shooting

Meaning

present participle and gerund of shoot

shooting

firing

hunting

filming

hunt

fire

gunfire

shot

chase

sniping

gunshot

fusillade

hurling

marksmanship

gunning

sprouting

shootout

gunfight

casting

flinging

catapult

discharge

ejaculation

emitting

injecting

injection

assassination

killing

field sport

quivering

archer

shooter

letting fly

camerawork

germinating

stabbing

launching

shoot

venery

venison

military execution

musketry

standing

warrior

moo

firing off

shoot-out

infantry

rifle

fighting

firefight

execution

penalty shootout

Frequency

Hyphenated as

shoot‧ing

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

Cognate with German

Erschießung

New

shoot

1. To launch a projectile.
2. To launch a projectile.
3. To launch a projectile.
4. To launch a projectile.
5. To launch a projectile.
6. To launch a projectile.
7. To launch a projectile.
8. (slang) To launch a projectile.
9. To launch a projectile.
10. To launch a projectile.
11. To launch a projectile.
12. To launch a projectile.
13. To launch a projectile.
14. To launch a projectile.
15. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
16. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
17. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
18. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
19. (obsolete) To move or act quickly or suddenly.
20. (obsolete) To move or act quickly or suddenly.
21. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
22. (informal) To move or act quickly or suddenly.
23. To act or achieve.
24. To act or achieve.
25. To act or achieve.
26. To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
27. (colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
28. To develop, move forward.
29. To develop, move forward.
30. To develop, move forward.
31. To develop, move forward.
32. To develop, move forward.
33. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
34. To plane straight; to fit by planing.
35. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
36. To shoot the moon.
37. To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
38. To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.

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