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PRONUNCIATION OF SHOOTING GALLERY

shooting gallery play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHOOTING GALLERY

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Shooting gallery 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 GALLERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Shooting gallery

A shooting gallery is a carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets worth various minor prizes or points towards a major prize. Shooting gallery or Shooting Gallery may also refer to...

Definition of shooting gallery in the English dictionary

The definition of shooting gallery in the dictionary is an area, often enclosed, designed for target practice, shooting, etc. Other definition of shooting gallery is a house where heroin addicts inject themselves.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHOOTING GALLERY

shooter
shootie
shooting
shooting box
shooting brake
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
shooting-down
shootist

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHOOTING GALLERY

art gallery
artillery
celery
costume jewellery
distillery
field artillery
gallery
horse artillery
jewellery
ladies´ gallery
National Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
peanut gallery
photo gallery
picture gallery
play to the gallery
portrait gallery
press gallery
public gallery
rogues´ gallery
viewing gallery

Synonyms and antonyms of shooting gallery in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «shooting gallery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHOOTING GALLERY

Find out the translation of shooting gallery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shooting gallery 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 gallery» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

射击场
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

galería de tiro
570 millions of speakers

English

shooting gallery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शूटिंग गैलरी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معرض اطلاق النار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тир
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

galeria de tiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শুটিং গ্যালারি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

stand de tir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Galeri menembak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schießstand
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

撮影のギャラリー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

촬영 갤러리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Galeri njupuk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bộ sưu tập chụp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

படப்பிடிப்பு கேலரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शूटिंग गॅलरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Atış galerisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poligono di tiro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

strzelanie galeria
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тир
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

galerie de fotografiere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γυρίσματα gallery
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skiet gallery
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Shooting Gallery
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skytebane
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shooting gallery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOOTING GALLERY»

The term «shooting gallery» is regularly used and occupies the 96.443 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOOTING GALLERY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «shooting gallery» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «shooting gallery» 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 gallery

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOOTING GALLERY»

Discover the use of shooting gallery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shooting gallery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Whitetail Shooting Gallery
It's dark and gritty, but it's also pretty funny. ... In 'Whitetail Shooting Gallery', Lapointe gives us an animalistic view of the teen world. This is not small-town rural life as idyllic or pastoral.
Annette Lapointe, 2012
2
The Shooting Gallery: Julian's Private Scrapbook Part 3
Introducing Freddy, an entrepreneur from another troop. Sunday is opening day at Freddy's Shooting Gallery; Andy and Tony add their talents to the unauthorized enterprise-they try to offset the annoying security precautions.
Eldot, Eldot, 2012
3
Shooting Gallery, and Play for Germs: Two Short Plays
A trio of imaginatively conceived, offbeat comedies which were first produced, with great success, by New York's experimental Manhattan Punch Line Theatre.
Israel Horovitz, 1973
4
The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories
Includes eight stories about single women coping with motherhood, jealousy, and the war between responsibility and entrapment
Yūko Tsushima, 1997
5
The Shooting Gallery: A Detective Yablonsky Mystery
Investigating the murder of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Detective Yablonsky is drawn through the underworld of Manhattan's rich and famous to the drug-infested areas of the East Village. By the author of The Bone Orchard. Reprint.
Joseph Trigoboff, 2004
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Digest of the Charter and Ordinances of the City of Memphis: ...
Before a shooting gallery shall be set up or to procu reestablished in the cellar or basement story, or any other opening "gaT* story of any building within the corporate limits of thei6"7. City of Memphis, the proprietor or proprietors of such ...
William H. Bridges, 1873
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Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical ...
Which members of the semi-star-studded cast will die before the final credits? — CNN review of Independence Day, 3 July 1996 A SHOOTING-GALLERY IN SPACE Those of us who saw Ridley Scott's Alien shortly after its initial release in the ...
Kristin Thompson, 1999
8
Shooting Gallery: An Art Lover's Mystery
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Juliet Blackwell, 2006
9
Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS
For example, some drug injectors are linked to many others in the two-core of the large component because they are shooting gallery owners or because they help others to buy drugs (in return for “sharing a taste”). Relationships with these ...
Samuel R. Friedman, 1999
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Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities
After this theatre trip George returns to his unconventional home, in the premises of his business, the shooting gallery. Though ostensibly the space in which men's bodies are honed in the weapons and warfare training that instils one ...
Holly Furneaux, 2009

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOOTING GALLERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shooting gallery is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stephen King Calls for 'Responsible Gun Control' After Charleston …
“Meanwhile, the American shooting gallery remains open.” Also read: ... CNN reports that the suspect in the shooting, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, has confessed. «TheWrap, Jun 15»
2
And The First Person To Blame The Charleston Shooting On A Lack …
... in houses of worship turned this black church in SC into a shooting gallery. ... at the State Capitol after the shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
3
Nine dead in Texas biker gangs carpark shootout
The fight between five rival gangs turned a local bar into a “shooting gallery”, a local television station in Waco, Texas reported, as the tattoo-covered bikers ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
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St. Pete man trades backyard shooting gallery for gun-range …
But in less than a week, his plans to build a backyard gun range out of sand and pallets behind his father's house in Lakewood Estates earned him a couple ... «Tampabay.com, Feb 15»
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"Shooting gallery" standoff in Elberta ends peacefully
But for a time, Benzie County's Sheriff referred to the situation as a shooting gallery. The man who started the standoff has a history of mental illness and has had ... «UpNorthLive.com, Dec 14»
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Furniture Gallery to shooting gallery
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) From Furniture Gallery to shooting gallery, the long time Terre Haute business's doors have closed and new plans could bring an ... «WTHI, Jul 14»
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Lupica: As another school shooting grips an American community …
He is anyone's child, in the shooting gallery that America has become. ... had no rights when the shooter put the AR-15 rifle on him in the boys locker room of ... «New York Daily News, Jun 14»
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Kevin Rea rents gun at Florida firing range and kills himself
According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office in Orlando, 56-year old Kevin Rea shot himself in the 'upper body' at 4.45 p.m at The Shooting Gallery at 2911, ... «Daily Mail, Apr 12»

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