shoot : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: shoot	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for shoot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shoot n a new branch the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer" v hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip] kill by firing a missile Synonym(s): shoot, pip fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" Synonym(s): blast, shoot make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" Synonym(s): film, shoot, take send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance" run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" Synonym(s): dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" Synonym(s): tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball" record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" Synonym(s): photograph, snap, shoot emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth" cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg" force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" Synonym(s): inject, shoot variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth" throw dice, as in a crap game spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" Synonym(s): fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal" utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer" measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star" produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" Synonym(s): shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" Synonym(s): inject, shoot
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shoot \Shoot\, n. 1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle. The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. --Bacon. One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. --Drayton. 2. A young branch or growth. Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. --Evelyn. 3. A rush of water; a rapid. 4. (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. --Knight. 5. (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick. 6. [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shoot \Shoot\, v. i. 1. 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. The archers have . . . shot at him. --Gen. xlix. 23. 2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well. 3. To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star. There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --Dryden. 4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains. Thy words shoot through my heart. --Addison. 5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. These preachers make His head to shoot and ache. --Herbert. 6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout. Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. --Bacon. But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. --Dryden. 7. To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly. Well shot in years he seemed. --Spenser. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. --Thomson. 8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify. If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals. --Bacon. 9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory. There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. --Dickens. 10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. {To shoot ahead}, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shoot \Shoot\, n. [F. chute. See {Chute}. Confused with shoot to let fly.] 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. [Written also {chute}, and {shute}.] [U. S.] {To take a shoot}, to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shoot \Shoot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shot}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shooting}. The old participle {Shotten} is obsolete. See {Shotten}.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i., sce[a2]tan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie[?]en, OHG. sciozan, Icel. skj[?]ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump. [root]159. Cf. {Scot} a contribution, {Scout} to reject, {Scud}, {Scuttle}, v. i., {Shot}, {Sheet}, {Shut}, {Shuttle}, {Skittish}, {Skittles}.] 1. 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. If you please To shoot an arrow that self way. --Shak. 2. To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun. The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another. --Boyle. 3. 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. When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. --A. Tucker. 4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl. A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. --Macaulay. 5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps. xxii. 7. Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting. --Dryden. 6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing. Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel. --Moxon. 7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar. She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. --Dryden. 8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. --Tennyson. {To be shot of}, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] [bd]Are you not glad to be shot of him?[b8] --Sir W. Scott.