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shooting gallery

N สนามยิงปืน  sa-nam-ying-puan

 

shooting star

N ดาวตก  ผี พุ่ง ใต้  meteor falling star fireball dao-tok

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHOOTING

ppr. Discharging, as fire-arms; driving or sending with violence; pushing out; protuberating; germinating; branching; glancing, as in pain.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SHOOTING

SHOOTING Shoot "ing, n.

 

1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.

 

2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting ), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.

 

3. A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.

 

SHOOTING

SHOOTING Shoot "ing, a.

 

Defn: 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. (a )(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. 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 1 th 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. (b ) (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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

shooting

shoot ing |ˈSHo͞otiNG ˈʃudɪŋ | noun the action or practice of shooting: the unprovoked shooting of civilians by soldiers | 20,000 fatal shootings a year. the sport or pastime of shooting with a gun. the right of shooting game over an area of land. an estate or other area rented to shoot over. adjective moving or growing quickly: shooting beams of light played over the sea. (of a pain ) sudden and piercing. PHRASES the whole shooting match informal everything: the whole shooting match is being computerized.

 

shooting board

shoot ing board noun a board with a step-shaped profile used to guide the motion of a plane relative to a workpiece to ensure accurate planing.

 

shooting box

shoot |ing box noun Brit. a lodge used by hunters in the shooting season.

 

shooting brake

shoot ing brake noun Brit. dated a station wagon.

 

shooting coat

shoot ing coat noun a padded waterproof coat with large pockets, worn when shooting game. archaic term for morning coat.

 

shooting gallery

shoot ing gal ler y |ˈʃudɪŋ ˌɡæl (ə )ri | noun a room or fairground booth used for recreational shooting at targets with guns or air guns. informal a place used for taking drugs, esp. injecting heroin.

 

shooting iron

shoot ing i ron noun informal a firearm.

 

shooting range

shoot ing range noun an area provided with targets for the controlled practice of shooting.

 

shooting script

shoot ing script noun a final movie or television script with scenes arranged in the order in which they will be filmed.

 

shooting star

shoot ing star 1 |ˈˌʃudɪŋ ˈˌstɑr | noun a small, rapidly moving meteor burning up on entering the earth's atmosphere.

 

shooting star

shoot ing star 2 |ˈˌʃudɪŋ ˈˌstɑr | noun a North American plant of the primrose family, with white, pink, or purple hanging flowers with backward curving petals. The flowers are carried above the leaves on slender stems and turn to face up following fertilization. [Genus Dodecatheon, family Primulaceae: several species, esp. D. meadia. ]

 

shooting stick

shoot ing stick |ˈʃudɪŋ ˌstɪk | noun a walking stick with a handle that unfolds to form a seat and a sharpened end that can be stuck firmly in the ground.

 

shooting war

shoot ing war noun a war in which there is armed conflict, as opposed to mere threats, propaganda, or sanctions.

 

Oxford Dictionary

shooting

shoot |ing |ˈʃuːtɪŋ | noun [ mass noun ] the action or practice of shooting: the unprovoked shooting of civilians by soldiers | [ count noun ] : 20,000 fatal shootings a year. the sport or pastime of shooting with a gun. the right of shooting game over an area of land. [ count noun ] an estate or other area rented to shoot over. adjective moving or growing quickly: shooting beams of light played over the sea. (of a pain ) sudden and piercing. PHRASES the whole shooting match informal everything: the whole shooting match is being computerized.

 

shooting board

shoot |ing board noun a board with a step-shaped profile used to guide the motion of a plane relative to a workpiece to ensure accurate planing.

 

shooting box

shoot |ing box noun Brit. a lodge used by hunters in the shooting season.

 

shooting brake

shoot |ing brake noun Brit. dated an estate car.

 

shooting coat

shoot |ing coat noun a padded waterproof coat with large pockets, worn when shooting game. archaic term for morning coat.

 

shooting gallery

shoot |ing gal |lery noun a room or fairground booth used for recreational shooting at targets with guns or airguns. N. Amer. informal a place used for taking drugs, especially injecting heroin.

 

shooting iron

shoot |ing iron noun informal, chiefly US a firearm.

 

shooting jacket

shoot |ing jacket noun another term for safari jacket.

 

shooting range

shoot |ing range noun an area provided with targets for the controlled practice of shooting.

 

shooting script

shoot ing script noun a final movie or television script with scenes arranged in the order in which they will be filmed.

 

shooting star

shooting star 1 noun 1 a small, rapidly moving meteor burning up on entering the earth's atmosphere. 2 a North American plant with white, pink, or purple hanging flowers with backward-curving petals. The flowers are carried above the leaves on slender stems and turn to face up following fertilization. Genus Dodecatheon, family Primulaceae.

 

shooting stick

shoot |ing stick noun a walking stick with a handle that unfolds to form a seat and a sharpened end which can be stuck firmly in the ground.

 

shooting war

shoot |ing war noun a war in which there is armed conflict as opposed to mere threats, propaganda, or sanctions.

 

Duden Dictionary

Shooting

Shoo ting Substantiv, Neutrum , das |ˈʃuːtɪŋ |das Shooting; Genitiv: des Shootings, Plural: die Shootings englisch shooting, zu: to shoot = schießen Kurzwort für: Fotoshooting

 

Shootingstar

Shoo ting star Substantiv, maskulin , der |ˈʃuːtɪŋstaːɐ̯ |der Shootingstar; Genitiv: des Shootingstars, Plural: die Shootingstars englisch shooting star, eigentlich = Sternschnuppe Person oder Sache, die schnell an die Spitze gelangt; Senkrechtstarter [in ]

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

shooting

sh ot ing 名詞 1 U C 射撃, 発射 .2 U ⦅主に英 ⦆銃猟 (権 ); C 猟場 .3 U (映画 写真の )撮影 .4 U C ずきずきする痛み .~́ b x ⦅英 ⦆狩猟小屋 .~́ br ke ⦅英 古 ⦆ステーションワゴン (estate car ).~́ g llery 射撃練習場 .~́ ron ⦅米俗 ⦆(ピストルなどの )小火器 .~́ m tch 射撃競技会 (!通例次の句で ) the whole shooting match 何もかも .~́ r nge 射撃練習場 .~́ st r 流星 ; 〘植 〙アメリカサクラソウ .~́ st ck 狩猟ステッキ 〘取っ手が開いて腰掛けられる 〙.~̀ w r 武力戦争 (cold war ).