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shoot
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)
- To launch a projectile.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- Synonym: (of an arrow) loose
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (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.
- 1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To dismiss or do away with.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- (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.
- 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.
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- Thy words shoot through my heart.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
- These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.
- (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.
- 1802, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII.
- 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
- c. 1608-1610, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb
- (informal, transitive) To send to someone.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (sports) To act or achieve.
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- (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).
- To make the stated score.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To develop, move forward.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- 1709, John Dryden, Georgics
- But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.
- 1709, John Dryden, Georgics
- 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.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- 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.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- 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.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 49
- (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
- 1677, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works
- 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.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Dying Swan
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (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)
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- Prune off yet also superfluous branches, and shoots of this second spring.
- A photography session.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- 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.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- (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?)
- 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
- 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.
- 1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports (volume 12, page 238)
- (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
- 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
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shool
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English shovele, schovel, showell, shoule, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English s?ofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skufl?, *sk?fl? (“shovel”), equivalent to shove +? -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).
Noun
shool (plural shools)
- (obsolete or dialectal) A shovel.
- 1611 And the pots, and the shouels, and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 1611 edition)
- 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition)
- (obsolete or dialectal) A spade.
- 2010 "shool spade see shovel" (A Bibliography of English Etymology, Volumes 1-2 by Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson, U of Minnesota Press, 2010, page 785)
Verb
shool (third-person singular simple present shools, present participle shooling, simple past and past participle shooled)
- To move materials with a shovel.
- The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
- (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
- 1898 The Winter's Tale [Annotated] by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, [Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives: 'Shool, A shovel' and 'To shool on, metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'
- To shuffle or shamble.
- To go about begging.
References
- Lexic.us, Retrieved 2013-02-14
- Definition of Shool 1. to shovel [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: shovel
- TheFreeDictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14
- shool n (Engineering / Tools) a dialect word for shovel,
- Dictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14
- shool — n a dialect word for shovel,
- Merriam-Webster.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14
- Definition of SHOOL...
- 1 chiefly dial : to drag or scrape along : shamble, shuffle
- 2: to loaf or idle about begging : loiter, saunter
Etymology 2
Noun
shool (plural shools)
- Dated form of shul (“Ashkenazic synagogue”).
Anagrams
- Loosh, holos, hools
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