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shooting vs drive-by shooting

drive-by shooting vs shooting

shooting and drive-by shooting both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
shooting Yes No No No
drive-by shooting Yes No No No
As nouns, drive-by shooting is a hyponym of shooting; that is, drive-by shooting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than shooting:
  • shooting: killing someone by gunfire
  • drive-by shooting: shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim
Other hyponyms of shooting include drive-by killing, wing shooting.
shooting (noun) drive-by shooting (noun)
the act of firing a projectile shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim
killing someone by gunfire
Difference between shooting and drive-by shooting

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