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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
Bruce Sterling

Meaning of "shooting war" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHOOTING WAR

shooting war  [ˈʃuːtɪŋ wɔː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHOOTING WAR

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shooting war 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 WAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of shooting war in the English dictionary

The definition of shooting war in the dictionary is armed conflict, as opposed to cold war, diplomatic friction etc.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHOOTING WAR


antiwar
ˌæntɪˈwɔː
awa´
əˈwɔː
cyberwar
ˈsaɪbəˌwɔː
jowar
dʒəˈwɔː
men-of-war
ˌmenəˈwɔː
psywar
ˈsaɪˌwɔː
squaw
skwɔː
swore
swɔː
twa
twɔː
war
wɔː
Waugh
wɔː
waw
wɔː
wha
hwɔː
wore
wɔː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHOOTING WAR

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-down
shootist

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHOOTING WAR

air war
bidding war
civil war
cold war
council of war
declaration of war
dirty war
fare war
flame war
ground war
guerrilla war
holy war
man o´ war
opium war
prisoner of war
sloop of war
state of war
theatre of war
trade war
turf war

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

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Translation of «shooting war» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHOOTING WAR

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

Translator English - Chinese

拍摄战争
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

guerra de fuego
570 millions of speakers

English

shooting war
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शूटिंग युद्ध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اطلاق النار حرب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стрельба война
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

guerra de tiros
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শুটিং যুদ্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

guerre de tir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menembak perang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schießen Krieg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

武力戦争
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

촬영 전쟁
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Njupuk perang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chụp chiến tranh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர் படப்பிடிப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शूटिंग युद्ध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Savaş çekim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

guerra riprese
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

strzelanie wojna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стрільба війна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

război de fotografiere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γυρίσματα πόλεμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skiet die oorlog
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skytte krig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skyting krig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shooting war

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOOTING WAR»

The term «shooting war» is regularly used and occupies the 103.267 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOOTING WAR» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «SHOOTING WAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shooting war.
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Bruce Sterling
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOOTING WAR»

Discover the use of shooting war in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shooting war and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shooting war: photography and the American experience of combat
Chronicles the changing American perceptions of war, outlining the criteria for truly meaningful photographs and interviewing renowned war photographers, who detail their experiences, their emotions, and their quests for the perfect shot
Susan D. Moeller, 1989
2
Shooting War
" -Paper "This is a winner...the Apocalypse Now of the War on Terrorism, told in the form of a brilliantly rendered graphic novel.
Anthony Lappe, 2009
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Shooting War: A Novel about a Film
This is a novel about the filming of a novel. It is also a novel about friendship, love, politics, and war, the making of art and the passage of time.
Arthur Goldhammer, 2012
4
Shooting the War: The Memoir and Photographs of a U-Boat ...
The Memoir and Photographs of a U-Boat Officer in World War II Otto Giese, James E. Wise, Jr. List of Equivalent Commissioned-Officer Ranks (World War II) Foreword This is the story of one man's journey through ix. GERMAN NAVY ROYAL ...
Otto Giese, James E. Wise, Jr., 2003
5
War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861
A powerful narrative of the bloody prologue to the Civil War, "War to the Knife" covers the 1854 shooting war between pro-slavery men in Missouri and free-staters in Kansas over control of the Kansas territory. 30 photos.
Thomas Goodrich, 2004
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The Viet Nam War/the American War: Images and ...
The United States lost the shooting war, but so far it is winning this meta-war. U.S. discourse about the war seems most comfortable when it can center exclusively on American issues and abstract "Vietnam" the war from Viet Nam the country, ...
Renny Christopher, 1995
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Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American ...
Fehrenbach, This Kind of War, 610; Susan D. Moeller, Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat (New York: Basic Books, 1989), 261; Albert J. Mayer and Thomas Ford Hoult, "Social Stratification and Combat ...
Michael Cullen Green, 2010
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President Roosevelt and the coming of the war 1941
You ought to go into the war, and you ought to start shooting in a shooting war." " The truth may be denied — indeed, it is likely to be. The outcome of the episode is a mystery, since the light was too poor for the commander of the destroyer to ...
Charles A. Beard, 1948
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War/time
Bolton's analysis certainly fits with Gotō's stance, insofar as Gotō also seeks to distinguish between a shooting war and a war designed to recreate a wartime state of emergency in Tokyo. Several problems appear in Bolton's analysis, which ...
Frenchy Lunning, 2009
10
The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
There's a shooting war and a genocide war. The two are connected, but also distinct. In the shooting war, there are two conventional armies at each other, and in the genocide war, one of those armies – the government side with help from ...
Allan Thompson, 2007

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