Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. off
  2. young
  3. new
  4. and
  5. green
  6. leading
  7. main
  8. leafy
  9. long
  10. single

Hypernyms (Type of)

  1. cast
  2. fire
  3. shot
  4. smart
  5. race
  6. hit
  7. eat
  8. throw
  9. record
  10. project

What Google Knows

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. shoot:

    v To launch a projectile.

    v (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).

    v (transitive) To fire (a projectile).

    v (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).

    v (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.

    v (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.

    v (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.

    v (gambling) To throw dice.

    v (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.

    v (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.

    v (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.

    v (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.

    v (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.

    v (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.

    v (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.

    v To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    v (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.

    v To go over or pass quickly through.

    v (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.

    v (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.

    v (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

    v (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

    v To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

    v (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.

    v (sports) To act or achieve.

    v (wrestling) To lunge.

    v (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).

    v To make the stated score.

    v (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).

    v (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.

    v To develop, move forward.

    v To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

    v To grow; to advance.

    v (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.

    v (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.

    v To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.

    v To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.

    v (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

    v To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)

    v (card games) To shoot the moon.

    v (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).

    v To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.

    n The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

    n A photography session.

    n A hunt or shooting competition.

    n (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

    n The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

    n A rush of water; a rapid.

    n (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

    n A shoat; a young pig.

    n (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

    n An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.

    n (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

    n A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.


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