What's the difference between archery and shooting?

Archery


Definition:

  • (n.) The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
  • (n.) Archers, or bowmen, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • €200 for three nights and free access to two archery centres, tiroler-adler.at Road cycling in Ireland Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wild Atlantic Cycling is a new, small travel company running cycling holidays along the Wild Atlantic Way , the route from the southernmost to northernmost tip of Ireland (Mizen to Malin).
  • (2) The traditional hotel, surrounded by mountains and at the head of the Pillersee Valley, is surrounded by an impressive set of archery courses, where packages offering plenty of time to learn – or perfect – bow-and-arrow skills can be booked.
  • (3) • From £150 per adult, including camping equipment, naturetravels.co.uk Archery in Austria Facebook Twitter Pinterest For the more target-oriented among us, there are few places that offer such a perfect set-up as the Tiroler Adler hotel in Waidring, Austria.
  • (4) A standard archery target was used to score tosses.
  • (5) Essential measures for archery safety include use of archery protective gear, use of a light-weight bow, conditioning of the forearm flexor muscles, and modifications in drawing the bowstring.
  • (6) Three different forms of enthesopathy involved the arm, principally the elbow, and may be tentatively correlated with javelin throwing, wood cutting, and archery.
  • (7) She is also close to former Times journalist and education secretary Michael Gove and accompanied him to the London Olympics archery competition in the summer.
  • (8) When they find him he gets them doing archery and dressing up.
  • (9) Methanolic extracts of hard and soft varieties of the sponge Verongia archeri were found to contain similar compounds.
  • (10) The result delivered a timely boost to Team GB after a quiet start to the games saw medal hopes in judo and archery go unfulfilled, and it was welcomed by sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe: "This is a great start to the Beijing Olympics for Team GB and I have no doubt this medal will fire up the rest of the team to do their best in the next two weeks.
  • (11) Two brominated tyrosine metabolites, fistularin 3 [1] and a new compound 11-ketofistularin 3 [2] have been isolated from a marine sponge, Aplysina archeri.
  • (12) Beta-blocking agents have been shown to reduce anxiety, hand tremor, and heart rate in precision sports like archery, but susceptible persons may experience serious adverse effects.
  • (13) An electronic arrow movement detector was used to accurately locate the muscle activity associated with release of the arrow during shooting in archery.
  • (14) The purpose of the present research was to determine whether EEG biofeedback training could improve archery performance as well as self-reported measures of concentration and self-confidence.
  • (15) Technical advancements in target archery have been extended to widespread use of "scopes" which magnify the target.
  • (16) A. archeri contained an extremely long chain fatty acid tentatively characterized as dotricontaenoic (32:1) acid.
  • (17) Around 20 police officers were bussed in at 6am on Tuesday to the north London venue where the archery competition will take place, the Guardian was told, and stayed there for 10 hours before being replaced by others.
  • (18) Indoor archery performance provided scores identical to the goal of the task and unaffected by environmental conditions or other competitors.
  • (19) Twenty-one elite-calibre archers (M = 12, F = 9) were investigated concerning all past and present archery-related shoulder injuries, using a questionnaire and physical examination.
  • (20) About 20 police officers were bussed in at 6am on Wednesday to the north London venue where the archery competition will take place, the Guardian was told, and stayed there for 10 hours before being replaced by others.

Shooting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoot
  • (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.
  • (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
  • (n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
  • (2) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (3) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (4) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (5) An investigation into the shooting by the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s office has been completed and handed to the office of McGinty, the county prosecutor.
  • (6) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
  • (7) Holmes, 25, is charged with more than 166 separate offences relating to the mass shooting of 20 July in Aurora, including first degree murder.
  • (8) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (9) So far this year, we have seen more than 350 mass shootings in the US and it happens almost every day.
  • (10) I said ‘ periodista, no dispare ’ – it means ‘journalist, don’t shoot’ – ‘ por favor ’.
  • (11) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
  • (12) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
  • (13) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
  • (14) They shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’ They told her: ‘We’re going to shoot.’ “The shooting resumed.
  • (15) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
  • (16) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
  • (17) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
  • (18) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
  • (19) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
  • (20) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.

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