shooting

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

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• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -uːtɪŋ
• Hyphenation: shoot‧ing

shooting

1. present participle of shoot

• crap shooting
• shooting script
• shooting star

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

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

• hootings, soothing

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• IPA^(key): /ʃu.tiŋ/

shooting m (plural shootings)

1. shoot, shooting (all senses)