Word: shoot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwdeti? Proto-Germanic *skuttōnąbf.? Proto-Germanic *skeutaną Proto-West Germanic *skeutan Old English sċēotan Middle English schoten English shoot Inherited from Middle English scheten, schoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, thematic present of *(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. Pronunciation: /ʃuːt/, /ʃʉwt/, /ʃut/, /ʃʉːt/, /ʃʉt/ 1. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: transitive Example: to shoot a gun 2. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: transitive Example: If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way. 3. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: transitive Example: The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could. Example: The hunter shot the deer to harvest its meat. 4. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: intransitive Example: They shot at a target. Example: He shoots better than he rides. 5. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: intransitive Example: They're coming to shoot with us on Sunday. Example: The place was called the House of More, and I had shot at it once or twice in recent years. 6. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: transitive Example: Although the estate had been shot previously, there had been no effective keepering and little success with the pheasants released. 7. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Example: Then, when it was his turn to shoot, he reached out with a completely empty hand and caught the dice the stickman threw to him. 8. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: slang, transitive Example: After a very short time, he shot his load over the carpet. 9. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: colloquial, imperative, intransitive Example: "Can I ask you a question?" "Shoot." Example: "And now," I suggested, "I think it's about time we began to rough out a plan of campaign. Shall I throw around a few observations first?" […] Josella blew out a feather of smoke and took a sip of her drink. Savouring the flavour, she said: "I wonder whether we shall ever taste fresh oranges again? Okay, shoot." 10. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: intransitive Example: The gun shoots well. 11. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: His idea was shot on sight. 12. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: He shot the couple in a variety of poses. Example: He shot seventeen stills. 13. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The film was mostly shot in France. 14. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. Labels: transitive Example: There was no answer, so I took the big key, rubbed some salad oil into the wards, and after one or two bad shots, for my hands were shaking, managed to fit it, and shoot the lock. 15. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Labels: intransitive Example: After an initial lag, the experimental group's scores shot past the control group's scores in the fourth week. Example: As soon as the dog appeared, the cat shot underneath the couch. 16. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Example: shoot the rapids Example: She […] shoots the Stygian sound. 17. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Example: One of the fishermen was really stoked. He was trying to shoot the shore break in his canoe. 18. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Labels: transitive 19. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Labels: transitive Example: a shooting pain in my leg Example: Thy words shoot through my heart. 20. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache. 21. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Labels: obsolete Example: If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals. Example: 1802, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII. The north-east [wind] is loaded with vapor, insomuch, that the salt-makers have found that their crystals would not shoot while that blows. 22. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Example: an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle Example: a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores 23. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Labels: ditransitive, informal Example: I'll shoot you an email with all the details 24. To move or act quickly or suddenly. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: Is that the time already? I've got to shoot. 25. To act or achieve. 26. To act or achieve. 27. To act or achieve. Example: In my round of golf yesterday I shot a 76. 28. To measure the distance and direction to (a point). 29. To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously. Labels: colloquial, intransitive, transitive 30. To develop, move forward. Example: Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. Example: But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. 31. To develop, move forward. Example: to shoot up rapidly Example: Well shot in years he seemed. 32. To develop, move forward. 33. To develop, move forward. Labels: transitive Example: `Take the tiller, Mahomed!' I roared in Arabic. `We must try and shoot them.' At the same moment I seized an oar, and got it out, motioning to Job to do likewise. 34. To develop, move forward. Example: A plant shoots out a bud. Example: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. 35. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend. Example: The land shoots into a promontory. Example: There is 432 Park Avenue, a surreal square tube of white concrete that appears to shoot twice as high as anything around it, its endless Cartesian grid of windows framing worlds of solid marble bathtubs and climate-controlled wine cellars within. 36. To plane straight; to fit by planing. Example: two Pieces of Wood are Shot (that is Plained) or else they are Pared [...] with a Pairing-chissel 37. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia) Example: The tangled water-courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. 38. To shoot the moon. 39. To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway). Example: He tried to shoot the visual approach to runway 12, but the visibility was too low. 40. To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil. Example: Once the area is ready to "shoot," the seismic crew places geophones and cables along the line of the profile to be recorded. 41. To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage). Example: You can kiss a hundred boys in bars Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling