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PRONUNCIATION OF SHOOTING-DOWN

shooting-down  [ˈʃuːtɪŋˈdaʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHOOTING-DOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shooting-Down is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHOOTING-DOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of shooting-down in the English dictionary

The definition of shooting-down in the dictionary is fatal shooting. Other definition of shooting-down is striking down by a bullet or missile.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHOOTING-DOWN


adown
əˈdaʊn
breakdown
ˈbreɪkˌdaʊn
countdown
ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn
down
daʊn
lie-down
ˌlaɪˈdaʊn
meltdown
ˈmɛltˌdaʊn
pared-down
ˌpeədˈdaʊn
Portadown
ˌpɔːtəˈdaʊn
put-down
ˈpʊtdaʊn
run-down
ˌrʌnˈdaʊn
scaled-down
ˌskeɪldˈdaʊn
showdown
ˈʃəʊˌdaʊn
shutdown
ˈʃʌtˌdaʊn
sit-down
ˈsɪtdaʊn
smackdown
ˈsmækˌdaʊn
takedown
ˈteɪkdaʊn
touchdown
ˈtʌtʃˌdaʊn
upside-down
ˌʌpsaɪdˈdaʊn
upsideowne
ˌʌpsaɪˈdaʊn
watered-down
ˌwɔːtədˈdaʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHOOTING-DOWN

shooter
shootie
shooting
shooting box
shooting brake
shooting gallery
shooting guard
shooting incident
shooting iron
shooting lodge
shooting match
shooting party
shooting practice
shooting range
shooting script
shooting spree
shooting star
shooting stick
shooting war
shootist

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHOOTING-DOWN

broken-down
button-down
buttoned-down
climb-down
close-down
dressing-down
go down
hand-me-down
low-down
one-down
pull-down
reach-me-down
right-down
sponge-down
step-down
stripped-down
swan´s-down
top-down
trickle-down
up-and-down
warm-down

Synonyms and antonyms of shooting-down in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shooting-down» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHOOTING-DOWN

Find out the translation of shooting-down to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shooting-down from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shooting-down» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

击落
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

derribo
570 millions of speakers

English

shooting-down
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शूटिंग से नीचे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اسقاط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

съемки вниз
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tiro -down
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শুটিং-ডাউন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tir vers le bas
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menembak jatuh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abschuß
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

撮影ダウン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

촬영 다운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shooting-mudhun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chụp xuống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

படப்பிடிப்பு-கீழே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शूटिंग-डाउन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Çekim aşağı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tiro -down
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

strzelanie w dół
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зйомки вниз
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fotografiere în jos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατάρριψης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skiet -down
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skytte - down
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skyting - ned
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shooting-down

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOOTING-DOWN»

The term «shooting-down» is regularly used and occupies the 93.841 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOOTING-DOWN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «shooting-down» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «shooting-down» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shooting-down

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOOTING-DOWN»

Discover the use of shooting-down in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shooting-down and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shooting Down the MDGs: How irresponsible arms transfers ...
Nightingale Katherine. Like Indonesia, Nigeria is still coming to terms with a lengthy period of military-dominated government, during which there were no effective checks on arms spending. Box 8: Nigeria Even after Nigeria's return to ...
Nightingale Katherine
2
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control ...
For this third edition, Lott draws on an additional ten years of data—including provocative analysis of the effects of gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C—that brings the book fully up to date and further bolsters its central ...
John R. Lott, 2013
3
Christopher Grey's Lighting Techniques for Beauty and ...
Shooting down or shooting up are angles many of us don't use. Why not? They're dramatic or fun, depending on how they're approached. They're also difficult because you may have to angle yourself in an uncomfortable position to get what  ...
Christopher Grey, 2010
4
In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century
UN Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick Excoriates the Soviet Union for Shooting Down a Passenger Plane, Killing Everyone On Board. "They are the focus of evil in the modern world" President Reagan bluntly exclaimed of the Soviet Union ...
Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll, 2000
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Belgravia
It was that deadly encounter in Washington city, in which a certain hot-headed lawyer named Daniel Sickles had shot to death a person named Key, the paramour of his wife. I remember that the locution of ' shooting down' arose in our talk ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1870
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Belgravia: A London Magazine
It was that deadly encounter in Washington city, in which a certain hot-headed lawyer named Darnel Sickles had shot to death a person named Key, the paramour of his wife. I remember that the locution of c shooting down' arose in our talk ...
‎1870
7
Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the ...
I don't want to deny our responsibility in the shooting down of the plane. On the contrary, it's possible that our responsibility may have been greater than that of the Soviets. So we are not trying to blame the Soviets for having brought down the ...
James G. Blight, Bruce J. Allyn, David A. Welch, 2002
8
Soviet MiG-15 Aces of the Korean War
Fighter pilots from 139th GvIAP were credited with shooting down three 'F-80s' and an '¥-47', although the only Navy aircraft lost according to official records was a Skyraider from VA-35 that crashed while landing aboard USS Ieyte. But 1 39th  ...
Leonid Krylov, 2012
9
Air Aces: The Lives and Times of Twelve Canadian Fighter Pilots
In just three weeks he had destroyed ten rockets, saving dozens — if not hundreds — of lives. Bannock admits today that shooting down the V-ls gave him a lot of satisfaction. "Your job was to shoot things down and they were hard to catch and ...
Dan McCaffery, 1990
10
Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council
At its 3683rd meeting, on 26 July 1996, the Council decided to invite the representatives of Colombia, Cuba, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Viet Nam to participate, without vote, in the discussion of the item entitled: " Shooting down ...
United Nations, United Nations. Security Council, 1981

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOOTING-DOWN»

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Shooting down of MH17 'most likely' scenario
The shooting-down scenario "is the one getting the most attention now" in the international criminal investigation into the July 17 downing of the Boeing 777 over ... «CTV News, Sep 14»

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