shoot
IPA: ʃˈut
noun
- 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.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
verb
- To launch a projectile.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- (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.
- (gambling) To throw dice.
- (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, film, television) To film.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- 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, ditransitive) To send to someone.
- (sports) 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.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- 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. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
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Examples of "shoot" in Sentences
- The cameraman shoots the scene.
- The enemy was shooting superbly.
- Shooting of the film was prolonged.
- I am going to shoot my gun into the air.
- Do quail hunters shoot them on the ground or in the air
- Burdette draws his gun and shoots the bystander in the stomach.
- She finds the gun and shoots him, the bullet skimming his head.
- The gun shoots some wiring off the ceiling as it hits the floor.
- For this reason, it is alleged that a hunter was hired to shoot the owl.
- He said there is mace made for large animals that will shoot about 20 feet and incapacitate anything it hits.