shoot

Meanings

• a new branch
• the act of shooting at targets
  • "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"
• hit with a missile from a weapon
• kill by firing a missile
• fire a shot
• make a film or photograph of something
  • "shoot a movie"
• send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
  • "shoot a glance"
• run or move very quickly or hastily
• move quickly and violently
• throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
  • "shoot craps"
  • "shoot a golf ball"
• record on photographic film
• emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
• cause a sharp and sudden pain in
• force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
• variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
  • "shoot cloth"
• throw dice, as in a crap game
• spend frivolously and unwisely
• score
  • "shoot a basket"
  • "shoot a goal"
• utter fast and forcefully
• measure the altitude of by using a sextant
  • "shoot a star"
• produce buds, branches, or germinate
• give an injection to

Synonyms

blast, bourgeon, buck, burgeon forth, charge, dart, dash, dissipate, film, flash, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, germinate, hit, inject, photograph, pip, pullulate, scoot, scud, shoot down, snap, sprout, spud, take, tear