SHOOTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shooting mean? 

• SHOOTING (noun)
  The noun SHOOTING has 2 senses:

1. the act of firing a projectile

2. killing someone by gunfire

  Familiarity information: SHOOTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOOTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of firing a projectile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shooting; shot

Context example:

his shooting was slow but accurate

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

actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)

Meronyms (parts of "shooting"):

fire control (preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target)

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

shoot (the act of shooting at targets)

countershot (a return shot; a retaliatory shot)

discharge; firing; firing off (the act of discharging a gun)

gunfire; gunshot (the act of shooting a gun)

headshot (a shot aimed at a person's head)

shellfire (shooting artillery shells)

potshot (a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter))

Derivation:

shoot (fire a shot)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Killing someone by gunfire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies

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

homicide (the killing of a human being by another human being)

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

drive-by killing (homicide committed by shooting from a moving automobile)

drive-by shooting (shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim)

wing shooting (shooting game birds that are flying (on the wing))

Derivation:

shoot (kill by firing a missile)

 Context examples 

Hawkins, neither you nor I are much account at the shooting; we'll stand by to load and bear a hand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The fellow would take the boat and my father’s best gun and treat himself to little shooting trips.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had no notion but he would go a-shooting, or something or other, and not disturb us with his company.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It may interest you to know that I succeeded in shooting that particular specimen.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Good shooting, i' faith rare shooting!” said Black Simon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes had lit a cigarette and was shooting little darting glances all over the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I cannot bear to think of it being done. It is so directly brutal, you know; so different from shooting them.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The bottom, or under surface, which appears to those who view it below, is one even regular plate of adamant, shooting up to the height of about two hundred yards.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If they fire, Watson, have no compunction about shooting them down.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any submerged feelings will come out like a geyser, shooting skyward at full force.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)