Crossword clues for shooting
shooting
- Make a film or photograph of something
- Fire a shot
- Kill by firing a missile
- Killing by gunfire
- Hit with a missile from a weapon
- Firing honest, outstanding intellectuals often ends disastrously
- Kind of iron
- Like some pains
- Set activity
- One making meteoric progress at Bisley, say?
- Go to Paris in good year after filming sporting facility
- Scottish king worried about old country seat?
- Clear out country house storing metal targets here
- Place for firing at targets
- Falling meteors killing actors
- It may be the basis of wishful thinking
- As in games involving a ball such as golf, hockey, etc.
- Record on photographic film
- Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- Spend frivolously and unwisely
- Produce buds, branches, or germinate
- Give an injection to
- Hit a ball
- The act of firing a projectile
- Of plants
- Play a shot
- Move quickly and violently
- Run or move very quickly or hastily
- Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shoot \Shoot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shot; p. pr. & vb. n. Shooting. The old participle Shotten is obsolete. See Shotten.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i., sce['o]tan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie?en, OHG. sciozan, Icel. skj?ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump. [root]159. Cf. Scot a contribution, Scout to reject, Scud, Scuttle, v. i., Shot, Sheet, Shut, Shuttle, Skittish, Skittles.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
--Beau. & Fl.A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores.
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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.
--Ps. xxii. 7.Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
--Tennyson.To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] ``Are you not glad to be shot of him?''
--Sir W. Scott.
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 of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
Shooting \Shoot"ing\, a. 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. --Prof. Wilson. Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms. Shooting iron, a firearm. [Slang, U.S.] Shooting star.
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(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.
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(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.
--Hansard.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scotung, verbal noun from shoot (v.). Sports sense from 1885; film camera sense by 1920. Shooting gallery is from 1836; shooting match is from 1750. Shooting star first recorded 1590s (shoot (v.) with reference to meteors is from late 13c.).
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 English)
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"
Wikipedia
Shooting is the act or process of discharging firearms or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets, and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman. Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field in hunting, in shooting sports, or in combat.
Shooting is the act or process of firing of a projectile weapon.
Shooting may also refer to:
Shooting is an approach in bridge to the bidding or play of a hand which aims for a favorable result by making a choice that is slightly against the odds. A player might decide to shoot toward the end of a game, when he judges that he needs to win, not just average-plus results.
Shooting is generally considered an ethical maneuver when it is used sparingly in an attempt to improve one's score. It is regarded as contrary to the if a player, perhaps angry with his partner, starts bidding and playing every hand in ways that disregard winning technique.
In contrast, a player who is shooting makes a bid or play that is only slightly inferior, in the hope that the cards lie in such a way that the normal, percentage action will lose. In the long run, even slightly inferior actions lose to the better bid or play, so it is not sensible to shoot unless the only hope left is an unusual situation, such as a 4-1 instead of a 3-2 trump break, or a normal 3NT contract that goes down on normal play.
Although it is possible to shoot in either the bidding or the play, authorities disagree on whether it is wise to do so in the bidding. For example, Marshall Miles has written that "There is no way to estimate the effects of weird bidding on a particular hand, and it is almost impossible to start shooting in the bidding without having partnership confidence suffer."
On the other hand, if shooting, Hugh Kelsey recommends a pass with over RHO's opening bid of 1. Kelsey notes that everyone else will double, because in the long run it's the best call. But if LHO has a good redouble, or if the takeout double leads to an unmakeable game, or if declarer misguesses because you pass, then you might get a very good result (more often, you'll get a bottom). Notice that Kelsey's suggestion conforms to the basic notion of taking an action that is slightly against the odds. To pass with a much stronger hand would be far too extreme an action.
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 corners or force the keeper to deflect the ball into the path of a teammate - this will only be the case if scoring directly from the shot seems unlikely.
Shooting is easily the most common way for goals to be scored. It is done using the feet; using the head, i.e. heading the ball, is the second most common way in which goals are scored.
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.