shootingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 shoting, schoting, from 古期英語 scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

発音

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

動詞

shooting

1. present participle and gerund of shoot

名詞

shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)

1. (countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon

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

   • 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.

   • 2023 March 28, Daniel Victor, “U.S. Mass Shootings in 2023: A Partial List”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-03-28:

     The Gun Violence Archive […] defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people were killed or injured.
     As of late March, the Gun Violence Archive has counted 130 mass shootings in the United States this year.

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

6. (Philippines, film, television) filming

派生語

形容詞

shooting

1. Moving or growing quickly

   Synonym: darting

   Shooting beams of light played over the sea.

2. Of a pain, sudden and darting

   Synonym: splitting

   I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.

派生語

アナグラム

• hootings, soothing