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Definitions for: Shoot
[n] the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"
[n] a new branch
[v] make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
[v] record on photographic film"I photographed the scene of the accident"
[v] give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"
[v] produce buds, branches, or germinate; of plants
[v] fire a shot
[v] hit with a missile from a weapon
[v] spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"
[v] force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon"
[v] play a shot; hit a ball; as in games involving a ball such as golf, hockey, etc.
[v] move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
[v] run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
[v] send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly;"shoot a glance"
[v] cause a shooting pain
[v] kill by firing a missile
[v] emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.]
To take a shoot, to pass through a shoot instead of the
main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]
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 The old participle Shotten is obsolete.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.
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.
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.
The archers have . . . shot at him. --Gen. xlix.
23.
2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or
instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
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.
There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --Dryden.
4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing
sensation; as, shooting pains.
Thy words shoot through my heart. --Addison.
5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
These preachers make His head to shoot and ache.
--Herbert.
6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. --Bacon.
But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful
plain. --Dryden.
7. To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
Well shot in years he seemed. --Spenser.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To
teach the young idea how to shoot. --Thomson.
8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot
into crystals. --Bacon.
9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land
shoots into a promontory.
There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt,
straggling houses. --Dickens.
10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing
vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to
outstrip others.
Shoot, n.
1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot;
as, the shoot of a shuttle.
The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.
--Bacon.
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
--Drayton.
2. A young branch or growth.
Superfluous branches and shoots of this second
spring. --Evelyn.
3. A rush of water; a rapid.
4. (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction
as the lode. --Knight.
5. (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the
shuttle; a pick.
6. [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog.
Synonyms: bourgeon, buck, burgeon forth, charge, dissipate, film, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, germinate, inject, inject, pip, pullulate, shoot down, sprout, spud, take, tear
See Also: ache, administer, belt along, birdie, blaze, blaze away, bogey, break, bucket along, cannonball along, carom, cast, chip, consume, contrive, cut back, deplete, discharge, dispense, double birdie, double bogey, dunk, eat, eat up, emit, enclose, enter, exhaust, fire, flash back, flight, give off, give out, grass, grow, gun, gun down, hasten, hie, hit, hotfoot, hurt, immunise, immunize, inclose, injure, inoculate, insert, introduce, kill, kneecap, knuckle, open fire, overshoot, pelt along, pick off, plunge, project, pump, put down, put in, race, record, reshoot, retake, run through, rush, rush along, sharpshoot, shoot up, shooting, shot, skeet, skeet shooting, smart, snipe, speed, sprout, squander, stick in, sucker, throw, tiller, trapshooting, use up, vaccinate, ware, waste, wipe out, wound, x-ray
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