Lexic.us

Definition of Shoot

1. Noun. A new branch.

2. Verb. Hit with a missile from a weapon.

3. Noun. The act of shooting at targets. "They hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"

4. Verb. Kill by firing a missile. "They want to shoot the prisoners "

5. Verb. Fire a shot. ; "The gunman blasted away"

6. Verb. Make a film or photograph of something. "Sam cannot shoot Sue "; "Shoot a movie"

7. Verb. Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly. "Shoot a glance"

8. Verb. Run or move very quickly or hastily. "She dashed into the yard"

9. Verb. Move quickly and violently. "He came charging into my office"

10. Verb. Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective. "Shoot a golf ball"

11. Verb. Record on photographic film. "She snapped a picture of the President"

12. Verb. Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully. "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"

13. Verb. Cause a sharp and sudden pain in. "The pain shot up her leg"

14. Verb. Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing. "They shoot a chemical into the fruit"; "Inject hydrogen into the balloon"

15. Verb. Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors. "Shoot cloth"

16. Verb. Throw dice, as in a crap game.

17. Verb. Spend frivolously and unwisely. "Fritter away one's inheritance"

18. Verb. Score. "Shoot a goal"

19. Verb. Utter fast and forcefully. "She shot back an answer"

20. Verb. Measure the altitude of by using a sextant. "Shoot a star"

21. Verb. Produce buds, branches, or germinate. "The potatoes sprouted"

22. Verb. Give an injection to. "Did he shoot his foot? "; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"

Definition of Shoot

1. n. 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.

2. v. t. 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.

3. v. i. 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.

4. n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.

Definition of Shoot

1. Verb. (transitive) To fire a projectile or energy weapon at. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive usually, as imperative) To begin to speak. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To hit with a projectile or energy beam from such a weapon. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To dismiss or do away with. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To photograph. ¹

7. Verb. (context: wrestling) To lunge. ¹

8. Verb. (context: 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-to script). ¹

9. Verb. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point). ¹

10. Verb. (sports) To make the stated score. ¹

11. Verb. (slang) To ejaculate. ¹

12. Verb. To go over or pass quickly through. ¹

13. Verb. (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute. ¹

14. Verb. (transitive intransitive colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously. ¹

15. Noun. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. ¹

16. Noun. A photography session. ¹

17. Noun. A hunt or shooting competition. ¹

18. Noun. (context: professional wrestling slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate. ¹

19. Interjection. (non-gloss definition A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shoot

1. to hit, wound, or kill with a missile discharged from a weapon [v SHOT, SHOOTING, SHOOTS]

Medical Definition of Shoot

1. A young branch which sprouts from the main stock. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoot

shook shook-up shook one's head shook out shooks shool shoole shooled shooles shooling

shools shoon shoops shoos shoot-'em-up shoot-'em-ups shoot-down shoot-em-up shoot-out shoot-outs

shoot 'em up shoot 'em ups shoot a line shoot down shoot first and ask questions later shoot for

Literary usage of Shoot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"During this •hooting the defendant was stand- Ing near Daniel and saying, "shoot! shoot!" In his statement the defendant denied this and said that what he ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"To Find an Ore shoot by Driving a Level. — The pitch being given by its altitude and azimuth, this serves as a course from any point on the ore shoot whose ..."

3. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1904)
"Hoot- system and shoot-system compared and contrasted—Definitions—Segmentation of shoot—nodes and internodes— stem, branch, twigs, leaves and other ..."

4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The branching is indeed usually axillary but the relationship between leaf and axillary shoot is not the same everywhere. TIME-RELATIONSHIP IN DEVELOPMENT ..."

5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... a shooting, used in compounds, as in skud-aar, leap-year, skud-steen, a also to slip or scud away, abscond. See shoot, ^[ I unhesitatingly reject ..."

6. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as ¡I flics. And catch ihc manners living as they rise; Laugh where we ... Youth should watch joys and shoot 'em as they By. ..."

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