What is the meaning of shooting?

noun

• The act of firing a projectile.
  • usage: "his shooting was slow but accurate"
  • synonyms: shot
• Killing someone by gunfire.
  • usage: "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

verb

• Hit with a missile from a weapon.
  • synonyms: shoot, hit, pip
• Kill by firing a missile.
  • synonyms: shoot, pip
• Fire a shot.
  • usage: "the gunman blasted away"
  • synonyms: blast, shoot
• Make a film or photograph of something.
  • usage: "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
  • synonyms: film, shoot, take
• Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.
  • usage: "shoot a glance"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Run or move very quickly or hastily.
  • usage: "She dashed into the yard"
  • synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot
• Move quickly and violently.
  • usage: "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
  • synonyms: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck
• Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective.
  • usage: "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Record on photographic film.
  • usage: "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
  • synonyms: photograph, snap, shoot
• Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.
  • usage: "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Cause a sharp and sudden pain in.
  • usage: "The pain shot up her leg"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing.
  • usage: "inject hydrogen into the balloon"
  • synonyms: inject, shoot
• Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors.
  • usage: "shoot cloth"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Throw dice, as in a crap game.
  • synonyms: shoot
• Spend frivolously and unwisely.
  • usage: "Fritter away one's inheritance"
  • synonyms: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away
• Score.
  • usage: "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Utter fast and forcefully.
  • usage: "She shot back an answer"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Measure the altitude of by using a sextant.
  • usage: "shoot a star"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Produce buds, branches, or germinate.
  • usage: "the potatoes sprouted"
  • synonyms: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout
• Give an injection to.
  • usage: "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"
  • synonyms: inject, shoot