SHOOT (shot)

Pronunciation (US):

• SHOOT (noun)
  The noun SHOOT has 2 senses:

1. a new branch
2. the act of shooting at targets

  Familiarity information: SHOOT used as a noun is rare.

• SHOOT (verb)
  The verb SHOOT has 20 senses:

1. hit with a missile from a weapon
2. kill by firing a missile
3. fire a shot
4. make a film or photograph of something
5. send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
6. run or move very quickly or hastily
7. move quickly and violently
8. throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
9. record on photographic film
10. emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
11. cause a sharp and sudden pain in
12. force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
13. variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
14. throw dice, as in a crap game
15. spend frivolously and unwisely
16. score
17. utter fast and forcefully
18. measure the altitude of by using a sextant
19. produce buds, branches, or germinate
20. give an injection to

  Familiarity information: SHOOT used as a verb is very familiar.

• SHOOT (noun)

Sense 1

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A new branch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("shoot" is a kind of...):

sprout (any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shoot"):

sucker (a shoot arising from a plant's roots)

tiller (a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass)

Sense 2

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

The act of shooting at targets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer

Hypernyms ("shoot" is a kind of...):

shooting; shot (the act of firing a projectile)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shoot"):

skeet; skeet shooting; trapshooting (the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird)

• SHOOT (verb)

Sense 1

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Hit with a missile from a weapon

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

shoot; pip; hit

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shoot"):

kneecap (shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning)

grass (shoot down, of birds)

gun down (strike down or shoot down)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Kill by firing a missile

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

pip; shoot

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shoot"):

flight (shoot a bird in flight)

pick off (shoot one by one)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to shoot the prisoners

Sense 3

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Fire a shot

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

discharge; fire (cause to go off)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shoot"):

blaze; blaze away (shoot rapidly and repeatedly)

overshoot (shoot beyond or over (a target))

sharpshoot; snipe (aim and shoot with great precision)

fire; open fire (start firing a weapon)

gun (shoot with a gun)

pump (deliver forth)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 4

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Make a film or photograph of something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

film; shoot; take

Context examples:

take a scene / shoot a movie

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Domain category:

film; flick; motion picture; motion-picture show; movie; moving picture; moving-picture show; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shoot"):

reshoot (shoot again)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue shoot the movie

Sense 5

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

shoot a glance

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

cast; contrive; project; throw (put or send forth)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Run or move very quickly or hastily

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

scud; scoot; dash; dart; flash; shoot

Context example:

She dashed into the yard

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed (step on it)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shoot"):

plunge (dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 7

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Move quickly and violently

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

shoot down; buck; tear; charge; shoot

Context examples:

The car tore down the street / He came charging into my office

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed (step on it)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shoot"):

rip (move precipitously or violently)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Also:

shoot up (rise dramatically)

Sense 8

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context examples:

shoot craps / shoot a golf ball

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

hit (cause to move by striking)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shoot"):

knuckle (shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground)

bogey (to shoot in one stroke over par)

double bogey (to shoot two strokes over par)

double birdie (to shoot two strokes under par)

birdie (to shoot in one stroke under par)

carom (make a carom)

chip (play a chip shot)

break (make the opening shot that scatters the balls)

dunk (make a dunk shot, in basketball)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 9

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Record on photographic film

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

photograph; shoot; snap

Context examples:

I photographed the scene of the accident / She snapped a picture of the President

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shoot"):

x-ray (take an x-ray of something or somebody)

retake (photograph again)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 10

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Context example:

The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

emit; give off; give out (give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 11

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Cause a sharp and sudden pain in

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

The pain shot up her leg

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

ache; hurt; smart (be the source of pain)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 12

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

inject; shoot

Context example:

inject hydrogen into the balloon

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (introduce)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sentence examples:

They shoot the fruit with a chemical
They shoot a chemical into the fruit

Sense 13

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

shoot cloth

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

interweave; weave (interlace by or as it by weaving)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 14

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Throw dice, as in a crap game

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

throw (throw (a die) out onto a flat surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 15

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Spend frivolously and unwisely

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

frivol away; fritter away; fritter; fool away; fool; dissipate; shoot

Context example:

Fritter away one's inheritance

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

consume; squander; ware; waste (spend extravagantly)

"Shoot" entails doing...:

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 16

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Score

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Context examples:

shoot a basket / shoot a goal

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

hit; rack up; score; tally (gain points in a game)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 17

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Utter fast and forcefully

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

She shot back an answer

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 18

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Measure the altitude of by using a sextant

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

shoot a star

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

measure; measure out; mensurate (determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 19

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Produce buds, branches, or germinate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

sprout; germinate; burgeon forth; bourgeon; spud; pullulate; shoot

Context example:

the potatoes sprouted

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

grow (increase in size by natural process)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 20

shoot [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Give an injection to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

inject; shoot

Context example:

We injected the glucose into the patient's vein

Hypernyms (to "shoot" is one way to...):

administer; dispense (give or apply (medications))

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shoot"):

infuse (introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes)

immunise; immunize; inoculate; vaccinate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something