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Throwing vs Shooting - What's the difference?

throwing | shooting |

As verbs the difference between throwing and shooting

is that throwing is present participle of lang=en while shooting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between throwing and shooting

is that throwing is the act by which something is thrown while shooting is an instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.

throwing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is thrown.
  • * 1909 , Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party
  • The process of making ceramic ware on the potter's wheel

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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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