different between shooter vs sniper

English

Etymology

From Middle English schoter, schuter, schotter, scheter, schetare, scheotere, from Old English s??otere (“shooter”), equivalent to shoot +? -er. Compare Dutch schieter, schutter (“shooter”), German Schießer (“shooter”), Swedish skjutare, West Frisian sjitter (“shooter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?t?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?t?(?)

Noun

shooter (plural shooters)

1. Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer etc.
2. (craps) The player throwing the dice.
   • 2015, Steven Lott, Functional Python Programming (page 276)

     Craps involves someone rolling the dice (a shooter) and additional bettors. The game works like this: The first roll is called a come out roll. There are three conditions: 1. If the dice total is 7 or 11, the shooter wins. […]

3. (slang) A firearm.
4. A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
5. (professional wrestling slang) A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style, or who speaks his mind during a live or televised event (instead of speaking from a script).
6. A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
   • 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

     You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.

7. An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
8. A shooting star.
9. (alternative medicine) A device supposed to accumulate orgone.

Synonyms

• (one who shoots): marksman
• (firearm): blaster
• (type of video game): shoot-'em-up

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• hooters, re-shoot, reshoot, sheroot, soother

French

Etymology

From English "to shoot" with suffix -er (first group verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.te/

Verb

shooter

1. (sports) to shoot the ball forward in an attempt to place it in the opponent's goal
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to shoot up, inject oneself with drugs

Conjugation

Further reading

• “shooter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Noun

shooter m (plural shooters or shooter)

1. shooter (game)

English

Etymology

snipe +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sna?.p?/
• Rhymes: -a?p?(r)

Noun

sniper (plural snipers)

1. A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position.

   (by extension) A sniper rifle

2. Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position.
3. One who shoots from a concealed position.
4. One who criticizes.
5. A hunter of snipe (the bird).
6. (ice hockey slang) A player who specializes in scoring goals.

   Alexander Ovechkin is often regarded as the greatest sniper of his generation.

7. A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond

Derived terms

• sniper rifle

Translations

See also

• marksman
• sharpshooter
• sniper's hide

Anagrams

• Perins, Piners, Prines, Spiner, persin, repins, respin, ripens, serpin

French

Etymology

From English sniper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snaj.pœ?/

Noun

sniper m (plural snipers)

1. sniper (person, weapon)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

sniper f

1. plural indefinite of snipe

Portuguese

Etymology

From English sniper.

Noun

sniper m, f (plural snipers)

1. (military) sniper (person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position)

   Synonym: franco-atirador