Definition of shoot

noun (n)

• a new branch (noun.plant)

  source: wordnet30
• the act of shooting at targets (noun.act)

  Example:
  They hold a shoot every weekend during the summer.
  

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• 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. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• hit with a missile from a weapon (verb.competition)

  Synonym: hit, pip
  

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• kill by firing a missile (verb.social)

  Synonym: pip
  

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• fire a shot (verb.competition)

  Synonym: blast
  

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• make a film or photograph of something (verb.communication)

  Synonym: film, take
  

  Example:
  Shoot a movie.
  

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• send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly (verb.motion)

  Example:
  Shoot a glance.
  

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• run or move very quickly or hastily (verb.motion)

  Synonym: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud
  

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• move quickly and violently (verb.motion)

  Synonym: buck, charge, shoot down, tear
  

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• throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective (verb.contact)

  Example:
  Shoot craps.
  Shoot a golf ball.
  

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• record on photographic film (verb.communication)

  Synonym: photograph, snap
  

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• emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully (verb.weather)

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• cause a sharp and sudden pain in (verb.perception)

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• force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing (verb.contact)

  Synonym: inject
  

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• variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors (verb.contact)

  Example:
  Shoot cloth.
  

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• throw dice, as in a crap game (verb.contact)

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• spend frivolously and unwisely (verb.consumption)

  Synonym: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away
  

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• score (verb.competition)

  Example:
  Shoot a basket.
  Shoot a goal.
  

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• utter fast and forcefully (verb.communication)

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• measure the altitude of by using a sextant (verb.cognition)

  Example:
  Shoot a star.
  

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• produce buds, branches, or germinate (verb.change)

  Synonym: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud
  

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• give an injection to (verb.body)

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• 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. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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