shooting shot | the act of firing a projectile, his shooting was slow but accurate |
skeet skeet shooting trapshooting | the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird |
shooting | killing someone by gunfire, when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies |
drive-by shooting | shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim |
wing shooting | shooting game birds that are flying (on the wing) |
crap shooting crapshoot crap game | playing craps |
analgesic anodyne painkiller pain pill | a medicine used to relieve pain |
pistol handgun side arm shooting iron | a firearm that is held and fired with one hand |
shooting brake | another name for a station wagon |
shooting gallery shooting range | an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice |
shooting gallery | a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin |
shooting lodge shooting box | a small country house used by hunters during the shooting season |
shooting stick | device that resembles a spiked walking stick but the top opens into a seat |
pain threshold | the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced, some people have much higher pain thresholds than do other people |
pain pain sensation painful sensation | a somatic sensation of acute discomfort, as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain |
phantom limb pain | pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb |
annoyance bother botheration pain infliction pain in the neck pain in the ass | something or someone that causes trouble, a source of unhappiness, washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer, a bit of a bother, he's not a friend, he's an infliction |
pleasure principle pleasure-pain principle pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
shooting script | the final detailed script for making a movie or TV program |
brag bragging crow crowing vaporing line-shooting gasconadea | an instance of boastful talk, his brag is worse than his fight, whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade |
pain painfulness | emotional distress, a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid, the pain of loneliness |
shooting preserve | a preserve on which hunting is permitted during certain months of the year |
pain pain in the neck nuisance | a bothersome annoying person, that kid is a terrible pain |
meteor shooting star | a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode |
pain unit | a unit measuring the intensity of pain |
pain hurting | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder, the patient developed severe pain and distension |
chest pain | pain in the chest |
lumbago lumbar pain | backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back, can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc |
labor pain | pain and discomfort associated with contractions of the uterus during labor |
referred pain | pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected, angina pectoris can cause referred pain in the left shoulder, pain in the right shoulder can be referred pain from gallbladder disease |
trouble ail pain | cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed |
pain anguish hurt | cause emotional anguish or make miserable, It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school |
sure as shooting | absolutely certain, it is sure as shooting that they will come |
pain-free unpainful | not accompanied by pain sensations, pain-free surgery |
surely certainly sure for sure for certain sure enough sure as shooting | definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'), the results are surely encouraging, she certainly is a hard worker, it's going to be a good day for sure, they are coming, for certain, they thought he had been killed sure enough, he'll win sure as shooting, they sure smell good, sure he'll come |