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单词 shooter
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Definition of shooter in English:

shooter

noun ˈʃuːtəˈʃudər
  • 1A person who uses a gun either regularly or on a particular occasion.

    射手;枪手;炮手;射击运动员

    a revolver in a broad range of calibres to meet the needs of every shooter
    the shooter fires at a rabbit
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rifle shooters know that seating bullets out closer to the rifling almost always improves accuracy.
    • Then, in the same five-second span, the shooter fires three shots.
    • Having an indoor range allows shooters to find out where their guns really shoot.
    • He chuckled when one of the shooters missed his shot.
    • The shooter was a former office employee who was fired about a year ago.
    • Within moments, a police officer on duty fired from the floor of the Council chamber at the shooter in the balcony.
    • Average shooters probably don't shoot 100 rounds a month, some much less.
    • Some competitive shooters shoot this many rounds in a few years.
    • Competition shooters who use optics often shoot red dot scopes, he says.
    • They are even being made now with special smoothed and lightened actions for the cowboy shooters wanting to score well.
    • But do sporting shooters see themselves as part of the gun debate in this country?
    • The rifle shooter fired again and now his rifle was empty.
    • Varmint hunters and long-range target shooters know all too well the esoteric science of wind doping.
    • Japan, for instance, allows Olympic pistol shooters to keep their guns, Britain does not.
    • Long-range varmint shooters, tactical marksmen and some hunters will find this information very useful.
    • This type of rifle has proven surprisingly popular with regular shooters as well.
    • Match regulations stipulate that only two old shooters (those who have previously competed at State level) are allowed per team.
    • Anyone with eyes must agree today's shooters have the finest sporting optics ever made available.
    • Doug Koenig has the best all-around record of any competitive pistol shooter.
    • But today's shooter has a lot more choices than I did as a kid.
    Synonyms
    marksman, markswoman, rifleman
    1. 1.1informal A gun.
      〈非正式〉手枪
      he asks what I have in my carrier bag and I tell him it's a shooter
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The craft of burglary as I was taught it was essentially non-violent, the art was always making sure it remained so, which is why I never carried a shooter.
      • When we stopped them to ask where they were going one of them pulled out a shooter.
      • No one seemed to know anything about his background but there were rumours that he carried a shooter.
      • There were at least thirty of them, all fit, strong chaps armed with shooters.
      • I took a step towards him and pointed the shooter at his ear.
      • Barely a minute passes in this gun-crazy crime caper without someone pulling out a shooter or letting off some form of military hardware.
    2. 1.2 A type of video game in which the main objective is to shoot at enemies or other targets.
      a futuristic sci-fi shooter
      Example sentencesExamples
      • "After playing either the shooter or driving game for only 10 hours, participants were faster and more accurate on the three visual search tasks," says Wu.
      • The list of top first person shooters for the PC includes a list of some of the most popular and critically acclaimed shooters that have been released.
      • Last shooter I played with a girlfriend she ended up killing me more then the enemies did because she couldn't aim around me
      • Playing video games, including violent shooters, may boost children's learning, health and social skills, according to a review.
      • I have played a lot of shooters in my day and just 'cause they look similar doesn't mean they are the same.
      • When I go from playing my PC to playing a shooter on a console I find it choppy and annoying.
      • The vivid picture and original musical background will leave nobody indifferent to this captivating shooter.
      • Plain War is a small arcade shooter in which you play as a pilot in a never ending war between two nations.
      • Quality: Just-average WWII shooter, violent and bloody.
      • This is shaping up to be the antidote for anyone sick and tired of modern combat shooters.
      • There are other games besides shooters.
      • I prefer to play my shooters on the PC, so there wasn't really any great need for me to buy a PS2 at launch.
      • When your life matters in multiplayer, you play shooters more carefully.
      • The mechanics are easy even if you don't normally play shooters.
      • Personally I don't want all my shooters to be the same so I enjoy the crouching instead of aiming down sights.
  • 2A member of a team in games such as netball and basketball whose role is to attempt to score goals.

    (篮球等比赛中的)投篮者;射门者

    the visiting shooter hit excellent form during the second quarter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is a very good mid-range jump shooter.
    • They take 500 or 600 shots a day, but it doesn't always mean they're going to he good shooters in games.
    • He's also 6 foot 10 and the best pure shooter in the league.
    • But his shooting range is limited and he is below average as a free-throw shooter.
    • He's arguably the game's best pure jump shooter.
    • The partner passes the ball back and the shooter fires away.
    • My question is how do you get the ball down the court into the shooter's hands.
    • At this age, very few teams have good outside shooters.
    • Not much of a shooter, he scores about 10 points less per game then his predecessor used to.
    • The new guys are more rugged, but the old guard was a much better group of shooters and all-around basketball players.
    • If the ball goes out of bounds, then the shooter's team retains possession, so what was gained?
    • Have the shooters approach the basket as fast as possible (without losing control of the ball!).
    • Watch the better shooters on any team and you'll find most of them shoot early in the jump.
    • In fact, some shooters make baskets at critical times, yet use terrible technique and make a bad choice to shoot altogether.
    • Not the most reliable shooter in the world, but he can get hot.
    • The poorly run workout offered up the opportunity to watch a shooter shoot baskets and little else.
    • I was an excellent shooter in netball and a pretty cool volleyball player.
    • The game became a battle of tight defence over all court positions with immense pressure being applied to the goal shooters of both teams.
    • The ball should bounce back to the shooter's hands as the left foot is being planted.
    • This is because the coach has decided he is one of the two weaker outside shooters on the opposing team.
    1. 2.1 A person who throws a dice.
      掷骰子者
      he requests the shooter to throw the dice against the rail
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You also have to know how to bet on other shooters while you're waiting to get the dice in your own hands.
      • Otherwise, the come-out roll becomes the point and you are gambling on whether the shooter will subsequently throw the point or a seven first.
      • Would you rather put your money, or increase your bet on a shooter who throws at random, or one with at least a modicum of control?
      • This way you maximize your winnings as you wait for the shooter to seven out.
      • The shooter rolls a pair of dice, and if they come up with a total of seven or eleven, he wins;
      • The whole point of regression systems is to place your biggest bets at the beginning of a shooter's roll, and your smallest bets at the end.
      • Messing around with $5 units on other shooters and waiting to get the dice, I dropped $200 before deciding to take a walk.
      • Most players wager with the shooter and with the dice.
      • If you're unsure about the shooter, take all your bets down after any one hit.
  • 3Cricket
    A bowled ball that moves rapidly along the ground after pitching.

    〔板球〕擦地球

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No chance of keeping out a shooter which took off stump.
  • 4North American informal A small alcoholic drink, especially of spirits.

    〈非正式,主北美〉一客酒(尤指烈酒)

    geez, he could use a shooter of whiskey

    哇!他竟然可以喝一客威士忌。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's a shooter that consists of vodka and red grapefruit juice and tastes pretty good.
    • Amazing drinks and smoothies with a large selection of shooters and beer on tap.
    • While perusing the menu, Ritchie offered us an Elvis drink, a vodka and grape drink shooter.
    • It's no wonder then that provocatively-named shots and shooters, and colorful Martinis made with flavored vodkas and sweet syrups are all the rage with them.
    • Beer and shooters are $1.50 until 11 p.m. and champagne will be served at midnight.
    • Running through plans and counter-plans, he drove me straight to a dingy pub where he began medicating himself with an endless stream of cigarettes and vodka shooters.
    • Disappointed that we had missed a good evening of free drinking, we decided to go to my friends' place of work, where I drank a plethora of shooters, several mixed drinks and a beer.
    • I could smell tequila shooters on his breath but I really didn't care.
    • Electing to skip dessert in favour of tequila shooters proved to be a very good idea, as the elixir went down so smoothly that we ordered another, and another.
    • I divided the drink among four glasses, explained to the guys what I'd been up too, and we downed the new drink as shooters.
    • Although $50 may not seem like all that much, I can think of better uses for starving students, and that's beer and shooters.
    • There are only so many computer-generated dinosaurs I can watch until I want to start doing tequila shooters.
    • The bar staff are dressed in school uniform with prefect badges and kohl pencil freckles and the clientele are sipping shrimp flavored vodka shooters.
    • Will she move the salt shaker three inches from its starting point after dousing her filthy hand for a tequila shooter?

Rhymes

accoutre (US accouter), commuter, computer, disputer, looter, neuter, pewter, polluter, recruiter, refuter, rooter, saluter, scooter, souter, suitor, tooter, transmuter, tutor, uprooter

Definition of shooter in US English:

shooter

nounˈʃudərˈSHo͞odər
  • 1A person who uses a gun either regularly or on a particular occasion.

    射手;枪手;炮手;射击运动员

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Varmint hunters and long-range target shooters know all too well the esoteric science of wind doping.
    • Match regulations stipulate that only two old shooters (those who have previously competed at State level) are allowed per team.
    • Doug Koenig has the best all-around record of any competitive pistol shooter.
    • But today's shooter has a lot more choices than I did as a kid.
    • Having an indoor range allows shooters to find out where their guns really shoot.
    • This type of rifle has proven surprisingly popular with regular shooters as well.
    • Japan, for instance, allows Olympic pistol shooters to keep their guns, Britain does not.
    • Some competitive shooters shoot this many rounds in a few years.
    • He chuckled when one of the shooters missed his shot.
    • But do sporting shooters see themselves as part of the gun debate in this country?
    • Anyone with eyes must agree today's shooters have the finest sporting optics ever made available.
    • Long-range varmint shooters, tactical marksmen and some hunters will find this information very useful.
    • The shooter was a former office employee who was fired about a year ago.
    • Then, in the same five-second span, the shooter fires three shots.
    • Competition shooters who use optics often shoot red dot scopes, he says.
    • The rifle shooter fired again and now his rifle was empty.
    • Rifle shooters know that seating bullets out closer to the rifling almost always improves accuracy.
    • Average shooters probably don't shoot 100 rounds a month, some much less.
    • Within moments, a police officer on duty fired from the floor of the Council chamber at the shooter in the balcony.
    • They are even being made now with special smoothed and lightened actions for the cowboy shooters wanting to score well.
    Synonyms
    marksman, markswoman, rifleman
    1. 1.1informal A gun.
      〈非正式〉手枪
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I took a step towards him and pointed the shooter at his ear.
      • When we stopped them to ask where they were going one of them pulled out a shooter.
      • There were at least thirty of them, all fit, strong chaps armed with shooters.
      • Barely a minute passes in this gun-crazy crime caper without someone pulling out a shooter or letting off some form of military hardware.
      • The craft of burglary as I was taught it was essentially non-violent, the art was always making sure it remained so, which is why I never carried a shooter.
      • No one seemed to know anything about his background but there were rumours that he carried a shooter.
    2. 1.2 A type of video game in which the main objective is to shoot at enemies or other targets.
      a futuristic sci-fi shooter
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I have played a lot of shooters in my day and just 'cause they look similar doesn't mean they are the same.
      • When I go from playing my PC to playing a shooter on a console I find it choppy and annoying.
      • I prefer to play my shooters on the PC, so there wasn't really any great need for me to buy a PS2 at launch.
      • There are other games besides shooters.
      • When your life matters in multiplayer, you play shooters more carefully.
      • The vivid picture and original musical background will leave nobody indifferent to this captivating shooter.
      • This is shaping up to be the antidote for anyone sick and tired of modern combat shooters.
      • Plain War is a small arcade shooter in which you play as a pilot in a never ending war between two nations.
      • Quality: Just-average WWII shooter, violent and bloody.
      • The list of top first person shooters for the PC includes a list of some of the most popular and critically acclaimed shooters that have been released.
      • Playing video games, including violent shooters, may boost children's learning, health and social skills, according to a review.
      • Personally I don't want all my shooters to be the same so I enjoy the crouching instead of aiming down sights.
      • Last shooter I played with a girlfriend she ended up killing me more then the enemies did because she couldn't aim around me
      • "After playing either the shooter or driving game for only 10 hours, participants were faster and more accurate on the three visual search tasks," says Wu.
      • The mechanics are easy even if you don't normally play shooters.
  • 2A member of a team in games such as basketball whose role is to attempt to score goals.

    (篮球等比赛中的)投篮者;射门者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The game became a battle of tight defence over all court positions with immense pressure being applied to the goal shooters of both teams.
    • The ball should bounce back to the shooter's hands as the left foot is being planted.
    • He's also 6 foot 10 and the best pure shooter in the league.
    • Not much of a shooter, he scores about 10 points less per game then his predecessor used to.
    • Not the most reliable shooter in the world, but he can get hot.
    • At this age, very few teams have good outside shooters.
    • Have the shooters approach the basket as fast as possible (without losing control of the ball!).
    • The poorly run workout offered up the opportunity to watch a shooter shoot baskets and little else.
    • Watch the better shooters on any team and you'll find most of them shoot early in the jump.
    • This is because the coach has decided he is one of the two weaker outside shooters on the opposing team.
    • They take 500 or 600 shots a day, but it doesn't always mean they're going to he good shooters in games.
    • He is a very good mid-range jump shooter.
    • But his shooting range is limited and he is below average as a free-throw shooter.
    • He's arguably the game's best pure jump shooter.
    • I was an excellent shooter in netball and a pretty cool volleyball player.
    • In fact, some shooters make baskets at critical times, yet use terrible technique and make a bad choice to shoot altogether.
    • The new guys are more rugged, but the old guard was a much better group of shooters and all-around basketball players.
    • My question is how do you get the ball down the court into the shooter's hands.
    • If the ball goes out of bounds, then the shooter's team retains possession, so what was gained?
    • The partner passes the ball back and the shooter fires away.
    1. 2.1 A person who throws a die or dice.
      掷骰子者
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Would you rather put your money, or increase your bet on a shooter who throws at random, or one with at least a modicum of control?
      • Otherwise, the come-out roll becomes the point and you are gambling on whether the shooter will subsequently throw the point or a seven first.
      • You also have to know how to bet on other shooters while you're waiting to get the dice in your own hands.
      • This way you maximize your winnings as you wait for the shooter to seven out.
      • Messing around with $5 units on other shooters and waiting to get the dice, I dropped $200 before deciding to take a walk.
      • If you're unsure about the shooter, take all your bets down after any one hit.
      • The whole point of regression systems is to place your biggest bets at the beginning of a shooter's roll, and your smallest bets at the end.
      • Most players wager with the shooter and with the dice.
      • The shooter rolls a pair of dice, and if they come up with a total of seven or eleven, he wins;
  • 3North American informal A small alcoholic drink, especially of distilled liquor.

    〈非正式,主北美〉一客酒(尤指烈酒)

    geez, he could use a shooter of whiskey

    哇!他竟然可以喝一客威士忌。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's a shooter that consists of vodka and red grapefruit juice and tastes pretty good.
    • Although $50 may not seem like all that much, I can think of better uses for starving students, and that's beer and shooters.
    • Running through plans and counter-plans, he drove me straight to a dingy pub where he began medicating himself with an endless stream of cigarettes and vodka shooters.
    • Amazing drinks and smoothies with a large selection of shooters and beer on tap.
    • There are only so many computer-generated dinosaurs I can watch until I want to start doing tequila shooters.
    • It's no wonder then that provocatively-named shots and shooters, and colorful Martinis made with flavored vodkas and sweet syrups are all the rage with them.
    • Electing to skip dessert in favour of tequila shooters proved to be a very good idea, as the elixir went down so smoothly that we ordered another, and another.
    • Will she move the salt shaker three inches from its starting point after dousing her filthy hand for a tequila shooter?
    • I could smell tequila shooters on his breath but I really didn't care.
    • I divided the drink among four glasses, explained to the guys what I'd been up too, and we downed the new drink as shooters.
    • Beer and shooters are $1.50 until 11 p.m. and champagne will be served at midnight.
    • Disappointed that we had missed a good evening of free drinking, we decided to go to my friends' place of work, where I drank a plethora of shooters, several mixed drinks and a beer.
    • While perusing the menu, Ritchie offered us an Elvis drink, a vodka and grape drink shooter.
    • The bar staff are dressed in school uniform with prefect badges and kohl pencil freckles and the clientele are sipping shrimp flavored vodka shooters.
  • 4A marble used to shoot at other marbles.

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