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Buying vs Shooting - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between buying and shooting

is that buying is present participle of lang=en while shooting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between buying and shooting

is that buying is the act of making a purchase while shooting is an instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.

buying

English

(wikipedia buying)

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * impulse buying * panic buying

    Noun

  • The act of making a purchase.
    • buyings and sellings

    shooting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * crap shooting * shooting script * shooting star

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (countable) An instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.
    • Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
  • (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun.
  • The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
    • the shooting''' of an archery club; the '''shooting of rays of light
  • A sensation of darting pain.
    • a shooting in one's head

    Derived terms

    * shooting brake * shooting gallery * shooting iron * shooting lodge * shooting preserve * shooting range * shooting stick * skeet shooting * sure as shooting * wing shooting

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