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Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon. Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, surgerys, and guided missiles can be considered acts of shooting.

Related Definition

  1. discharge:

    v To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.

    v To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.

    v To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.

    v To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

    v To expel or let go.

    v To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.

    v (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).

    v To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.

    v (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.

    v (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.

    v To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.

    v To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).

    v (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.

    v To unload a ship or another means of transport.

    v To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.

    v To give forth; to emit or send out.

    v To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.

    v (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.

    v (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.

    n The act of expelling or letting go.

    n (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.

    n (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.

    n The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.

    n The process of removing the load borne by something.

    n The process of flowing out.

    n (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.

    n (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.

    n (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).

    n The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.


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