Collins English-English Dictionary

shoot [ʃuːt]

1. 1. vt. [tr] to hit, wound, damage, or kill with a missile discharged from a weapon

2. 2. vt. to discharge (a missile or missiles) from a weapon

3. 3. vt. to fire (a weapon) or (of a weapon) to be fired

4. 4. vt. to send out or be sent out as if from a weapon

   he shot questions at her

5. 5. vi. [intr] to move very rapidly; dart

6. 6. vt. [tr] to slide or push into or out of a fastening

   to shoot a bolt

7. 7. vt. to emit (a ray of light) or (of a ray of light) to be emitted

8. 8. vt. [tr] to go or pass quickly over or through

   to shoot rapids

9. 9. vi. [intr] to hunt game with a gun for sport

10. 10. vt. [tr] to pass over (an area) in hunting game

11. 11. vt. to extend or cause to extend; project

12. 12. vt. [tr] to discharge down or as if down a chute

13. 13. vi. [intr] (of a plant) to produce (buds, branches, etc)

14. 14. vi. [intr] (of a seed) to germinate

15. 15. vi. to photograph or record (a sequence, subject, etc)

16. 16. vt. [tr; usually passive] to variegate or streak, as with colour

17. 17. vt. [sport] to hit or propel (the ball, etc) towards the goal

18. 18. vt. [tr] [sport] [chiefly US and Canadian] to score (points, strokes, etc)

    he shot 72 on the first round

19. 19. vt. [tr] to plane (a board) to produce a straight edge

20. 20. vt. [tr] [Mining] to detonate

21. 21. vt. [tr] to measure the altitude of (a celestial body)

22. 22. vt. [often foll by up] [Slang] to inject (someone, esp oneself) with (a drug, esp heroin)

23. 23. vt. See line

24. 24. vt. See bolt

25. 25. vt. See breeze

26. 26. n the act of shooting

27. 27. n the action or motion of something that is shot

28. 28. n the first aerial part of a plant to develop from a germinating seed

29. 29. n any new growth of a plant, such as a bud, young branch, etc

30. 30. n [chiefly Brit] a meeting or party organized for hunting game with guns

31. 31. n an area or series of coverts and woods where game can be hunted with guns

32. 32. n a steep descent in a stream; rapid

33. 33. n [Spoken] a photographic assignment

34. 34. n [geology] [Mining] a narrow workable vein of ore

35. 35. n [obsolete] the reach of a shot

36. 36. interj [US and Canadian] an exclamation expressing disbelief, scepticism, disgust, disappointment, etc

37. 37. interj See also shoot down shoot out shoot through shoot up

38. 38. interj [Etymology] Old English sceotan; related to Old Norse skjota, Old High German skiozan to shoot, Old Slavonic iskydati to throw out