shooting

Meaning of shooting

verb

To launch a projectile.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
To act or achieve.
To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
To develop, move forward.
To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
The land shoots into a promontory.
To plane straight; to fit by planing.
To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.W
To shoot the moon.

noun

An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon.
Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.
I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms.
The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
the shooting of rays of light
A sensation of darting pain.
a shooting in one's head

Information about shooting

The plural form of shooting is: shootings.
Languages in which shooting is used:
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Hyphenation of shooting

shoot-ing

It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
shooting is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

shooting synonyms

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Anagrams of shooting

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