shoot
/ʃut/ noun C2- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A photography session.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
Plural shoots
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- shoot around To record footage in the absence of (one of the actors), ...
- shoot back Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot,...
- shoot down To cause to fall by shooting.
- shoot off To leave quickly.
- shoot out To destroy something or remove something from its usual l...
- shoot through Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot,...
- shoot up To grow taller or larger rapidly.
From the library
Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
Fernand’s mind was made up; he would shoot Dantès, and then kill himself.
Bingley,” said her mother, “I beg you will come here and shoot as many as you please on Mr.
Bennet’s means, for his coming next morning to shoot with her husband.
Other matches
- shoot To fire A2
- shoot A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or dismay C2
- shoot around To record footage in the absence of
- shoot back Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- shoot down To cause to fall by shooting.
- shoot off To leave quickly.
- shoot out To destroy something or remove something from i...
- shoot through Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
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