shooting

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Police said the shooting was the result of an argument that began at L & J Nightclub on the 4000 block of Ayers Street.

View all »
Definitions (12)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (8)

  1. The act of one who shoots. The act or practice of discharging missile weapons. Thei satte and Iaped, and pleyed with hym alle to-geder; and of the shetynge that thei hadde seyn, and of the wordes that he hadde seide to the kynge. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 170. Our king hath provided a shooting match. Robin Hoods Progress to Nottingham (Child's Ballads, [V. 291).
  2. Especially, at the present day, the killing of game with firearms; gunning. Some love a concert, or a race; And others shooting, and the chase. Cowper, Love of the World Reproved.
  3. A right, purchased or conferred, to kill game with firearms, especially within certain limits. [Great Britain.] As long as he lived, the shooting should be Mr. Palmer's, to use or to let, and should extend over the whole of the estate. George MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine, xli.
5 more from this dictionary »

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • "I'm not sure why they wouldn't have gone in there if the shooting was already done," said Kent Moyer, president of California-based World Protection Group, which offers protection services for corporate, commercial, industrial, entertainment, residential and retail clients. —  chron.com Chronicle
  • She said the shooting was a tragedy and investigations have been underway into the cause.
  • The Escambia County Sheriff's Office said the shooting was the result of an Ecstasy deal that went bad. —  PNJ - News
  • The letter claimed the shooting was the result of years of harassment from authorities. —  News Channel 9: Local News
  • Hughes, who has said the shooting was accidental, had been caring for his daughters since her death. —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
More examples »
 

Tags

shooting hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 48 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

killing ·  bombings ·  assassinations ·  burnings ·  homicide ·  arson ·  beating ·  vandalism ·  kidnap ·  drownings ·  abduction ·  slayings

Used in the same contextWord Family

shooting:   shot ·  shoot ·  shoots
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Middle English shetynge, from Anglo-Saxon sceótung, verbal noun of sceótan, shoot: see shoot, v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Hear a sound »

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a day.

Recently looked up

assayed · WAYS · WAYNE · preponderance · gamma-ray

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence