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Shooting vs Hooting - What's the difference?

shooting | hooting |

As verbs the difference between shooting and hooting

is that shooting is while hooting is .

As nouns the difference between shooting and hooting

is that shooting is (countable) an instance of shooting (a person) with a gun while hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.

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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    hooting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Franklin, title=The Journey to the Polar Sea, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Washington Irving, title=Bracebridge Hall, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification. }}