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shooting
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
- present participle of shoot
Derived terms
- crap shooting
- shooting script
- shooting star
Noun
shooting (usually uncountable, plural shootings)
- (countable) An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon.
- Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
- (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.
- I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
- A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms.
- The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
- the shooting of rays of light
- 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)
- shoot, shooting (all senses)
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gunning
English
Verb
gunning
- present participle of gun
Noun
gunning (plural gunnings)
- The act of firing a gun.
- 2011, Gary Ferraro, Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective (page 112)
- Philippe Bourgois […] witnessed shootings, muggings, bombings, machine-gunnings, fire bombings, and numerous fistfights, and he was manhandled by New York City police who mistook him for a drug dealer.
- 2011, Gary Ferraro, Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective (page 112)
Dutch
Etymology
From gunnen +? -ing.
Noun
gunning f (plural gunningen)
- the act of awarding or allocating a project to a bidder
Related terms
- vergunning
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