shooting
Moving or growing quicklyMoving or growing quickly
» The police was investigating a series of shootings.
Значение
значений: 2Moving or growing quickly
Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
Of a pain, sudden and darting
I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
Примеры
предложений: 12The police was investigating a series of shootings.
Why are 98% of mass shootings committed by men?
Tom's fear of school shootings caused him to homeschool his children.
Mass shootings require a high amount of executive function to plan and execute.
Mentally ill people lack the executive function to plan and carry out mass shootings.
Происхождение
From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-GFrom Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source