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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”).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -uːtɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: shoot‧ing

Verb

shooting

  1. present participle and gerund of shoot

Noun

shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)

  1. (countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
    Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
    • 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
      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.
    • 2023 March 28, Daniel Victor, “U.S. Mass Shootings in 2023: A Partial List”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 March 2023:
      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. (uncountable) the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
    • 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
      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. (Philippines, film, television) filming

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Adjective

shooting

  1. Moving or growing quickly
    Synonym: darting
    Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
  2. Of a pain, sudden and darting
    Synonym: splitting
    I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.

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Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

Noun

shooting m (plural shootings)

  1. shoot, shooting (all senses)

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