SHOOTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shooter mean? 

• SHOOTER (noun)
  The noun SHOOTER has 5 senses:

1. a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles

2. a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)

3. a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps

4. (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket)

5. a professional killer who uses a gun

  Familiarity information: SHOOTER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOOTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

shooter; taw

Hypernyms ("shooter" is a kind of...):

marble (a small ball of glass that is used in various games)

Derivation:

shoot (throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

shooter; shot

Context example:

a poor shooter

Hypernyms ("shooter" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shooter"):

crack shot; marksman; sharpshooter (someone skilled in shooting)

gun; gunman (a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability))

trapshooter (a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap)

Derivation:

shoot (fire a shot)

shoot (hit with a missile from a weapon)

shoot (kill by firing a missile)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A gambler who throws dice in the game of craps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

crap-shooter; shooter

Hypernyms ("shooter" is a kind of...):

gambler (a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events)

Derivation:

shoot (throw dice, as in a crap game)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shooter" is a kind of...):

participant; player (a person who participates in or is skilled at some game)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Derivation:

shoot (throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A professional killer who uses a gun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gun; gun for hire; gunman; gunslinger; hired gun; hit man; hitman; shooter; torpedo; triggerman

Hypernyms ("shooter" is a kind of...):

liquidator; manslayer; murderer (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))

Derivation:

shoot (kill by firing a missile)

 Context examples 

Follow-up observations using the X-shooter instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope confirmed the enormous distance to A2744_YD4.

(Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars, ESO)

X-shooter in particular took a series of spectra from the ultraviolet to the near infrared.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

To get a better idea of the properties of this unusual star, named WDJ0914+1914, the team analysed it with the X-shooter instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in the Chilean Atacama Desert.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

A UK-led group of European astronomers used the MUSE and X-shooter instruments on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile to study an ongoing collision between two galaxies, known collectively as IRAS F23128-5919, that lie around 600 million light-years from Earth.

(Stars Born in Winds from Supermassive Black Holes, ESO)

According to the researchers, the exoplanet now found with the help of ESO’s X-shooter orbits the white dwarf at a distance of only 10 million kilometres, or 15 times the solar radius, which would have been deep inside the red giant.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

Because of the limited understanding of these new phenomena and other complexities in the spectra that the VLT’s X-shooter took of the explosion, astronomers had not been able to identify individual elements until now.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

By studying the fine details in the spectra taken by ESO’s X-shooter, the team discovered that these elements were in a disc of gas swirling into the white dwarf, and not coming from the star itself.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)