different between tear vs shoot

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English teren, from Old English teran (“to tear, lacerate”), from Proto-Germanic *teran? (“to tear, tear apart, rip”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to tear, tear apart”). Cognate with Scots tere, teir, tair (“to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out”), Dutch teren (“to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption”), German zehren (“to consume, misuse”), German zerren (“to tug, rip, tear”), Danish tære (“to consume”), Swedish tära (“to fret, consume, deplete, use up”), Icelandic tæra (“to clear, corrode”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Ancient Greek ???? (dér?, “to skin”), Albanian ther (“to slay, skin, pierce”). Doublet of tire.

Pronunciation 1

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tâ, IPA^(key): /t??/
• (US) enPR: târ, IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: tare

Verb

tear (third-person singular simple present tears, present participle tearing, simple past tore, past participle torn or (now colloquial and nonstandard) tore)

2. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
   • 1886, Eleanor Marx-Aveling, translator, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856, Part III Chapter XI,

     He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.

3. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.

4. (transitive) To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.

5. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.

6. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.

7. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish

8. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.

9. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
   • 2019, Lana Del Rey, "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing":

     I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown. 24/7 Sylvia Plath.

10. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.

Synonyms

• (break): rend, rip
• (remove by tearing): rip out, tear off, tear out

Related terms

Translations

Noun

tear (plural tears)

1. A hole or break caused by tearing.

   A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.

2. (slang) A rampage.

   to go on a tear

Derived terms

• on a tear
• wear and tear

Translations

Derived terms

• tearsheet

Etymology 2

From Middle English teer, ter, tere, tear, from Old English t?ar, t?r, tæhher, teagor, *teahor (“drop; tear; what is distilled from anything in drops, nectar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tah(h)r, from Proto-Germanic *tahr? (“tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dá?ru- (“tears”).

Cognates include Old Norse tár (Danish tåre and Norwegian tåre), Old High German zahar (German Zähre), Gothic ???????????????? (tagr), Irish deoir and Latin lacrima.

Pronunciation 2

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA^(key): /t??/
• (General American) enPR: tîr, IPA^(key): /t??/
• Homophone: tier (layer or rank)

Noun

tear (plural tears)

2. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
3. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
4. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
5. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tear (third-person singular simple present tears, present participle tearing, simple past and past participle teared)

1. (intransitive) To produce tears.

   Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.

Translations

Anagrams

• 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, arte-, rate, tare, tera-

Galician

Etymology

Tea (“cloth”) +? -ar. Compare Portuguese tear and Spanish telar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?a?/

Noun

tear m (plural teares)

1. loom

References

• “tear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tear” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Middle English

Noun

tear

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of tere (“tear”)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *tah(h)r, from Proto-Germanic *tahr?.

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian t?r, Old High German zahar, Old Norse tár, Gothic ???????????????? (tagr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæ???r/

Noun

t?ar m

1. tear (drop of liquid from the tear duct)

Declension

Derived terms

• t?eran

Descendants

• English: tear

Portuguese

Etymology

From teia +? -ar.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /te.?a?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?tj.ar/
• Hyphenation: te?ar

Noun

tear m (plural teares)

1. loom (machine used to make cloth out of thread)
   • 1878, Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins, O hellenismo e a civilisação christan, publ. by the widow Bertand & Co., page 24.

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tear c (plural tearen, diminutive tearke)

1. fold
2. crease

Further reading

• “tear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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