shootingとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
• 韻: -uːtɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: shoot‧ing

動詞

shooting

1. present participle of shoot

派生語

• crap shooting
• shooting script
• shooting star

名詞

shooting (usually uncountable, 複数形 shootings)

1. (countable) An instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon.
   • 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:

     Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.

   Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.

2. (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.
   • 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:

     Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.

   I take part in shooting at the local archery club.

3. A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms.
4. The act of one who, or that which, shoots.

   the shooting of rays of light

5. A sensation of darting pain.

   a shooting in one's head

派生語

• shooting box
• shooting brake
• shooting gallery
• shooting iron
• shooting lodge
• shooting preserve
• shooting range
• shooting seat
• shooting stick
• skeet shooting
• sure as shooting
• wing shooting

形容詞

shooting

1. Moving or growing quickly.

   Shooting beams of light played over the sea.

2. Of a pain, sudden and darting.

   I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.