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shoot English

Meaning shoot meaning

What does shoot mean?
Definitions in simple English

shoot Verb

— When you shoot, you use a weapon to throw something at a very fast speed at someone or something. The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could. — When you shoot something, you photograph or film something. At the zoo, I like to shoot many pictures of the animals. The film was mostly shot in France.

shoot Noun

— The shoot is the stem or bud of a plant. The seed I planted yesterday got a tiny shoot. — A less offensive way of saying shit. Oh shoot!

shoot Interjection

— You say shoot when you are angry or in disbelief; to condemn. Didn't you have a concert tonight? Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...

shoot

— verb (= hit) hit with a missile from a weapon — verb kill by firing a missile — verb (= blast) fire a shot the gunman blasted away — verb (= film, take) make a film or photograph of something take a scene shoot a movie — verb send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly shoot a glance — verb (= dash) run or move very quickly or hastily She dashed into the yard — verb throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective shoot craps shoot a golf ball — verb (= tear, charge) move quickly and violently The car tore down the street He came charging into my office — verb (= photograph, snap) record on photographic film I photographed the scene of the accident She snapped a picture of the President — verb utter fast and forcefully She shot back an answer — verb measure the altitude of by using a sextant shoot a star — verb score shoot a basket shoot a goal — verb throw dice, as in a crap game — verb variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors shoot cloth — verb cause a sharp and sudden pain in The pain shot up her leg — verb emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth — noun the act of shooting at targets they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer — noun a new branch — verb (= germinate, sprout) produce buds, branches, or germinate the potatoes sprouted — verb (= inject) give an injection to We injected the glucose into the patient's vein — verb (= inject) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing inject hydrogen into the balloon — verb (= fritter, fritter away) spend frivolously and unwisely Fritter away one's inheritance

Synonyms shoot synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as shoot?

shoot English » English

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Topics shoot topics

What do people use shoot to talk about?
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Person Life Die

Kill
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt
Universe, creation Sky

Sun
Person Life Stage of life

Grow, get bigger
Language and thought Think Learn

Evaluate, test
Social behavior Behavior Do good to

Do evil to
Daily life Fire

What fires produce
Work and occupation Work Method

Try, attempt
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move up
States Quantity More

Increase
States Big Long

Tall

Conjugation shoot conjugation

How do you conjugate shoot?

shoot · verb

Examples shoot examples

How do I use shoot in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I'm gonna shoot him.
The teacher began to shoot questions at me.
I will shoot him.
I didn't shoot anyone.
I'll shoot both of you.
I'm going to shoot him dead.
It is difficult to shoot a bird flying in the air.
Stop, or I'll shoot.
Don't move, or I'll shoot you.
He couldn't bring himself to shoot the deer.
He was scared you would shoot him.
Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
No man can know them, no hunter can shoot them, with powder and lead - Thoughts are free!
Wait, don't shoot!
It took several months to shoot that film.
I persuaded the policeman not to shoot the monkey.
Don't shoot the devil in the back. You might miss.
Wait, don't shoot at each other!
Wait, don't shoot yourself!

Movie subtitles

Shoot, dammit!
Did you really think you could get me to shoot you just by threatening me?
Shoot, I forgot to get that.
I'm trying to co-opt likely Santas for a photo shoot.
A photo shoot?
Would you be willing to don a Santa suit for a photo shoot?
What photo shoot?
In the meantime, I have a photo shoot set for first thing tomorrow.
Shoot.
I am ordering you to shoot!
We're talking about national TV just to see your man shoot the rock.
I'll shoot you all like dogs!
Everyone shoot!
Shoot, scum!
Wait for my signal to shoot.
If you shoot, you'll get court martialed!
Tell him I'll shoot him in the head if he lies.
If you shoot me, you will effectively extinguish the last hope of humanity.
No choice. I have to shoot it down.
I'll shoot you down like dogs!
Shoot this beast.
Take him out of town and shoot him.
Me not shoot!
NOT SHOOT!
SHOOT HIM!
SHOOT.
SHOOT NOW!
Shoot, I broke a nail!
Hey, Johnny, we should go shoot hoops after this. You wanna go shoot hoops?
I'd like to shoot hoops more than you can imagine.
They can't just shoot four blokes who just happened to go on holiday together.
Oh, shoot.
You sure you can shoot me?
We.shoot.white girl's father!
No, I don't want to shoot any Englishmen.
That fellow had to shoot with us for today with three hits.
I looked him right in the eye and told the big Bozo if he didn't marry me I'd shoot myself.
I'll shoot the first man that leaves my farm!
Son, you know I. I wasn't meaning' to shoot you.
They shoot too short.

News and current affairs

Use of America's vast strategic oil reserve will dampen world oil prices for a time, but when all is said and done, once hostilities with Iraq start, oil prices will shoot up.
Moreover, free-trade agreements are typically seen as politically valuable: countries tied by commerce are supposedly less likely to shoot at each other.
Europe, for its part, could agree not to shoot its recovery in the foot with ill-timed new taxes such as those that Germany is currently contemplating.
The time to shoot is now.
When football matches - at least those that must produce a winner - end in a draw, a penalty shoot-out must resolve the matter, as this World Cup has demonstrated so dramatically.
The shoot-out's individual competition for heroism or misery is really alien to such a team game as football, but it is accepted as a necessary way to resolve the stalemate.
Prices shoot up and they deem themselves brilliant.
We cannot simply shoot our way out of the problem.
Europe has succeeded in missing this goal for a half-century; now it has no choice but to shoot straight.
No one is going to shoot missiles into China or Russia for the sake of upholding human rights or international standards of warfare.
A good example is whether a storeowner may shoot looters who are escaping with his goods.
Is this not akin to a mugger pointing a gun at your head and threatening to shoot?
Part of the attraction of these synthetic drugs is that they are readily available, affordable, and convenient to use (no need to shoot up, snort, or smoke).
This concept was codified in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) Treaty, in which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to keep to a minimum their capacity to shoot down the ballistic missiles of the other side.
To shoot journalists in cold blood for printing a cartoon is a hideous crime.
GAZA CITY - The recent shoot-out in a Gaza mosque between Hamas security officers and militants from the radical jihadi group the Warriors of God brought to the surface the deep tensions that divide Palestinian Islamists.
The shoot-out in the mosque shows that Hamas will be ruthless in taking them on.
He was given to bombastic speeches, once warning newly sworn-in recruits that, if he so ordered, they would have to shoot their parents.
As soon as economic activity in the United States revives, interest rates on government bonds are liable to shoot up; indeed, the yield curve is likely to steepen in anticipation.
Nor was North Korea impressed by Obama's warnings that America might shoot down its rocket if they went ahead with their launch in defiance of the United Nations.
Kibaki's opponents took to the streets, the government issued shoot-to-kill orders, and hundreds have died at the hands of the police as well as from gang rampages and inter-ethnic violence.
If a tagged bear is caught two or more times causing disruption, the rangers have orders to shoot it.

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