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Shoot

verb

(past & past part. shot; pres. part. shooting)

1.

Hit with a missile from a weapon. Synonyms: hit, pip.

2.

Kill by firing a missile. Synonym: pip.

3.

Fire a shot. Synonym: blast.

4.

Make a film or photograph of something. Synonyms: film, take. "Shoot a movie"

5.

Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.

6.

Run or move very quickly or hastily. Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud.

7.

Move quickly and violently. Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear. "He came charging into my office"

8.

Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective. "Shoot a golf ball"

9.

Record on photographic film. Synonyms: photograph, snap. "She snapped a picture of the President"

10.

Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.

11.

Cause a sharp and sudden pain in.

12.

Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing. Synonym: inject.

13.

Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors.

14.

Throw dice, as in a crap game.

15.

Spend frivolously and unwisely. Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away.

16.

Score. "Shoot a goal"

17.

Utter fast and forcefully.

18.

Measure the altitude of by using a sextant.

19.

Produce buds, branches, or germinate. Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud.

20.

Give an injection to. Synonym: inject.

noun

1.

A new branch.

2.

The act of shooting at targets.

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"Shoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... perfectly able to fire the gas. For all such purposes wooden implements only are best employed; but the remark does not apply to the hand-charging of a carbide-to-water generator through its proper shoot. Before passing to another subject, it may be remarked that a quantity of air far less than that which causes acetylene to become dangerous is objectionable, as its presence is apt to reduce the illuminating power of ...

— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

... of the whole United States just as well," remarked the Governor, steering the car slowly among the deep ruts. "We'll shoot the car around behind that pyramid of sawdust and walk a bit to ...

— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... the river's bank almost as the running stream itself. When we came to a sharp-jutting point, Captain Blaise himself, or me to the wheel, would let her fall away until her jib-boom lay over the opposite bank; and then, her sails well filled, it was shoot her up into the wind and past the point before us. Twenty times we had to weather a point of land in that fashion. Fill and shoot, fill and shoot, never a foot too soon, never a foot too late—it was a beautiful ...

— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly

... "has been no one special sinner whom you can take by the throat and punish. Indeed, if you must shoot anybody, it should be chiefly yourself, and after that your father, and mother, and sisters. But you need not talk of being black. Such sins are venial now-a-days, and convey nothing deeper than a light ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... to bring hither the best men from all three counties, and we were all proud that four of our own men should have held their own so well in such company, and especially that Tom, the miller's son, should have beaten the best of them. He is captain of the band, you know, but almost all the others shoot nigh as well; there is not one of them who cannot send an arrow straight into the face of a foe at a hundred and twenty yards. There were some others as good who would fain have been of the party, but our lady said she would take no married men, ...

— At Agincourt • G. A. Henty

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