Falling vs Shooting - What's the difference?
falling | shooting |
That falls or fall.
The action of the verb to fall .
* (Jeremy Taylor)
(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 verbs the difference between falling and shooting
is that falling is while shooting is .As nouns the difference between falling and shooting
is that falling is the action of the verb to fall while shooting is (countable) an instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.As an adjective falling
is that falls or fall.falling
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- falling leaves
- falling prices
Derived terms
* deviation of a falling body * downfalling * everfalling * falling action * falling band, falling-band * falling collar * falling diphthong * falling-disease * falling-door * falling dunes * falling-evil * falling factorial * falling film evaporator * falling front or back * falling-gate * falling-hinge * falling houses * falling-ill * falling-in * falling knife * falling leaf * falling limb * falling-mold, falling-mould * falling palate * falling rhythm * falling-rising * falling ruff * falling scream * falling sequential product * falling sickness, falling-sickness * falling-sluice * falling sphere * falling star, falling-star * falling stone * falling tide * falling tone * falling weather, falling-weather * falling weight deflectometer * in-falling, infalling * rising-falling * tear-falling * wall-fallingNoun
(en-noun)- Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
Derived terms
* downfalling * falling axe * falling of the leaf * falling of the womb * falling rope * falling saw * falling-short * falling wedge * infalling * intelligent falling * off-falling * outfallingshooting
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