shooting

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of firing a projectile

   My shooting was slow but accurate.

2. 2
   noun

   killing someone by gunfire

   when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies

3. 3
   adj

   Moving or growing quickly

   Shooting beams of light played over the sea.

4. 4
   adj

   Of a pain, sudden and darting

   I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.

5. 5
   noun

   an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon

   Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   the act of one who, or that which, shoots

   the shooting of rays of light

8. 8
   noun

   a sensation of darting pain

   a shooting in one's head

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”).