 10 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shoot
noun
1: a new branch
2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every
weekend during the summer"
verb
1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: {hit}, {pip}]
2: kill by firing a missile [syn: {pip}]
3: fire a shot
4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene";
"shoot a movie" [syn: {film}, {take}]
5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"
6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: {dart}, {dash}, {scoot}, {scud}, {flash}]
7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street";
"He came charging into my office" [syn: {tear}, {shoot
down}, {charge}, {buck}]
8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a
specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of
the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
[syn: {photograph}, {snap}]
10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully;
"The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"
12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject
hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: {inject}]
13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors;
"shoot cloth"
14: throw dice, as in a crap game
15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's
inheritance" [syn: {fritter}, {frivol away}, {dissipate},
{fritter away}, {fool}, {fool away}]
16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"
18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"
19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes
sprouted" [syn: {spud}, {germinate}, {pullulate}, {bourgeon},
{burgeon forth}, {sprout}]
20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the
patient's vein" [syn: {inject}]
[also: {shot}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shot
adjective: varying in color when seen in different lights or from
different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or
shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and
iridescent" [syn: {changeable}, {chatoyant}, {iridescent}]
noun
1: an attempt to score in a game
2: (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a
club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes
to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot require good
balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot"
[syn: {stroke}]
3: the act of firing a projectile; "his shooting was slow but
accurate" [syn: {shooting}]
4: a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"
[syn: {crack}]
5: the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a
syringe; "the nurse gave him a flu shot" [syn: {injection}]
6: a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed
past his ear" [syn: {pellet}]
7: an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held
camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he
tried to get unposed shots of his friends" [syn: {snapshot},
{snap}]
8: a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of
action in a film [syn: {scene}]
9: informal words for any attempt or effort; "he gave it his
best shot"; "he took a stab at forecasting" [syn: {stab}]
10: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and
intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was
'drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a
dig at me every chance she gets" [syn: {shaft}, {slam}, {dig},
{barb}, {jibe}, {gibe}]
11: a blow hard enough to cause injury; "he is still recovering
from a shot to his leg"; "I caught him with a solid shot
to the chin"
12: a small drink of liquor; "he poured a shot of whiskey" [syn:
{nip}]
13: sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in
the shot put; "he trained at putting the shot"
14: a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability
to shoot); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter" [syn: {shooter}]
15: the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified
destination [syn: {blastoff}]
16: an explosive charge used in blasting
17: an estimate based on little or no information [syn: {guess},
{guesswork}, {guessing}, {dead reckoning}]
[also: {shotting}, {shotted}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shot
See {shoot}
[also: {shotting}, {shotted}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shoot \Shoot\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shot}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shooting}. The old participle {Shotten} is obsolete. See
{Shotten}.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, verb (used without an object),
sce['o]tan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie?en, OHG. sciozan,
Icel. skj?ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump.
[root]159. Cf. {Scot} a contribution, {Scout} to reject,
{Scud}, {Scuttle}, verb (used without an object), {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.) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shot \Shot\,
imp. & p. p. of {Shoot}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shot \Shot\, adjective
Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation,
of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See
{Shoot}, verb (used with an object), 8.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shot \Shot\, noun [AS. scot, sceot, fr. sce['o]tan to shoot; akin
to D. sschot, Icel. skot. [root]159. See {Scot} a share,
{Shoot}, verb (used with an object), and cf. {Shot} a shooting.]
A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
Here no shots are where all shares be. --Chapman.
A man is never . . . welcome to a place till some
certain shot be paid and the hostess say ''Welcome.''
--Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shot \Shot\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shotting}.]
To load with shot, as a gun. --Totten.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shot \Shot\, noun; pl. {Shot}or {Shots}. [OE. shot, schot, AS.
gesceot a missile; akin to D. schot a shot, shoot, G. schuss,
geschoss a missile, Icel. skot a throwing, a javelin, and E.
shoot, v.t. [root]159. See {Shoot}, and cf. {Shot} a share.]
1. The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other
weapon which throws a missile.
He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be
made at the king's army. --Clarendon.
2. A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet;
specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from
firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
Note: Shot used in war is of various kinds, classified
according to the material of which it is composed, into
lead, wrought-iron, and cast-iron; according to form,
into spherical and oblong; according to structure and
modes of operation, into solid, hollow, and case. See
{Bar shot}, {Chain shot}, etc., under {Bar}, {Chain},
etc.
3. Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used
chiefly as the projectiles in shotguns for killing game;
as, bird shot; buckshot.
4. The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or
can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a
cannon shot.
5. A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent
shot.
6. (Fisheries)
(a) A cast of a net.
(b) The entire throw of nets at one time.
(c) A place or spot for setting nets.
(d) A single draft or catch of fish made.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
7. (Athletics) A spherical weight, to be put, or thrown, in
competition for distance.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
8. A stroke, throw, or other action to propel a ball or other
game piece in certain games, as in billiards, hockey,
basketball, curling, etc.; also, a move, as in chess.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9. A guess; conjecture; also, an attempt. [Colloq.] ''I'll
take a shot at it.''
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
{Shot belt}, a belt having a pouch or compartment for
carrying shot.
{Shot cartridge}, a cartridge containing powder and small
shot, forming a charge for a shotgun.
{Shot garland} (Naut.), a wooden frame to contain shot,
secured to the coamings and ledges round the hatchways of
a ship.
{Shot gauge}, an instrument for measuring the diameter of
round shot. --Totten.
{shot hole}, a hole made by a shot or bullet discharged.
{Shot locker} (Naut.), a strongly framed compartment in the
hold of a vessel, for containing shot.
{Shot of a cable} (Naut.), the splicing of two or more cables
together, or the whole length of the cables thus united.
{Shot prop} (Naut.), a wooden prop covered with tarred hemp,
to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's
side.
{Shot tower}, a lofty tower for making shot, by dropping from
its summit melted lead in slender streams. The lead forms
spherical drops which cool in the descent, and are
received in water or other liquid.
{Shot window}, a window projecting from the wall. Ritson,
quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens
and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters
made of timber and a few inches of glass above them.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
451 Moby Thesaurus words for "shot":
Nimrod, SOL, Telephoto, Wirephoto, admission, admission fee,
aerial photograph, all bets off, all off, all over, all up,
altitude peak, anchorage, ante, antelope, antitoxin, approach,
archer, arrow, artilleryman, assay, at an end, at once, attempt,
automatic control, bag, ball, balled up, bang, bar shot, bark, bet,
bicolor, bicolored, bid, bird shot, black-and-white photograph,
blast, blast-off, blind guess, blue darter, blue streak,
bold conjecture, bollixed up, book, boom shot, boost, booster,
booster dose, booster shot, boozy, bowman, bowshot, break,
brokerage, buckshot, buggered, buggered up, bullet, burn, burnout,
burst, by no means, call the shots, canceled, candid photograph,
canned, cannon, cannon shot, cannonball, cannoneer, carabineer,
carfare, case shot, cast, ceiling, cellarage, chance, charge,
charges, cheesecake, chronophotograph, chunk, close-up,
color photograph, color print, colorful, colory, complete,
concluded, conjecture, cooked, courser, cover charge, crack,
crack shot, crap, craps, crazy, crossbar shot, crushed, daedal,
dart, dashed, dead, dead shot, deadeye, decided, deck, defunct,
deleted, demand, demoralized, descent, detonation, deuce shot,
diapositive, dichromatic, discharge, disguised, divers-colored,
dockage, done, done for, done with, dose, draft, dram, drench,
drink, drop, dropping, drug packet, drunk, duck shot, dues,
dumdum bullet, eagle, effort, ejection, electricity, encouragement,
end of burning, endeavor, ended, entrance fee, essay, exaction,
exactment, expanding bullet, experiment, explosion, express train,
expunged, extinct, fare, fee, finger, fini, finished, fix, flash,
flight, fling, follow-focus shot, fouled up, full shot,
fulmination, fusillade, gambit, gargle, gazelle, go, good shot,
grape, grapeshot, greased lightning, greyhound, group shot, guess,
gummed up, gun, gunfire, gunman, gunner, gunshot, guzzle, handbook,
hare, harlequin, hashed up, hastily, hazard, heliochrome,
heliograph, hire, hit, hunch, hunter, hurriedly, hypodermic,
hypodermic injection, ignition, immediately, impact, incentive,
inducement, inebriated, injection, inoculation, instantaneously,
instantly, jet injection, jet plane, jigger, jolt, kaleidoscopic,
kaput, kinescope, langrel shot, launch, libation, license fee,
lick, lift-off, light, lightning, like a flash, like a shot,
like greased lightning, long shot, look-in, loused up, mainlining,
manstopping bullet, many-colored, marksman, markswoman, matte shot,
medium shot, medley, mercury, messed up, missile, montage,
motion picture, motivation, motley, move, mucked up, muddled, mug,
mug shot, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, musketeer,
narcotic injection, narcotic shot, natural, neurasthenic, never,
nick, nip, no way, occasion, offer, on no account, opening,
opportunity, over, overdose, pan shot, panoramic shot, parlay,
parti-color, parti-colored, peg, pellet, perfected, perhaps, photo,
photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap,
photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, pilotage,
pinup, pixilated, plastered, play, polychromatic, polychrome,
polychromic, pop, popping, portage, portion, portrait, potation,
potion, potshot, prismal, process shot, projectile, prostrate,
prostrated, provocation, pull, queered, quickly, quicksilver,
rap shot, rapidly, reduced to jelly, retake, rifle ball, rifleman,
rocket, rocket launching, roll, rough guess, round,
round of drinks, round shot, rule the roost, salvage, salvo,
scared rabbit, scot, scot and lot, screwed up, set at rest,
settled, shaken, sharpshooter, shell, shoot, shooter, shooting,
shooting up, shot through, shot to pieces, show, shrapnel, sip,
skin-popping, slap, slide, slug, snafued, snap, snapshot,
snarled up, snifter, sniper, snort, spectral, speculation,
speedily, split shot, spot, spray, squeak, stab, stagger, stake,
step, still, still photograph, stimulus, stoneshot, storage,
streak, streak of lightning, stricken, striped snake, stroke,
strong bid, suck, sunk, sup, surmise, swallow, swiftly, swig,
swill, take, targetshooter, tattoo, telephotograph, tentative,
terminated, thought, through, through with, throw,
thunder and lightning, thunderbolt, time, toll, torrent, tot,
towage, toxophilite, trajectory, transparency, trapshooter,
travel shot, trial, trial and error, trichromatic, trichromic,
tricolor, tricolored, trucking shot, try, two-tone,
under no circumstances, undertaking, undone, unglued, unmanned,
unnerved, unstrung, unverified supposition, upset, vaccination,
vaccine, varicolored, variegated, velocity peak, versicolor,
versicolored, volley, wager, washed up, wet, whack, wharfage,
whirl, wild guess, wind, wiped out, wound up, zapped, zoom shot
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