shooting
Moving or growing quickly
Adjective 2 meanings
Moving or growing quickly
“Shooting beams of light played over the sea.”
Of a pain, sudden and darting
“I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.”
Noun 4 meanings
an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
“Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.”
the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
“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
“the shooting of rays of light”
Etymology
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”).
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SHOOTING at a glance
SHOOTING has 8 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (S 1 + H 4 + O 1 + O 1 + T 1 + I 1 + N 1 + G 2) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,691 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with shooting
All rhymes- BEING8
- GOING7
- SOMETHING15
- DURING8
- THING9
- DOING7
- HAVING13
- GETTING9
- LOOKING12
- ANYTHING15
- NOTHING11
- EVERYTHING20
One letter away
- SHOUTING12
- SHORTING12
- SCOOTING11
- SHOTTING12
- SNOOTING9
- SHOOLING12
- SMOOTING11
- WHOOTING15
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