shooting
adjectivenounverbcommon in dialogue
- //ˈʃuːtɪŋ//
Moving or growing quickly
adjective
- 1
Moving or growing quickly
Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
- 2
Of a pain, sudden and darting
I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
Etymology
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”).
noun
- 1
an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.
The Gun Violence Archive[…] defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people were killed or injured. As of late March, the Gun Violence Archive has counted 130 mass shootings in the United States this year.
- 2
the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.
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
- 6
filming
verb
- 1
Also a form of shootpresent participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projecting
Forms
- plural
- shootings