different between hunting vs shooting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?nt??/
• Rhymes: -?nt??

Etymology 1

From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt +? -ing.

Noun

hunting (countable and uncountable, plural huntings)

1. The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.
   • 1797, Encyclopædia Britannica

     His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.

2. Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
3. (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
4. (telephony) The process of determining which of a group of telephone lines will receive a call.

Usage notes

Although hunting is technically a hypernym for fishing, fishing is generally not thought of or consider to be a type of hunting since it involves aquatic animals.

Derived terms

Related terms

• cynegetic

Descendants

• Korean: ?? (heonting, “flirting with strangers, pickup”)

Translations

Further reading

• hunting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English huntynge, alteration of earlier Middle English huntinde, huntende, huntand, present participle of hunten (“to hunt”), equivalent to hunt +? -ing.

Verb

hunting

1. present participle of hunt

Anagrams

• nuthing

English

Etymology

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutung?, equivalent to shoot +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?t??/
• Rhymes: -u?t??
• Hyphenation: shoot?ing

Verb

shooting

1. present participle of shoot

Derived terms

• crap shooting
• shooting script
• shooting star

Noun

shooting (usually uncountable, plural shootings)

1. (countable) An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon.

   Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.

2. (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.

   I take part in shooting at the local archery club.

3. A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms.
4. The act of one who, or that which, shoots.

   the shooting of rays of light

5. A sensation of darting pain.

   a shooting in one's head

Derived terms

• shooting box
• shooting brake
• shooting gallery
• shooting iron
• shooting lodge
• shooting preserve
• shooting range
• shooting seat
• shooting stick
• skeet shooting
• sure as shooting
• wing shooting

Translations

Anagrams

• hootings, soothing

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.ti?/

Noun

shooting m (plural shootings)

1. shoot, shooting (all senses)