'Shoot' definitions:

Definition of 'shoot'

(from WordNet)
noun
A new branch
noun
The act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"
verb
Hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip]
verb
Kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip]
verb
Fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast, shoot]
verb
Make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take]
verb
Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"
verb
Run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot]
verb
Move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck]
verb
Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
verb
Record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn: photograph, snap, shoot]
verb
Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
verb
Cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"
verb
Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot]
verb
Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth"
verb
Throw dice, as in a crap game
verb
Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away]
verb
Score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
verb
Utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"
verb
Measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"
verb
Produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout]
verb
Give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot]

Definition of 'Shoot'

From: GCIDE
  • Shoot \Shoot\, n. [F. chute. See Chute. Confused with shoot to let fly.] 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • To take a shoot, to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Shoot'

From: GCIDE
  • Shoot \Shoot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shot; p. pr. & vb. n. Shooting. The old participle Shotten is obsolete. See Shotten.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i., 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, 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. [1913 Webster]
  • If you please To shoot an arrow that self way. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. --A. Tucker. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. [1913 Webster]
  • An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud. [1913 Webster]
  • They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps. xxii. 7. [1913 Webster]
  • Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing. [1913 Webster]
  • Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel. --Moxon. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar. [1913 Webster]
  • She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. [1913 Webster]
  • The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him?" --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Shoot'

From: GCIDE
  • Shoot \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. [1913 Webster]
  • The archers have . . . shot at him. --Gen. xlix. 23. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains. [1913 Webster]
  • Thy words shoot through my heart. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. [1913 Webster]
  • These preachers make His head to shoot and ache. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout. [1913 Webster]
  • Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly. [1913 Webster]
  • Well shot in years he seemed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify. [1913 Webster]
  • If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory. [1913 Webster]
  • There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. [1913 Webster]
  • To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Shoot'

From: GCIDE
  • Shoot \Shoot\, n.
  • 1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle. [1913 Webster]
  • The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A young branch or growth. [1913 Webster]
  • Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A rush of water; a rapid. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'shoot'

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Words containing 'Shoot'