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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



... disembarked on the west side, in a cove sheltered by a point which still keeps the name of Lord Howe. The troops were formed into two parallel columns and marched on the enemy's advanced posts, which were abandoned without a shot. The march was continued in the same order, but the guides proving ignorant, the columns came in contact, and were thrown into confusion. A detachment of the enemy which had also become bewildered in the woods, fell in ...
— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean
... on the 26th of July 1655. The Savoyards were on their way to assist at a siege of Pavia, and were determined to punish the Valsesians en route; they had come up from Romagnano to Borgosesia, when the Valsesians attacked them as they were at dinner, and shot off the finger of a general officer who was eating an egg; on this the battle became general, and the Savoyards were caught every way; for the waters of the Sesia had come down in flood during the night. The Germans ...
— Ex Voto • Samuel Butler
... of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered: Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell, Rode ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... from the grate as the flames shot up. Saunders had been a fraction of a second too late with the sheet. The oil had fallen on to it. ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various
... she rested for a moment in his arms. The seconds sped by. Then he took a quick step backwards, and they both stared at the door. It was closed now, but the slam of it a moment before had sounded like a pistol shot. ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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