shooting
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Definitions ofshooting
- 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.
Example: "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.
- An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon.
Example: "Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week."
- The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.
Example: "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.
Example: "the shooting of rays of light"
- A sensation of darting pain.
Example: "a shooting in one's head"
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