different between photography vs shooting

English

Etymology

From French photographie. Surface etymology is photo- +? -graphy, together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines", "drawing". From ????? (ph?tós, “of light”, genitive), and ????? (gráph?, “I write”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??t????fi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??t????fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi
• Hyphenation: pho?tog?ra?phy

Noun

photography (usually uncountable, plural photographies)

1. The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
2. The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• phagotrophy

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)