Definition of: shoot

(sht) v. shot, shoot·ing v.t.
1. To hit, wound, or kill with a missile discharged from a weapon.
2. To discharge (a missile) from a bow, rifle, etc.
3. To discharge (a weapon): often with off: to shoot a cannon.
4. To take the altitude of with a sextant, etc.: to shoot the sun.
5. To send forth as if from a weapon, as questions, glances, etc.
6. To pass over or through swiftly: to shoot rapids.
7. To go over (an area) in hunting game.
8. To emit, as rays of light.
9. To photograph; film.
10. To cause to stick out or protrude; extend.
11. To put forth in growth; send forth (buds, leaves, etc.).
12. To push into or out of the fastening, as the bolt of a door.
13. To propel, discharge, or dump, as down a chute or from a container.
14. To variegate, as with streaks of color: usually in the past participle: The morning clouds were shot with silver.
15. In games: a To score (a goal, point, etc.) by kicking or otherwise forcing the ball, etc., to the objective. b To play (golf, craps, pool, etc.). c To propel (a marble) from between the thumb and forefinger; play (marbles). d To cast (the dice).
16. Slang To inject (a drug, especially a narcotic).
—v.i.
17. To discharge a missile from a bow, firearm, etc.: Don't shoot!
18. To go off; discharge.
19. To move swiftly; dart.
20. To hunt game.
21. To jut out; extend or project.
22. To put forth buds, leaves, etc.; germinate; sprout.
23. To take a photograph.
24. To start the cameras, as in motion pictures.
25. In games, to make a play by propelling the ball, puck, etc., in a certain manner.
—to shoot at (or for) Colloq. To strive for; attempt to attain or obtain.
—to shoot down To bring to earth by shooting.
—to shoot off one's mouth Slang To talk too freely or too much.
—to shoot up
1. To move or grow upward quickly.
2. To strike with several or many shots.
3. SW U.S. To ride through (a town, etc.) shooting recklessly in all directions.
—noun
1. A young branch or sucker of a plant; offshoot.
2. A narrow passage in a stream; a rapid.
3. An inclined passage down which anything may be shot; a chute.
4. The act of shooting.
5. A shooting match, hunting party, etc.
6. The thrust of an arch.
7. An antler or horn just pushing up.
8. Shooting distance; range.
9. A rapid thrusting movement. [OE scēotan]