1syllable
shoot
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Definitions ofshoot
1noun
- 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.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
1verb
- To launch a projectile.
- To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- To act or achieve.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To develop, move forward.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
Example: "The land shoots into a promontory."
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.W
- To shoot the moon.
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