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.

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