Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SHOOT

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Definitions of SHOOT

1. To launch a projectile.
2. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
3. To develop, move forward.
4. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
5. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
6. A photography session.
7. A hunt or shooting competition.
8. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
9. A rush of water; a rapid.
10. A shoat; a young pig.
11. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
12. To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
13. A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
14. (sport) To act or achieve.
15. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
16. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
17. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
18. (card games) To shoot the moon.
19. (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
20. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
21. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
22. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
23. (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
24. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain
25. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
26. To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).

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Examples of Using SHOOT in a Sentence

• After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws.
• Dark Star (1984 video game), a 3D space shoot 'em up for the ZX Spectrum written by Simon Brattel for Design Design Software.
• Two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance, and shoot a vulcanized rubber hockey puck into the other team's net.
• The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own goal ring.
• A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug.
• The tower was often rectangular with four wheels with its height roughly equal to that of the wall or sometimes higher to allow archers or crossbowmen to stand on top of the tower and shoot arrows or quarrels into the fortification.
• The trickster god Loki, who was not invited, arrived as the thirteenth guest, and arranged for Höðr, the god of darkness, to shoot Balder, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.
• February - Chotoku Incident: Fujiwara no Korechika and Takaie shoot an arrow at Retired Emperor Kazan.
• In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem.
• On June 3, 1968, Solanas went to The Factory, shot Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya, and attempted to shoot Warhol's manager, Fred Hughes.
• The oldest evidence of the use of bows to shoot arrows dates to about 10,000 years ago; it is based on pinewood arrows found in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg.
• In botany, a plant shoot consists of any plant stem together with its appendages like leaves, lateral buds, flowering stems, and flower buds.
• Cotyledons form during embryogenesis, along with the root and shoot meristems, and are therefore present in the seed prior to germination.
• While the MiG-17 was designed to shoot down slower American bombers, it showed surprising success when used by North Vietnamese pilots to combat American fighters and fighter-bombers during the Vietnam War, nearly a decade after its initial design.
• Morphologically, an inflorescence is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed on the axis of a plant.
• The pattern of spacing of nodes in horsetails, wherein those toward the apex of the shoot are increasingly close together, is said to have inspired John Napier to invent logarithms.
• After giving up modelling she devoted her time to erotic photography and became the first woman to shoot Page 3 for The Sun newspaper.
• The Provençal town of Tarascon is so enthusiastic about hunting that no game lives anywhere near it, and its inhabitants resort to telling hunting stories and throwing their own caps in the air to shoot at them.
• The BBC released a completed version of Shada in 2017, with missing dialogue newly recorded by the original cast, using the same audio equipment employed in the initial shoot, and animated by the team that undertook the reconstruction of the 1966 serial The Power of the Daleks.
• Its hieroglyph was figuratively depicted in art as a woman wearing a palm shoot (symbolizing time) over her head.

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