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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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    FromMiddle Englishshoten, fromOld Englishscēotan, fromProto-West Germanic*skeutan, fromProto-Germanic*skeutaną, fromProto-Indo-European*(s)kéwd-e-ti, from*(s)kewd-(“to shoot, throw”).

    Cognates

    Cognate withWest Frisiansjitte,Low Germanscheten,Dutchschieten,Germanschießen,Danishskyde,Norwegian Bokmålskyte,Norwegian Nynorskskyta,Swedishskjuta; and also, through Indo-European, withRussianкида́ть(kidátʹ),Albanianhedh(“to throw, toss”),Persianچست(čost,“quick, active”),Lithuanianskudrùs.

    Verb

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    shoot (third-person singular simple presentshoots,present participleshooting,simple pastshot,past participleshotor(rare)shotten)

    1. To launch(forcefully project) a projectile.
      1. (transitive) Tofire (aweapon that releases aprojectile).
        toshoot a gun
      2. (transitive) Tofire (a projectile).
        Synonym:(of an arrow)loose
      3. (transitive) Tofire aprojectile at (a person or target).
        The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and startedshooting anyone he could.
        The huntershot the deer to harvest its meat.
        • 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, inRailway Magazine, page252:
          The unfortunate Divisional Director, responsible for the Emperor's safety,shot himself.
        • 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:
          Shepard: She's surrounded by geth and pointing a gun at us.Shoot her!
        • 2013 April 4,Hannibal, season1, episode1, spoken byWill Graham (Hugh Dancy):
          Ishoot Mr. Marlow twice, severing jugulars and cartoids with near surgical precision. He will die watching me take what is his away from him. This is my design.
      4. (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
        Theyshot at a target.
        Heshoots better than he rides.
      5. (intransitive) Tohunt birds, etc. with agun.
        They're coming toshoot with us on Sunday.
      6. (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
        • 1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain),Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)
          Although the estate had beenshot previously, there had been no effectivekeepering and little success with the pheasants released.
      7. (gambling) To throw dice.
        • 1980, John Scarne,Scarne on Dice, page275:
          Then, when it was his turn toshoot, he reached out with a completely empty hand and caught the dice the stickman threw to him.
      8. (transitive, slang) Toejaculate.
        After a very short time, heshot his load over the carpet.
      9. (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
        "Can I ask you a question?"   "Shoot."
      10. (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
        The gunshoots well.
      11. (transitive, figurative) Todismiss ordo away with.
        His idea wasshot on sight.
      12. (transitive, intransitive, analogous) Tophotograph.
        Heshot the couple in a variety of poses.
        Heshot seventeen stills.
        • 2006,Michael Grecco,Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books,→ISBN, page68:
          I had the pleasure ofshooting Arnold Newman while teaching across the hall from him at a summer photo workshop.
      13. (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) Tofilm.
        The film was mostlyshot in France.
      14. (transitive) To push or thrust abolt quickly; hence, to open alock.
    2. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
      1. (intransitive) Tomove veryquickly andsuddenly.
        After an initial lag, the experimental group's scoresshot past the control group's scores in the fourth week.
      2. To go over or pass quickly through.
        shoot the rapids
        • 1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
          She[…]shoots the Stygian sound.
        • 2005, R. G. Crouch,The Coat: The Origin and Times of Doggett's Famous Wager, page40:
          It was approaching the time when watermen would notshoot the bridge even without a passenger aboard.
      3. (surfing) To ride awave.
      4. (transitive) To tip (something, especiallycoal) down achute.
      5. (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
        ashooting pain in my leg
      6. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
        • [1633],George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar],The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […],→OCLC:
          These preachers make / His head toshoot and ache.
      7. (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
        • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
          If the menstruum be overcharged, metals willshoot into crystals.
        • 1802,Thomas Jefferson,Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII.
          The north-east [wind] is loaded with vapor, insomuch, that the salt-makers have found that their crystals would notshoot while that blows.
      8. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
      9. (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
        I'llshoot you an email with all the details
    3. (sports) To act or achieve.
      1. (wrestling) Tolunge.
      2. (professional wrestling) To deviate fromkayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
      3. To make the stated score.
        In my round of golf yesterday Ishot a 76.
    4. (surveying) Tomeasure thedistance anddirection to (a point).
    5. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) Toinject adrug (such asheroin)intravenously.
      Synonym:fix
    6. To develop, move forward.
      1. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
        • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
          Onions, as they hang, willshoot forth.
        • 1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
          But the wild oliveshoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.
      2. To grow; to advance.
        toshoot up rapidly
      3. (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hardalee.
      4. (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
      5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often without.
        A plantshoots out a bud.
    7. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
      The landshoots into a promontory.
    8. (carpentry) Toplane straight; to fit by planing.
      • 1677,Joseph Moxon,Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works:
        two Pieces of Wood areShot (that is Plained) or else they are Pared [...] with a Pairing-chissel
    9. Tovariegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.(Seeshot silk on Wikipedia)
    10. (card games) Toshoot the moon.
    11. (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (anapproach to anairportrunway).
      He tried toshoot the visual approach to runway 12, but the visibility was too low.
    12. To carry out aseismicsurvey withgeophones in anattempt todetectoil.
      • 1986, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Moratoria: Hearing, page438:
        Once the area is ready to "shoot," the seismic crew places geophones and cables along the line of the profile to be recorded.
    13. Todrink (ashot of analcoholicbeverage).
    Conjugation
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    Conjugation ofshoot
    infinitive(to)shoot
    present tensepast tense
    1st-personsingularshootshot,shooted†
    2nd-personsingularshoot,shootest†shot,shooted†,shootedst†
    3rd-personsingularshoots,shooteth†shot,shooted†
    pluralshoot
    subjunctiveshootshot,shooted†
    imperativeshoot—
    participlesshootingshot,shooted†,shotten†
    Quotations
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    Terms derived fromshoot (verb)
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    Translations
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    to fire a shot
    to fire multiple shots
    to hit with a shot
    to use a bow and arrows for shooting
    to sprout - of a plant
    take a picture
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    Noun

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    shoot (pluralshoots)

    1. The emerging stem andembryonic leaves of a newplant.
    2. Aphotography session.
      • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, inRAIL, number934, page50:
        While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours betweenshoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.
    3. Ahunt or shootingcompetition.
    4. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that isunscripted orlegitimate.
    5. The act of shooting; thedischarge of amissile; ashot.[1]
      • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
        The Turkish bow giveth a very forcibleshoot.
      • 1612,Michael Drayton,Poly-Olbion:
        One underneath his horse to get ashoot doth stalk.
    6. A rush of water; arapid.
    7. (weaving) Aweftthread shot through theshed by theshuttle; apick.[1]
    8. Ashoat; a youngpig.[1]
    9. (mining) Avein ofore running in the same general direction as thelode.[1]
      • 1853, Thomas McElrath, William Jewett Tenney, William Phipps Blake,The Mining Magazine and Journal of Geology, Mineralogy, Metallurgy:
        where to find ashoot of ore opposite one they may have taken away on a parallel lode
      • 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
        In the westerndike is ashoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling ofcassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. Theshoot contains a large amount ofmuscovitemica withquartz and very little or nofeldspar...
    10. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; achute.[1]
      • 1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court,The New South Wales Law Reports, volume12, page238:
        That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timbershoot was worked by the defendant company.
    11. (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
    12. Aseismicsurvey carried out withgeophones in an attempt to detectoil.
      • 1980,The Williston Basin, 1980, page159:
        Once the last line of cable has been retrieved, there is little evidence that ashoot has been conducted.
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    emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant
    photography session

    References

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    1. ↑1.01.11.21.31.4“shoot”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

    Etymology 2

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    Minced oath forshit.

    Interjection

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    shoot

    1. A mild expletive, expressingdisbelief ordisdain
      Didn't you have a concert tonight? —Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready…
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    expressing disbelief
    expressing disdain
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    Noun

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    shoot m (pluralshoots)

    1. shot(in sports)
    2. shoot 'em up
    3. shot(of drugs)
    4. photoshoot

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