SHOOT

shoot

(noun) the act of shooting at targets; “they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer”

shoot

(noun) a new branch

inject, shoot

(verb) give an injection to; “We injected the glucose into the patient’s vein”

shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout

(verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate; “the potatoes sprouted”

shoot

(verb) measure the altitude of by using a sextant; “shoot a star”

shoot

(verb) utter fast and forcefully; “She shot back an answer”

film, shoot, take

(verb) make a film or photograph of something; “take a scene”; “shoot a movie”

photograph, snap, shoot

(verb) record on photographic film; “I photographed the scene of the accident”; “She snapped a picture of the President”

shoot

(verb) score; “shoot a basket”; “shoot a goal”

blast, shoot

(verb) fire a shot; “the gunman blasted away”

shoot, hit, pip

(verb) hit with a missile from a weapon

fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away

(verb) spend frivolously and unwisely; “Fritter away one’s inheritance”

shoot

(verb) throw dice, as in a crap game

inject, shoot

(verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; “inject hydrogen into the balloon”

shoot

(verb) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; “shoot craps”; “shoot a golf ball”

tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck

(verb) move quickly and violently; “The car tore down the street”; “He came charging into my office”

dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot

(verb) run or move very quickly or hastily; “She dashed into the yard”

shoot

(verb) send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; “shoot a glance”

shoot

(verb) cause a sharp and sudden pain in; “The pain shot up her leg”

shoot, pip

(verb) kill by firing a missile

shoot

(verb) emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; “The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle (rare) shotten or shot)

To launch a projectile.

(transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).

(transitive) To fire (a projectile).

Synonym: loose (of an arrow)

(transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).

(intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.

(intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.

(transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.

(transitive, slang) To ejaculate.

(intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.

(intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.

(transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.

(transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.

(transitive, intransitive, analogous, cinema, TV) To film.

To move or act quickly or suddenly.

(intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.

To go over or pass quickly through.

(transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.

(transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.

(obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

(obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

(informal, transitive) To send to someone.

(sport) To act or achieve.

(wrestling) To lunge.

(professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).

To make the stated score.

(surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).

(transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.

To develop, move forward.

To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

To grow; to advance.

(nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.

To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.

To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.

(carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W

(card games) To shoot the moon.

Noun

shoot (plural shoots)

The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

A photography session.

A hunt or shooting competition.

(professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

A rush of water; a rapid.

(weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

A shoat; a young pig.

(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc, are caused to slide; a chute.

(card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

Etymology 2

Interjection

shoot

A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain

Synonyms

• (mild expletive): darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks, sugar

Anagrams

• Hoots, Htoos, Sotho, hoots, sooth, toosh

Source: Wiktionary

Shoot, n. Etym: [F. chute. See Chute. Confused with shoot to let fly.]

Definition: An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course. [Written also chute, and shute.] [U. S.] To take a shoot, to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]

Shoot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shot; p. pr. & vb. n. Shooting. The old participle Shotten is obsolete. See Shotten.] Etym: [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i., sceótan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie, OHG. sciozan, Icel. skj, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump. sq. root159. Cf. Scot a contribution, Scout to reject, Scud, Scuttle, v. i., Shot, Sheet, Shut, Shuttle, Skittish, Skittles.]

1. To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object. If you please To shoot an arrow that self way. Shak.

2. To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun. The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another. Boyle.

3. To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object. When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. A. Tucker.

4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. Beau & Fl. A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. Macaulay.

5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. Ps. xxii. 7. Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting. Dryden.

6. (Carp.)

Definition: To plane straight; to fit by planing. Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel. Moxon.

7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar. She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. Dryden.

8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. Tennyson. To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him" Sir W. Scott.

Shoot, v. i.

1. To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides. The archers have . . . shot at him. Gen. xlix. 23.

2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.

3. To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star. There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. Dryden.

4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains. Thy words shoot through my heart. Addison.

5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. These preachers make His head to shoot and ache. Herbert.

6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout. Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. Bacon. But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. Dryden.

7. To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly. Well shot in years he seemed. Spenser. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. Thomson.

8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify. If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals. Bacon.

9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory. There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. Dickens.

10. (Naut.)

Definition: To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.

Shoot, n.

1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle. The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. Bacon. One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. Drayton.

2. A young branch or growth. Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. Evelyn.

3. A rush of water; a rapid.

4. (Min.)

Definition: A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. Knight.

5. (Weaving)

Definition: A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

6. Etym: [Perh. a different word.]

Definition: A shoat; a young hog.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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