shoot

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Shooting means:

  • in the physical sense a process described in ballistics
  • the use of firearms in the sense of the activity of shooting
  • the firing of a shot in the legal and criminal sense
  • shooting sport, see sport shooting
  • Blasting in mining, see Shooting (mining)
  • Firing in pyrotechnics
  • the production of cores for casting molds, see core shooting
  • in medicine, among other things, suddenly “shooting in” (stabbing, lancing) pain; see lumbago
  • the supercritically fast form of (water) flow in open channels
  • The Shooting , Monte Hellman American western (1966)
  • the mostly undesirable rapid growth of one or more long, thin shoots in plants. Possible reasons: formation of flowers in lettuce, lack of light or nutrients in seedlings, heavy pruning in trees.

Shooting , in particular:

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Wiktionary: Shooting  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: shoot  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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  • Shot (disambiguation)