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sprint
English
Alternative forms
- sprunt (dialectal)
Etymology
Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Middle English sprenten, from Old English *sprentan, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijan?, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintan? (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprend?- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
sprint (plural sprints)
- A short race at top speed.
- A burst of speed or activity.
- (software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
Descendants
Translations
Verb
sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)
- (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.
Translations
Anagrams
- prints
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
sprint m
- sprint
Related terms
- sprintovat
- sprinter m
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spr?nt/
- Hyphenation: sprint
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints or sprinten, diminutive sprintje n)
- sprint
Derived terms
- eindsprint
- massasprint
- sprinten
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?int/
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints)
- sprint, short top-speed race.
Further reading
- “sprint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
sprint m (invariable)
- sprint (short, fast race)
- vivacity, brio
sprint f (invariable)
- A motor car having strong acceleration
Romanian
Etymology
From French sprint.
Noun
sprint n (plural sprinturi)
- sprint
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
spr?nt m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- sprint
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?p?int/, [es?p??n?t?]
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints)
- Alternative spelling of esprint
Further reading
- “sprint” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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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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