different between shooting vs killing

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)

English

Etymology

From kill +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?l.??/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Verb

killing

1. present participle of kill

   This work is killing me.

Adjective

killing (comparative more killing, superlative most killing)

1. That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
2. Devastatingly attractive.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 5:

     He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace ...

3. That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 471:

     Livia found her ‘killing’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well.

Translations

Noun

killing (countable and uncountable, plural killings)

1. An instance of someone being killed.
2. (informal, usually as make a killing) A large amount of money.

   He made a killing on the stock market.

Derived terms

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse ketlingr, diminutive form of ketta (“cat”). Cognate with Swedish källing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kilen?/, [?k?ile?]

Noun

killing c (singular definite killingen, plural indefinite killinger)

1. kitten (young cat)
2. leveret (young hare)

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse kiðlingr.

Noun

killing m (definite singular killingen, indefinite plural killinger, definite plural killingene)

1. a goatling

Derived terms

• geitekilling

References

• “killing” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse kiðlingr.

Noun

killing m (definite singular killingen, indefinite plural killingar, definite plural killingane)

1. a goatling

Derived terms

• geitekilling

References

• “killing” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish kiþlinger, from Old Norse kiðlingr, corresponding to kid (now fawn, before all baby animals) +? -ling (diminutive suffix).

Noun

killing c

1. a kid (young goat)

Declension

See also

• källing