shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sho͞ot
ipa: /ʃuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: chute
Forms: form: shoots
Etymology: From Middle English shoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.
Senses: examples: text: Prune off yet also superfluous branches, and shoots of this second spring.
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: From the bonfire of last autumn's HS2 decision, there are green shoots pushing through the ashes.
ref: 2024 April 3, Philip Haigh, “Comment: A new, better version of HS2”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 3:
glosses: The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50:
glosses: A photography session.
glosses: A hunt or shooting competition.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
examples: text: The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:
glosses: The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
glosses: A rush of water; a rapid.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
glosses: A shoat; a young pig.
examples: text: where to find a shoot of ore opposite one they may have taken away on a parallel lode
ref: 1853, Thomas McElrath, William Jewett Tenney, William Phipps Blake, The Mining Magazine and Journal of Geology, Mineralogy, Metallurgy:
text: 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...
topics: business
mining
glosses: A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
examples: text: That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timber shoot was worked by the defendant company.
ref: 1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports, volume 12, page 238:
glosses: An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
examples: text: Once the last line of cable has been retrieved, there is little evidence that a shoot has been conducted.
ref: 1980, The Williston Basin, 1980, page 159:
glosses: A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
Derived terms: sense: hunt or shooting competition
word: turkey shoot
word: angle-shoot
word: bamboo shoot
word: duck shoot
word: green shoots
word: shoot bug
word: shoot fly
word: shoot wrestling
word: slop shoot
word: sugarcane grassy shoot disease
word: the whole bang shoot
word: trap shoot