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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



... never failed to obtain from her apples, pocket-money, and forgiveness for his numerous trespasses; and now in his early manhood he got privileges and immunities which were equally valuable. He was allowed a day or two's shooting in September; he schooled the squire's horses; got slips of trees out of the orchard and roots of flowers out of the garden; and had the fishing of the little river altogether in his own hands. He had undertaken ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... beauty will be sav'd by merit. O heresy in fair, fit for these days! A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. But come, the bow: now mercy goes to kill, And shooting well is then accounted ill. Thus will I save my credit in the shoot: Not wounding, pity would not let me do't; If wounding, then it was to show my skill, That more for praise than purpose meant to kill. And out of question so it is sometimes, Glory grows guilty of detested crimes, ...
— Love's Labour's Lost • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... legislators will perceive the necessity of adopting a strict military organization of all the able-bodied men in the State, and providing them with weapons, with whose use they should be encouraged to make themselves familiar—apart from military drill and instruction—by the institution of public shooting-matches for prizes. The absolute necessity of stringent laws, in order to secure the attainment of anything worthy the name of military education and discipline, has been clearly proved by the experience of the drill-clubs which ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... such event these volunteers should already know how to shoot; for if a soldier has the fighting edge, and ability to take care of himself in the open, his efficiency on the line of battle is almost directly Proportionate to excellence in marksmanship. We should establish shooting galleries in all the large public and military schools, should maintain national target ranges in different parts of the country, and should in every way encourage the formation of rifle clubs throughout all parts of the land. The ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... Her doctor told her to go to Egypt, but she says Egypt's impossible, just now, and if she doesn't like our West she says she'll amble on to Arizona, or try California for the winter." He looked away, and smiled rather wanly. "She's counting on the big game shooting ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer


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