shoot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a new branch
  2. noun the act of shooting at targets
    • they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer
  3. verb hit with a missile from a weapon
    pip; hit.
  4. verb kill by firing a missile
    pip.
  5. verb fire a shot
    blast.
    • the gunman blasted away
  6. verb make a film or photograph of something
    take; film.
    • take a scene
    • shoot a movie
  7. verb send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
    • shoot a glance
  8. verb run or move very quickly or hastily
    flash; dart; dash; scud; scoot.
    • She dashed into the yard
  9. verb move quickly and violently
    tear; charge; shoot down; buck.
    • The car tore down the street
    • He came charging into my office
  10. verb throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
    • shoot craps
    • shoot a golf ball
  11. verb record on photographic film
    snap; photograph.
    • I photographed the scene of the accident
    • 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
    inject.
    • 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
    fool; fool away; fritter away; dissipate; frivol away; fritter.
    • Fritter away one's inheritance
  18. verb score
    • shoot a basket
    • 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
    bourgeon; sprout; spud; pullulate; burgeon forth; germinate.
    • the potatoes sprouted
  22. verb give an injection to
    inject.
    • We injected the glucose into the patient's vein

WordNet

Shoot noun
Etymology
F. chute. See Chute. Confused with shoot to let fly.
Definitions
  1. 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.
Shoot transitive verb
Etymology
OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i., sceótan; akin to D. schieten, G. schieen, OHG. sciozan, Icel. skjta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump. Cf. Scot a contribution, Scout to reject, Scud, Scuttle, v. i., Shot, Sheet, Shut, Shuttle, Skittish, Skittles.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Shot ; present participle & verbal noun Shooting The old participle Shotten is obsolete See Shotten
Definitions
  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.
    Sir W. Scott.
Shoot intransitive verb
Definitions
  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.
Shoot noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913