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Shooting   /ʃˈutɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Shooting  n.  
1.
The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.
2.
A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
3.
A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.


verb
Shoot  v. t.  (past & past part. shot; pres. part. shooting)  
1.
To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object. "If you please To shoot an arrow that self way."
2.
To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; often with off; as, to shoot a gun. "The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another."
3.
To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object. "When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house."
4.
To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. "An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle." "A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores."
5.
To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud. "They shoot out the lip, they shake the head." "Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting."
6.
(Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing. "Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel."
7.
To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar. "She... shoots the Stygian sound."
8.
To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. "The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow."
To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. (Colloq.) "Are you not glad to be shot of him?"


Shoot  v. i.  (past & past part. shot; pres. part. shooting)  
1.
To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides. "The archers have... shot at him."
2.
To discharge a missile; said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
3.
To be shot or propelled forcibly; said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star. "There shot a streaming lamp along the sky."
4.
To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains. "Thy words shoot through my heart."
5.
To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. "These preachers make His head to shoot and ache."
6.
To germinate; to bud; to sprout. "Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth." "But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain."
7.
To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly. "Well shot in years he seemed." "Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot."
8.
To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify. "If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals."
9.
To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory. "There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses."
10.
(Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.


adjective
Shooting  adj.  Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Shooting board (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true.
Shooting box, a small house in the country for use in the shooting season.
Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms.
Shooting iron, a firearm. (Slang, U.S.)
Shooting star.
(a)
(Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, called also falling star. Note: 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.
(b)
(Bot.) The American cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip.
Shooting stick (Print.), a tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase.





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"Shooting" Quotes from Famous Books



... good horse, the Boers would much sooner have reached the end of their resources. That saying is true. Our chiefs assumed they were dealing with only honourable men, and so in this matter let themselves be sorely befooled. Some who surrendered to them one week, were busy shooting at them the next, with rifles that had been buried instead of being given up; and among those who thus proved false to their plighted troth were, alas, ministers of the ...
— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry
... Masters. I might call it heat-bolts, but it's probably partly electric and partly heat, not entirely either. You see, Masters, heat is energy, just like electricity and light. The energy these spheres shoot out is a mixture of energies. We can imagine a spark of electricity shooting out and striking a man like a bolt of lightning, but it's hard to visualize heat ...
— The Whispering Spheres • Russell Robert Winterbotham
... bulls or bears, even as he prefers throwing javelins at bulls or bears rather than at targets; the excitement is greater; the instinct is that of the soldiers of Spain and of France, who invariably preferred shooting at a valuable fresco like Sodoma's Christ, at Siena, or Lo Spagna's Madonna, at Spoleto, to practising against a mere worthless piece of wood. Such a man as Caesar Borgia is the nec plus ultra of a Renaissance villain; he takes, as all do not, absolute pleasure in evil as such. Yet Caesar ...
— Euphorion - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the - Renaissance - Vol. I • Vernon Lee
... and the private were shooting sharp words back and forth, and Fred was busy drawing cider, Isaac Lovejoy, the rogue of the company, was very busy with his ...
— Little Grandfather • Sophie May
... something from the long tale of barren hours; since to her all hours seemed most barren that were not quickened by his presence. Indeed, no Arctic winter could be colder and more devoid of light and life than this time of absence was to her, and, had it not been for the warm splendour of her hopes, shooting its beautiful promise in unreal gleams across the blackness of her horizon, she felt as though she must have frozen and died. For hope, elusive as she is, often bears a fairer outward mien than the realization to which she points, and, like a fond deceiver, serves to keep the heart alive till ...
— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard


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