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Shootout vs Shooting - What's the difference?

shootout | shooting |

As nouns the difference between shootout and shooting

is that shootout is a decisive battle, especially a gunfight while shooting is (countable) an instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.

As a verb shooting is

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shootout

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A decisive battle, especially a gunfight.
  • (football) penalty shootout
  • (ice hockey) a series of penalty shots during which a tied game is resolved.

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    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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