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shoot

/ʃuːt/

noun

Meaning

  • The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

  • A photography session.

  • A hunt or shooting competition.

  • An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

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

  • A rush of water; a rapid.

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

  • A shoat; a young pig.

  • 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.

  • The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

verb

Meaning

  • To launch a projectile.

  • To move or act quickly or suddenly.

  • To act or achieve.

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

  • To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.

  • To develop, move forward.

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

    "The land shoots into a promontory."

  • To plane straight; to fit by planing.

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

  • To shoot the moon.