Shoot

n.	1.	An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course. To take a shoot to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course.
v. t.	1.	To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; - followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object. [imp. & p. p. Shot ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shooting. The old participle Shotten is obsolete. See Shotten.] If you please To shoot an arrow that self way. - Shak.
	2.	To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; - followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; - often with off; as, to shoot a gun. The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another. - Boyle.
	3.	To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; - followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object. When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. - A. Tucker.
	4.	To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. - Beau. & Fl. A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. - Macaulay.
	5.	To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; - often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. - Ps. xxii. 7. Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting. - Dryden.
	6.	(Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing. Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel. - Moxon.
	7.	To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar. She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. - Dryden.
	8.	To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. - Tennyson. To be shot of to be discharged, cleared, or rid of.
v. i.	1.	To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; - said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides. The archers have . . . shot at him. - Gen. xlix. 23.
	2.	To discharge a missile; - said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
	3.	To be shot or propelled forcibly; - said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star. There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. - Dryden.
	4.	To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains. Thy words shoot through my heart. - Addison.
	5.	To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. These preachers make His head to shoot and ache. - Herbert.
	6.	To germinate; to bud; to sprout. Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. - Bacon. But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. - Dryden.
	7.	To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly. Well shot in years he seemed. - Spenser. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. - Thomson.
	8.	To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify. If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals. - Bacon.
	9.	To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory. There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. - Dickens.
	10.	(Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. To shoot ahead to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.
n.	1.	The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle. The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. - Bacon. One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. - Drayton.
	2.	A young branch or growth. Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. - Evelyn.
	3.	A rush of water; a rapid.
	4.	(Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
	5.	(Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
	6.	A shoat; a young hog.

Noun	1.	shoot - a new branch
	2.	shoot - the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"
Verb	1.	shoot - hit with a missile from a weapon Synonyms: pip, hit
	2.	shoot - kill by firing a missile Synonyms: pip
	3.	shoot - fire a shot
	4.	shoot - make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" Synonyms: film, take
	5.	shoot - send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"
	6.	shoot - run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" Synonyms: dash, scoot, scud, dart, flash
	7.	shoot - move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" Synonyms: shoot down, tear, buck, charge
	8.	shoot - throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
	9.	shoot - record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" Synonyms: photograph, snap
	10.	shoot - emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
	11.	shoot - cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"
	12.	shoot - force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" Synonyms: inject
	13.	shoot - variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth"
	14.	shoot - throw dice, as in a crap game
	15.	shoot - spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" Synonyms: fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate
	16.	shoot - score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
	17.	shoot - utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"
	18.	shoot - measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"
	19.	shoot - produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, sprout, spud, pullulate
	20.	shoot - give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" Synonyms: inject

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