shoot
pronunciation
How to pronounce shoot in British English:
UK [ʃuːt]
How to pronounce shoot in American English:
US [ʃuːt]
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- Noun:
- a new branch
- the act of shooting at targets
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- Verb:
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- kill by firing a missile
- fire a shot
- make a film or photograph of something
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- move quickly and violently
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- record on photographic film
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- score
- utter fast and forcefully
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- give an injection to
Word Origin
- shoot
- shoot: [OE] Like sheet, shout, shut, and perhaps skit [15], shoot goes back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *skeut-, *skaut-, *skut- ‘project’. This formed the basis of a verb *skeutan, which evolved into German schiessen, Dutch schieten, Swedish skjuta, and Danish skyde as well as English shoot. The noun shot comes from the same source.=> sheet, shot, shout, shut
- shoot (n.2)
- 1530s, "an act of shooting;" 1852 as "a shooting match or party," from shoot (v.).
- shoot (v.)
- Old English sceotan "to hurl missiles, cast; strike, hit, push; run, rush; send forth swiftly; wound with missiles" (class II strong verb; past tense sceat, past participle scoten), from Proto-Germanic *skeutanan (cognates: Old Saxon skiotan, Old Norse skjota "to shoot with (a weapon); shoot, launch, push, shove quickly," Old Frisian skiata, Middle Dutch skieten, Dutch schieten, Old High German skiozan, German schießen), from PIE root *skeud- "to shoot, to chase, to throw, to project" (cognates: Sanskrit skundate "hastens, makes haste," Old Church Slavonic iskydati "to throw out," Lithuanian skudrus "quick, nimble"). In reference to pool playing, from 1926. Meaning "to strive (for)" is from 1967, American English. Sense of "descend (a river) quickly" is from 1610s. Meaning "to inject by means of a hypodermic needle" is attested from 1914. Meaning "photograph" (especially a movie) is from 1890. As an interjection, an arbitrary euphemistic alteration of shit, it is recorded from 1934. Shoot the breeze "chat" first recorded 1941. Shoot-'em-up (adj.) in reference to violent entertainment (Western movies, etc.) is from 1942. Shoot to kill first attested 1867. Shoot the cat "to vomit" is from 1785. To shoot the moon originally meant "depart by night with ones goods to escape back rent" (1829). O, 'tis cash makes such crowds to the gin shops roam, And 'tis cash often causes a rumpus at home ; 'Tis when short of cash people oft shoot the moon ; And 'tis cash always keeps our pipes in tune. Cash! cash! &c. ["The Melodist and Mirthful Olio, An Elegant Collection of the Most Popular Songs," vol. IV, London, 1829]
- shoot (n.1)
- "young branch of a tree or plant," mid-15c., from shoot (v.). Also "heavy, sudden rush of water" (1610s); "artificial channel for water running down" (1707); "conduit for coal, etc." (1844).
Example
- 1. How do you shoot a film without a screenplay ?
- 2. Will we shoot virtuallyat each other over the internet ?
- 3. You didn 't shoot yourself after all .
- 4. And you have 40 seconds to shoot each arrow .
- 5. So I decided to only shoot my own stuff .