Hunting vs Shooting - What's the difference?
hunting | shooting |
Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.
* 1797 , Encyclopædia Britannica
Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
(engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
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(countable) An instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.
(uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun.
The act of one who, or that which, shoots.
A sensation of darting pain.
As nouns the difference between hunting and shooting
is that hunting is chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food while shooting is an instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.As verbs the difference between hunting and shooting
is that hunting is present participle of lang=en while shooting is present participle of lang=en.hunting
English
Noun
- His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.
See also
*Verb
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Derived terms
* hunting ground * job-hunting * house-huntingSee also
* ("hunting" on Wikipedia)shooting
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* crap shooting * shooting script * shooting starNoun
(en-noun)- Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
- the shooting''' of an archery club; the '''shooting of rays of light
- a shooting in one's head