shooting (root: shoot)

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

shooting, n. 

•  The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.  [1913 Webster]
•  A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.  [1913 Webster]
•  A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.  [1913 Webster]

shooting, a. 

 Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.  [1913 Webster]
"Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

shooting, n. & adj.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of shooting.
2 a the right of shooting over an area of land. b an estate etc. rented to shoot over.
--adj. moving, growing, etc. quickly (a shooting pain in the arm).

Idiom

shooting-box Brit. a lodge used by sportsmen in the shooting-season. shooting-brake (or -break) Brit. an estate car. shooting-coat (or -jacket) a coat designed to be worn when shooting game. shooting-gallery a place used for shooting at targets with rifles etc. shooting-iron esp. US colloq. a firearm. shooting-range a ground with butts for rifle practice. shooting star a small meteor moving rapidly and burning up on entering the earth's atmosphere. shooting-stick a walking-stick with a foldable seat. shooting war a war in which there is shooting (opp. cold war, war of nerves etc.). the whole shooting match colloq. everything.

THESAURUS

shooting

acute, acute pain, afflictive, agonizing, antiaircraft fire, archery, atrocious, bane, beheading, bite, biting, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, boring pain, braining, burning, capital punishment, casting, charley horse, chase, chevy, chivy, chucking, coursing, cramp, cramping, cramps, crick, cross fire, crucifixion, cruel, curtain fire, cynegetics, darting pain, dealing death, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, destruction, destruction of life, direct fire, dispatch, distressing, dry fire, electrocution, euthanasia, excruciating, execution, extermination, falconry, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, flinging, flow of blood, fox hunting, fulgurant pain, fusillade, garrote, gassing, girdle pain, gnawing, gore, grave, griping, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunnery, gunning, gunplay, hanging, hard, harrowing, harsh, hawking, heaving, hemlock, high-angle fire, hitch, horizontal fire, hunt, hunting, hurling, hurtful, hurting, immolation, interdiction fire, jaculation, judicial murder, jumping pain, kill, killing, kink, knifelike, lancinating pain, lapidation, lobbing, machine-gun fire, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, mortar fire, musketry, necktie party, nip, painful, pang, paroxysm, paroxysmal, percussion fire, piercing, pinch, pistol fire, pitching, poignant, poisoning, prick, projection, pungent, racking, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire, rifle fire, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, seizure, severe, sharp, sharp pain, shellfire, shikar, shoot, shoot-out, shooting pain, skeet, skeet shooting, slaughter, slaying, slinging, spasm, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, sport, sporting, stab, stabbing, stabbing pain, stalking, still hunt, stinging, stitch, stoning, strangling, strangulation, taking of life, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, thrill, throes, throwing, time fire, tormen, tormenting, torturous, trajection, trapshooting, tweak, twinge, twitch, venery, vertical fire, wrench, zone fire

ROGET THESAURUS

shooting

Pursuit

N pursuit, pursuing, prosecution, pursuance, enterprise, business, adventure, quest, scramble, hue and cry, game, hobby, still-hunt, chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing, venation, venery, fox chase, sport, sporting, shooting, angling, fishing, hawking, shikar (Geog loc:India), pursuer, hunter, huntsman, shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod, hound, pursuing, in quest of, in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit, on the scent, in pursuance of, after, Int, tallyho!, yoicks!, soho!.

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.

Physical Pain

N physical pain, pain, suffering, sufferance, suffrance, bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain, mental suffering, dolour, ache, aching, smart, shoot, shooting, twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris, hurt, cut, sore, soreness, discomfort, malaise, cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica, tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis, spasm, cramp, nightmare, ephialtes, crick, stitch, thrill, convulsion, throe, throb, pang, colic, kink, sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain, excruciating pain, anguish, agony, torment, torture, rack, cruciation, crucifixion, martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection, in pain, in a state of pain, pained, gouty, podagric, torminous, painful, aching, sore, raw, Special Sensation (1) Touch.