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Shooting vs Gunning - What's the difference?

shooting | gunning |

As verbs the difference between shooting and gunning

is that shooting is while gunning is .

As nouns the difference between shooting and gunning

is that shooting is (countable) an instance of shooting (a person) with a gun while gunning is the act of firing a gun.

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

    Anagrams

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    gunning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of firing a gun.
  • * 2011 , Gary Ferraro, ?Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective (page 112)
    • Philippe Bourgois witnessed shootings, muggings, bombings, machine-gunnings , fire bombings, and numerous fistfights, and he was manhandled by New York City police who mistook him for a drug dealer.