different between rush vs shoot

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophone: Rush
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English risshe, rusch, risch, from Old English rysc, risc, from Proto-West Germanic *ruskij?, borrowed from Latin r?scum (“butcher's broom”) + *-j? (animal and plant suffix). Cognates include West Frisian risk, Dutch rus (“bulrush”), Norwegian Bokmål rusk, dialectal Norwegian ryskje (“hair-grass”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
2. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
3. The merest trifle; a straw.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush.

4. A wick.

Synonyms

• (plant of the genus Juncus): juncus

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrys?an (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-Germanic *hurskijan? (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run, hurry”).

Cognate with Old High German hurscan (“to speed, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. A sudden forward motion.
   • 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers

     A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke.
2. A surge.

3. General haste.

4. A rapid, noisy flow.

5. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
6. (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.

   Synonym: zerg

7. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.

8. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.

9. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.

10. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

11. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
12. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
   • c. 1683, Robert West, The further Exmaination of Robert West of the Middle-Temple, Barrister at Law

     A party of men […] shoud be ready to rush out; and upon the noise of the first shot immediately run down to the Gate and break in.
2. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
3. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
4. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
5. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

6. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
7. (military) To swiftly attack without warning.
8. (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.

   Synonym: zerg

9. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing or initiation in order to join a fraternity or sorority.
10. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.

11. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
12. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rush (hurry)

Derived terms

• downrush
• rushing

Translations

Adjective

rush (not comparable)

1. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

Usage notes

Used only before a noun.

See also

• rushes

Further reading

• Juncaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rush_(football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hurs, RHUs, Suhr

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha or rushene)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rush” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: chute

Etymology 1

From Middle English shoten, from Old English sc?otan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutan?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”). 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 ??????? (kidát?), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian ???? (?ost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.

Verb

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

1. To launch a projectile.
   1. (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).

   2. (transitive) To fire (a projectile).

      Synonym: (of an arrow) loose
   3. (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).

   4. (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.

   5. (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
   6. (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
      • 1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)

        Although the estate had been shot previously, there had been no effective keepering and little success with the pheasants released.

   7. (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.

   8. (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.

   9. (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.

   10. (transitive, figuratively) To dismiss or do away with.

   11. (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
   12. (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.

   13. (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
2. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
   1. (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.

      • There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.

      • 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.
   2. To go over or pass quickly through.

      • She [...] shoots the Stygian sound.

      • 2005, R. G. Crouch, The Coat: The Origin and Times of Doggett's Famous Wager (page 40)

        It was approaching the time when watermen would not shoot the bridge even without a passenger aboard.

   3. (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
   4. (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.

      • Thy words shoot through my heart.

   5. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

      • These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.

   6. (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
      • 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.

   7. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
      • c. 1608-1610, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb

        an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
   8. (informal, transitive) To send to someone.

3. (sports) To act or achieve.
   1. (wrestling) To lunge.
   2. (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 script).
   3. To make the stated score.

4. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
5. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
6. To develop, move forward.
   1. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
      • 1709, John Dryden, Georgics

        But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.

   2. To grow; to advance.

      • Well shot in years he seemed.

      • 1728, James Thomson, "Spring"

        Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot.

   3. (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
   4. (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
   1. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.

      • They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.

      • Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.

7. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 49

     There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.

8. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
   • 1677, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works

     two Pieces of Wood are Shot (that is Plained) or else they are Pared [...] with a Pairing-chissel

9. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Dying Swan

     The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.

10. (card games) To shoot the moon.
11. (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:shoot.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: xut
• ? Greek: ???? (sout)
• ? Persian: ???? (šut)
• ? Portuguese: chuto, chute
• ? Romanian: ?ut
• ? Vietnamese: sút

Translations

Noun

shoot (plural shoots)

1. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

   • Prune off yet also 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.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion

     One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.

6. A rush of water; a rapid.
7. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
8. A shoat; a young pig.
9. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
   • 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

     In the western dike is a shoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling of cassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. The shoot contains a large amount of muscovite mica with quartz and very little or no feldspar...

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

10. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
    • 1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports (volume 12, page 238)

      That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timber shoot was worked by the defendant company.

11. (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

Derived terms

• (hunt or shooting competition): turkey shoot

Descendants

• Catalan: xut
• Portuguese: chuto

Translations

Etymology 2

Minced oath for shit.

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...

Synonyms

• (mild expletive): darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks, sugar

Translations

Anagrams

• Hoots, Htoos, Sotho, hoots, sooth, toosh