Saturday, March 30, 2013

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: shoot

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* Korean: {{t+|ko|쏘다|tr=ssoda|sc=Hang}}

  

* Korean: {{t+|ko|쏘다|tr=ssoda|sc=Hang}}
 

* Norwegian: {{t+|no|skyte}}

  

* Norwegian: {{t+|no|skyte}}
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* Persian: {{t|fa|زدن|tr=zadan|sc=fa-Arab}}
 

* Polish: {{t-|pl|postrzelić}}

  

* Polish: {{t-|pl|postrzelić}}
 

* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|atirar}}

  

* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|atirar}}

Latest revision as of 01:45, 31 March 2013

Contents

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutanan, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keud-. Cognate with Dutch schieten, German schießen, Swedish skjuta; and also Russian кидать (kidát'), Albanian hedh ("to throw, toss") and Lithuanian skudrùs.

[edit] Verb

shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot, or rarely shotten)

  1. (transitive) To fire a projectile or energy weapon at.
    The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could.
  2. (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
    — Can I ask you a question?
    — Shoot.
    — Okay, when was the battle of Hastings fought?
  3. (transitive) To hit with a projectile or energy beam from such a weapon.
    He was shot by a police officer.
  4. (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
    After an initial lag, the experimental group's scores shot past the control group's scores in the fourth week.
    • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
      It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
  5. (transitive) To dismiss or do away with.
    His idea was shot on sight.
  6. (transitive) To photograph.
    He shot the couple in a variety of poses.
    He shot seventeen stills.
  7. (wrestling) To lunge.
  8. (professional wrestling) 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).
  9. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
  10. (sports) To make the stated score.
    In my round of golf yesterday I shot a 76.
  11. (slang) To ejaculate.
    After a very short time, he shot his load over the carpet.
  12. To go over or pass quickly through.
    shoot the rapids
  13. (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
  14. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
[edit] Quotations
[edit] Derived terms

Terms derived from shoot (verb)

[edit] Translations

to fire a shot

to fire multiple shots

to hit with a shot

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[edit] Noun

shoot (plural shoots)

  1. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
    • Evelyn
      Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.
  2. A photography session.
  3. A hunt or shooting competition.
  4. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
  5. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
    • Francis Bacon
      The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.
    • Drayton
      One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
  6. A rush of water; a rapid.
  7. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
  8. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
  9. A shoat; a young pig.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations

emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant

photography session

[edit] Etymology 2

euphemism for shit

[edit] Interjection

shoot

  1. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain
    Didn't you have a concert tonight?
    Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Translations

expressing disbelief

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