shoot

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To hit, wound, or kill with a missile fired from a weapon.
2. v. To remove or destroy by firing or projecting a missile: shot out the window.
3. v. To make (a hole, for example) by firing a weapon.
4. v. To fire or let fly (a missile) from a weapon.
5. v. To discharge (a weapon).
6. v. To detonate or cause to explode: shot off a firecracker.
7. v. To inject (a drug, for example) with a hypodermic syringe.
8. v. To throw out or release (a fishing line, for example).
9. v. To send forth suddenly, intensely, or swiftly: The burning building shot sparks onto the adjacent roof. He shot an angry look at me.
10. v. To emit (a ray or rays of light or another form of energy).
11. v. To utter (sounds or words) forcefully, rapidly, or suddenly: She shot a retort to the insult.
12. v. Slang To give, send, or hand quickly: Shoot me that stapler.
13. v. Informal To spend, use up, or waste: They shot their savings on a new boat.
14. v. To pass over or through swiftly: shooting the rapids.
15. v. To cover (country) in hunting for game.
16. v. To record on film: shot the scene in one take.
17. v. To cause to project or protrude; extend: shot out her arm to prevent the bottle from falling.
18. v. To begin to grow or produce; put forth.
19. v. To pour, empty out, or discharge down or as if down a chute: shot gravel into the hole.
20. v. Sports & Games To throw or propel (a ball, marble, or other projectile in a game) in a specific direction or toward the objective.
21. v. Sports & Games To accomplish (the objective) of a game involving a projectile; score (a point, basket, or goal).
22. v. Sports & Games To play (a game involving projectiles, such as golf or pool).
23. v. Sports & Games To attain (a given score) in golf.
24. v. Sports & Games To play (a game involving dice, especially craps).
25. v. Sports & Games To throw (the dice or a given score) in craps.
26. v. To slide (the bolt of a lock) into or out of its fastening.
27. v. To plane (the edge of a board) straight.
28. v. To variegate (colored cloth) by interweaving weft threads of a different color.
29. v. To measure the altitude of with a sextant or other instrument: shot the star.
30. v. To discharge a missile from a weapon.
31. v. To discharge or fire; go off.
32. v. To gush or spurt: Water shot out of the geyser.
33. v. To appear suddenly: The sun shot through a break in the clouds.
34. v. To move swiftly; dart.
35. v. To be felt moving or as if moving in the body: Pain shot through my lower leg.
36. v. To protrude; project: The headland shoots far out into the sea.
37. v. To engage in hunting or the firing of weapons, especially for sport: is shooting in Scotland during the fall.
38. v. To put forth new growth; germinate.
39. v. To take pictures.
40. v. To film a scene in a movie.
41. v. Sports & Games To propel a ball or other object toward the goal or in a specific direction or manner.
42. v. Games To throw dice.
43. v. Slang To begin talking. Often used in the imperative: I know you have something to tell me, so shoot!
44. v. To slide into or out of a fastening. Used of the bolt of a lock.
45. n. The motion or movement of something that is propelled, driven, or discharged.
46. n. The young growth arising from a germinating seed; a sprout.
47. n. A bud, young leaf, or other new growth on a plant.
48. n. A narrow, swift, or turbulent section of a stream.
49. n. The act of discharging a weapon or letting fly a missile.
50. n. Informal The launching of a rocket or similar missile.
51. n. An organized shooting activity, such as a skeet tournament or hunt.
52. n. A round of shots in a contest with firearms.
53. n. A session in which something is photographed, filmed, or videotaped.
54. n. The distance a shot travels; the range.
55. n. Nautical The interval between strokes in rowing.
56. n. A sharp twinge or spasm of pain.
57. n. An inclined channel for moving something; a chute.
58. n. A body of ore in a vein.
59. interj. Used to express surprise, mild annoyance, or disappointment.
60. shoot down To bring down (an aircraft, for example) by hitting and damaging with gunfire or a missile.
61. shoot down Informal To ruin the aspirations of; disappoint.
62. shoot down To put an end to; defeat: shot down the proposal.
63. shoot down To expose as false; discredit: shot down his theory.
64. for Informal To strive or aim for; have as a goal.
65. shoot up Informal To grow or get taller rapidly.
66. shoot up To increase dramatically in amount.
67. shoot up To riddle with bullets.
68. shoot up To damage or terrorize (a town, for example) by intense or random gunfire.
69. shoot up Slang To inject a drug with a hypodermic syringe.
70. idiom. shoot from the hip Slang To act or speak on a matter without forethought.
71. idiom. mouth Slang To speak indiscreetly.
72. idiom. mouth Slang To brag; boast.
73. idiom. shoot (one's) bolt Slang To do all within one's power; exhaust all of one's resources or capabilities.
74. idiom. shoot (one's) wad Slang To spend all of one's cash.
75. idiom. shoot (one's) wad Slang To use up all of one's energy or resources.
76. idiom. shoot straight To talk or deal honestly.
77. idiom. breeze Slang To spend time talking; talk idly.
78. idiom. shoot the works Informal To expend all of one's efforts or capital.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To dart forth; rush or move along rapidly; dart along.
2. To be emitted, as light, in darting rays or flashes: as, the aurora shot up to the zenith.
3. To dart along, as pain through the nerves; hence, to be affected with sharp darting pains.
4. To come forth, as a plant; put forth buds or shoots; sprout; germinate.
5. To increase rapidly in growth; grow quickly taller or larger: often with up.
6. To send out spicula; condense into spicula or shoots, as in crystallization.
7. To lie as if pushed out; project; jut; stretch.
8. To perform the act of discharging a missile, as from an engine, a bow, or a gun; fire.
9. Specifically, to follow or practise the sport of killing birds or other game, large or small, with a gun; hunt.
10. To go out shooting with (a dog or dogs): said of sportsmen.
11. To hunt upon: as, to shoot over a moor.
12. To send out or forth with a sudden or violent motion; discharge, propel, expel. or empty with rapidity or violence: especially, to turn out or dump, as the contents of a cart by tilting it.
13. To emit, as a ray; dart.
14. To drive, cast, or throw, as a shuttle in weaving.
15. To push or thrust sharply in any direction; dart forth; protrude.
16. To put forth or extend in any direction by growth or by causing growth: as, a tree shoots its branches over the wall: often with up or out.
17. To let fly, or cause to be propelled, as an arrow by releasing the bowstring, or a bullet or ball by igniting the charge.
18. To discharge (a missile weapon), as a bow by releasing its string, or a gun by igniting its charge: often with off.
19. To strike with anything shot; hit, wound, or kill with a missile discharged from a weapon; put to death or execute by shooting.
20. To pass rapidly through, under, or over: as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge.
21. In mining, to blast.
22. To set or place, as a net; run out into position, as a seine from the boat; pay out; lay out: as, the lines were shot across the tide.
23. To hunt over; kill game in or on.
24. In carpentry, to plane straight, or fit by planing.
25. To variegate, as by sprinkling or intermingling different colors; give a changing color to; color in spots, patches, or threads; streak; especially, in weaving, to variegate or render changeable in color by the intermixture of a warp and weft of different colors: chiefly in the past participle. See shot, participial adjective
26. n. The act of shooting; the discharge, as of a missile weapon; a shot.
27. n. A match at shooting; also, a shooting-party.
28. n. A young branch which shoots out from the main stock; hence, an annual growth, as the annual layer of growth on the shell of an oyster.
29. n. A sprouting horn or antler.
30. n. Range; reach; shooting distance; shot. Compare ear-shot, and shot, n., 5.
31. n. The thrust of an arch.
32. n. One movement of the shuttle between the threads of the warp, toward the right or left; also, the thread put into its place in a web by this movement; hence, a thread or strand of the weft of any textile.
33. n. In mining:
34. n. An accumulation or mass of ore in a vein, of considerable extent and having some regularity of form; a chimney. See chimney, 4 . In some mines the shoots or chimneys of ore have, although narrow, a remarkable persistency in depth and parallelism with each other.
35. n. A sloping trough, or a long narrow box vertically arranged, for conveying articles to a receptacle below, or for discharging ballast, ashes, etc., overboard from a ship; also, an inclined waterway for floating logs: as, a shoot for grain, for coal, for mail-matter, for soiled clothes, etc.; also, a passageway on the side of a steep hill down which wood, coal, etc., are thrown or slid.
36. n. A place for shooting rubbish into.
37. n. A river-fall or rapid, especially one over which timber is floated or through which boats or canoes can shoot.
38. n. An artificial contraction of the channel of a stream in order to increase the depth of the water.
39. n. A part of a dam permanently open or opened at pleasure for any purpose, as to relieve the pressure at a time of high water or to permit the down ward passage of timber or boats.
40. n. The game of shovelboard.
41. n. A crick in the neck.
42. n. A narrow, steep lane.
43. In cricket, to bound low and close to the ground after pitching: said of a ball bowled.
44. To cast or drop, as the claw of a lobster.
45. n. A district or estate over which game is shot.
46. n. See sprout, 1 .

Wiktionary

1. v. To fire a projectile or energy weapon at.
2. v. To hit with a projectile or energy beam from such a weapon.
3. v. To move very quickly and suddenly.
4. v. To dismiss or do away with.
5. v. To photograph.
6. v. To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed-to script).
7. v. To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
8. v. To make the stated score.
9. v. To ejaculate.
10. v. To go over or pass quickly through.
11. v. To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
12. v. To inject. For example heroin.
13. n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
14. n. A photography session.
15. n. In professional wrestling, an event that is unscripted or legitimate.
16. interj. Yes, please do.
17. interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. v. 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.
3. v. To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off.
4. v. 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.
5. v. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
6. v. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out.
7. v. To plane straight; to fit by planing.
8. v. To pass rapidly through, over, or under
9. v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
10. v. To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent.
11. v. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument.
12. v. To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled.
13. v. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
14. v. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
15. v. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
16. v. To grow; to advance.
17. v. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
18. v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
19. v. To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
20. n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
21. n. A young branch or growth.
22. n. A rush of water; a rapid.
23. n. A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
24. n. A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
25. n. A shoat; a young hog.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
2. v. emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
3. v. score.
4. v. send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
5. v. utter fast and forcefully
6. v. force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
7. n. a new branch
8. v. give an injection to
9. v. measure the altitude of by using a sextant
10. v. produce buds, branches, or germinate
11. v. make a film or photograph of something
12. v. fire a shot
13. v. hit with a missile from a weapon
14. v. spend frivolously and unwisely
15. v. move quickly and violently
16. v. kill by firing a missile
17. v. run or move very quickly or hastily
18. v. throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
19. n. the act of shooting at targets
20. v. cause a sharp and sudden pain in
21. v. throw dice, as in a crap game
22. v. record on photographic film