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Shot   /ʃɑt/   Listen
Shot

noun
1.
The act of firing a projectile.  Synonym: shooting.
2.
A solid missile discharged from a firearm.  Synonym: pellet.
3.
(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand.  Synonym: stroke.  "A good shot requires good balance and tempo" , "He left me an almost impossible shot"
4.
A chance to do something.  Synonym: crack.
5.
A person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot).  Synonym: shooter.  "A poor shooter"
6.
A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film.  Synonym: scene.
7.
The act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe.  Synonym: injection.
8.
A small drink of liquor.  Synonym: nip.
9.
An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.  Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, slam.  "She threw shafts of sarcasm" , "She takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
10.
An estimate based on little or no information.  Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, guesswork.
11.
An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera.  Synonyms: snap, snapshot.  "He tried to get unposed shots of his friends"
12.
Sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put.
13.
An explosive charge used in blasting.
14.
A blow hard enough to cause injury.  "I caught him with a solid shot to the chin"
15.
An attempt to score in a game.
16.
Informal words for any attempt or effort.  Synonym: stab.  "He took a stab at forecasting"
17.
The launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination.  Synonym: blastoff.
adjective
1.
Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles.  Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent.  "Chatoyant (or shot) silk" , "A dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"


Shoot

verb
(past & past part. shot; pres. part. shooting)
1.
Hit with a missile from a weapon.  Synonyms: hit, pip.
2.
Kill by firing a missile.  Synonym: pip.
3.
Fire a shot.  Synonym: blast.
4.
Make a film or photograph of something.  Synonyms: film, take.  "Shoot a movie"
5.
Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.
6.
Run or move very quickly or hastily.  Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud.
7.
Move quickly and violently.  Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear.  "He came charging into my office"
8.
Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective.  "Shoot a golf ball"
9.
Record on photographic film.  Synonyms: photograph, snap.  "She snapped a picture of the President"
10.
Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.
11.
Cause a sharp and sudden pain in.
12.
Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing.  Synonym: inject.
13.
Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors.
14.
Throw dice, as in a crap game.
15.
Spend frivolously and unwisely.  Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away.
16.
Score.  "Shoot a goal"
17.
Utter fast and forcefully.
18.
Measure the altitude of by using a sextant.
19.
Produce buds, branches, or germinate.  Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud.
20.
Give an injection to.  Synonym: inject.



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"Shot" Quotes from Famous Books



... this time Bridget, who had hitherto been a compact sturdy child, short for her age, began to grow in the most alarming manner; the "Bean-stalk," her brothers called her, and one really could almost believe she had shot up in a night, the growth was so sudden. Her arms and legs seemed to be everywhere, always sprawling about in a spider-like manner in unexpected places, so that she very often either swept things off the table or tripped somebody up. Her mother looking round on ...
— Our Frank - and other stories • Amy Walton
... came to an abrupt ending, and when Bumper shot out of it he landed in a big, circular space that gave him plenty of opportunity to turn around and look at his enemy. He had no more idea what kind of a place he was in now than before. It was all so ...
— Bumper, The White Rabbit • George Ethelbert Walsh
... Vincent shot a chicken, which one of the women cooked—a proceeding which an Indian woman can accomplish with greater celerity and success than any I have hitherto encountered. This fowl was simply delicious, and, ...
— Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule - An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, - C.A. in August, 1891 • Almira Stillwell Cole
... must be so secretly done that your adversary should know nought thereof; else would he find a remedy therefor; and the reason for which I counsel you thus is this. After your enemy's archers and your own shall have shot all their arrows, you know that, the battle lasting, it will behove your foes to gather up the arrows shot by your men and the latter in like manner to gather theirs; but the enemy will not be able to make use of your arrows, by reason of the strait notches which will not take their thick strings, ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... shot rang out, followed by another. He ran into the back-yard and came upon the equally frightened Maciek. Shouts, curses, and the clatter of horses' hoofs came from beyond the river. ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various


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