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It may be the basis of wishful thinking
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shooting
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) An instance of shooting (a person) with a gun. 2 (context uncountable English) The sport or activity of fire a gun. 3 The act of one who, or that which, shoots. 4 A sensation of darting pain. vb. (present participle of shoot ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shooting \Shoot"ing\, n. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. A sensation ...
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In association football , shooting is a specialized kicking technique mainly used by forwards . The purpose of shooting is to get the ball past the goal line (usually beating the goalkeeper in the process), though some shots may be made in order to win ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of firing a projectile; "his shooting was slow but accurate" [syn: shot ] killing someone by gunfire; "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"
Usage examples of shooting.
And the fellers acrost the street hollered and started shooting at both of us.
We got arrested shooting them off in a park and I had to sell off some shares of my old Mass Anal stock to pay the fine.
I flipped the med with my nose so that its explosive injector sleeve faced up, then fell on my face, shooting the antivenin into my numb cheek.
When the berserker launch vehicle came shooting up out of that peculiar background, it flew past his scoutship before either he or his autopilot could react effectively, coming so close, within a few kilometers, that Pike instinctively recoiled, as from an imminent collision.
There was lawn bowling, battledore and shuttlecock, archery, and even target shooting.
Is that ship some kind of automatic weapon gone berserk, shooting around the Galaxy exterminating what it calls badlife?
On another occasion I had helped the Minids outlast a siege of giant hyenas by reciting a story and obediently shooting one of the besiegers with my besottedness to wholesale ingestion by a leopard.
Fortunately we have plenty of ammunition and the place is thick with game, so that those of the men who remain strong can kill all the food we want, even shooting on foot, and we women have made a great quantity of biltong by salting flesh and drying it in the sun.
For one thing, I could see now that his blotter was covered with scribbles: doodles, telephone numbers, what looked like case numbers, cartoon dogs and cats in various poses, appointments, names and addresses, drawings of cars with flames shooting from the tailpipes.
Look at the things he appeals to in you, Sarah Boothall the flash and dazzle of a shooting star.
It used to be open all winter, for people came for the bouquetin shooting?
Turanian tide receded somewhat farther, not quite out of bowshot but far enough so that the archers above ceased shooting.
The humpback led the retreat, bending low, for there was still shooting.
I, Malemute Kid, give you my word--and you know what that meansthat the man who is not shot stretches rope within ten minutes after the shooting.
Horst men stopped shooting and throwing hand grenades into the mangrove creek.