shoot
Meaning
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- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- (slang) To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To launch a projectile.
- To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- (obsolete) To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- (obsolete) To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- (informal) To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- To act or achieve.
- To act or achieve.
- To act or achieve.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To develop, move forward.
- To develop, move forward.
- To develop, move forward.
- To develop, move forward.
- To develop, move forward.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- To shoot the moon.
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃuːt/
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.
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