Shoot

/ʃuːt/ · verb

Meaning

To launch (forcefully project) a projectile..

Definitions by Sense

1. To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
2. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
3. (sports) To act or achieve.
4. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
5. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
6. To develop, move forward.
7. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
8. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

Example Sentences

The land shoots into a promontory.

There is 432 Park Avenue, a surreal square tube of white concrete that appears to shoot twice as high as anything around it, its endless Cartesian grid of windows framing worlds of solid marble bathtubs and climate-controlled wine cellars within.

There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.

two Pieces of Wood are Shot (that is Plained) or else they are Pared [...] with a Pairing-chissel

The tangled water-courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.

He tried to shoot the visual approach to runway 12, but the visibility was too low.

Once the area is ready to "shoot," the seismic crew places geophones and cables along the line of the profile to be recorded.

You can kiss a hundred boys in bars Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling

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