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Definition of Shooting

1. Noun. The act of firing a projectile. "His shooting was slow but accurate"

2. Noun. Killing someone by gunfire. "When the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

Definition of Shooting

1. n. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.

2. a. Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.

Definition of Shooting

1. Verb. (present participle of shoot) ¹

2. Noun. An instance of shooting (a person) with a gun. ¹

3. Noun. The sport or activity of firing a gun. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shooting

1. the act of one that shoots [n -S]

Medical Definition of Shooting

1. Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting. Shooting board, a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true. Shooting box, a small house in the country for use in the shooting season. Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms. Shooting iron, a firearm. Shooting star. A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, called also falling star. Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. at certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids. A tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shooting

shoot the moon shoot through shoot through like a Bondi tram shoot up shootable shootaround shootarounds shootdown shootdowns shooted

shooter shooters shooteth shootin' shooting (current term) shooting-iron shooting-spree shooting box shooting brake shooting circle

shooting circles shooting galleries shooting gallery shooting guard shooting guards shooting iron shooting lodge shooting one's load shooting preserve

Literary usage of Shooting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sportby C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"3635 Lancaster (Г.) Illustrated treatise on art of shooting. ... killing of game — shooting pigeons and breaking. In retrievers. Illustr. p. 8°. 1892. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"EIG GAME shooting. THE volumes on Big Game shooting in the " Badminton Library " are perhaps the most generally attractive of the series. ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"He died on Monday after the shooting on Saturday. ... had not heard anything against him until the other shooting affair, which occurred six months ago. ..."

4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"shooting —Continued Whiplash crack and bullet sound waves. HP Maxim, il Sci Am 113:221 S 11 '15 Why the native Is a poor shot. C: Duncan. ..."

5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"1 shooting la the Early Days, from 1863 to 1919. By Charles Morland Carter. St. Joseph. Missouri. December. 1919. Printed for Private Distribution. ..."

6. Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens by Camille Flammarion (1894)
"A lesson as profound as unexpected, the shooting star itself does not glide ... This perpetual addition of shooting stars is not without importance to our ..."

7. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"This measure — though doubtless unintentionally — served The shooting to encourage the soldiery in shooting of citizens. down peaceful citizens, ..."

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