shoot

verb

1. (transitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   “to shoot a gun”

2. (transitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   “If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way.”

3. (transitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   “The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could.”

   “The hunter shot the deer to harvest its meat.”

   “The unfortunate Divisional Director, responsible for the Emperor's safety, shot himself.”

   “Shepard: She's surrounded by geth and pointing a gun at us. Shoot her!”

   “I shoot 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 launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   “They shot at a target.”

   “He shoots better than he rides.”

5. (intransitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   “They're coming to shoot with us on Sunday.”

   “The place was called the House of More, and I had shot at it once or twice in recent years.”

6. (transitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   “Although the estate had been shot previously, there had been no effective keepering and little success with the pheasants released.”

7. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   “Then, when it was his turn to shoot, he reached out with a completely empty hand and caught the dice the stickman threw to him.”

8. (slang, transitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   “After a very short time, he shot his load over the carpet.”

9. (intransitive, usually)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   “"Can I ask you a question?" "Shoot."”

   “"And now," I suggested, "I think it's about time we began to rough out a plan of campaign. Shall I throw around a few observations first?" [...] Josella blew out a feather of smoke and took a sip of her drink. Savouring the flavour, she said: "I wonder whether we shall ever taste fresh oranges again? Okay, shoot."”

10. (intransitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

    “The gun shoots well.”

11. (figuratively, transitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

    “His idea was shot on sight.”

12. (intransitive, transitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

    “He shot the couple in a variety of poses.”

    “He shot seventeen stills.”

    “I had the pleasure of shooting Arnold Newman while teaching across the hall from him at a summer photo workshop.”

13. (intransitive, transitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

    “The film was mostly shot in France.”

14. (transitive)To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

    “There was no answer, so I took the big key, rubbed some salad oil into the wards, and after one or two bad shots, for my hands were shaking, managed to fit it, and shoot the lock.”

15. (intransitive)To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    “After an initial lag, the experimental group's scores shot past the control group's scores in the fourth week.”

    “As soon as the dog appeared, the cat shot underneath the couch.”

    “There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.”

    “It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.”

    “Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[...]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.”

16. To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    “shoot the rapids”

    “She […] shoots the Stygian sound.”

    “It was approaching the time when watermen would not shoot the bridge even without a passenger aboard.”

17. To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    “One of the fishermen was really stoked. He was trying to shoot the shore break in his canoe.”

18. (transitive)To move or act quickly or suddenly.
19. (transitive)To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    “a shooting pain in my leg”

    “Thy words shoot through my heart.”

20. (intransitive, obsolete)To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    “These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.”

21. (obsolete)To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    “If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot 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 not shoot while that blows.”

22. To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    “an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle”

    “a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores”

23. (ditransitive, informal)To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    “I'll shoot you an email with all the details”

24. (informal, intransitive)To move or act quickly or suddenly.

    “Is that the time already? I've got to shoot.”

25. To act or achieve.
26. To act or achieve.
27. To act or achieve.

    “In my round of golf yesterday I shot a 76.”

28. To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
29. (colloquial, intransitive, transitive)To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
30. To develop, move forward.

    “Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.”

    “But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.”

31. To develop, move forward.

    “to shoot up rapidly”

    “Well shot in years he seemed.”

    “Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot.”

32. To develop, move forward.
33. (transitive)To develop, move forward.

    “`Take the tiller, Mahomed!' I roared in Arabic. `We must try and shoot them.' At the same moment I seized an oar, and got it out, motioning to Job to do likewise.”

34. To develop, move forward.

    “A plant shoots out a bud.”

    “They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.”

    “Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.”

35. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.

    “The land shoots into a promontory.”

    “There is 432 Park Avenue, a surreal square tube of white concrete that appears to shoot twice as high as anything around it, its endless Cartesian grid of windows framing worlds of solid marble bathtubs and climate-controlled wine cellars within.”

    “There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.”

36. To plane straight; to fit by planing.

    “two Pieces of Wood are Shot (that is Plained) or else they are Pared [...] with a Pairing-chissel”

37. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)

    “The tangled water-courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.”

38. To shoot the moon.
39. To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).

    “He tried to shoot the visual approach to runway 12, but the visibility was too low.”

40. To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.

    “Once the area is ready to "shoot," the seismic crew places geophones and cables along the line of the profile to be recorded.”

41. To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).

    “You can kiss a hundred boys in bars Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling”

noun

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

   “Prune off yet also superfluous branches, and shoots of this second spring.”

   “From the bonfire of last autumn's HS2 decision, there are green shoots pushing through the ashes.”

2. A photography session.

   “While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots 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. A hunt or shooting competition.
4. (slang)An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
5. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

   “The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.”

   “One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.”

6. A rush of water; a rapid.
7. A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
8. A shoat; a young pig.
9. A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

   “where to find a shoot 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 western dike is a shoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling of cassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. The shoot contains a large amount of muscovite mica with quartz and very little or no feldspar...”

10. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.

    “That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timber shoot was worked by the defendant company.”

11. The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
12. A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.

    “Once the last line of cable has been retrieved, there is little evidence that a shoot has been conducted.”

intj

1. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or dismay

   “Didn't you have a concert tonight? —Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready…”

   “She practically stopped dancing, and started looking over everybody’s heads to see if she could see him. “Oh, shoot!” she said. I'd just about broken her heart—I really had.”