shoot

  • (noun): The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
  • (noun): A photography session.
  • (noun): A hunt or shooting competition.
  • (noun): An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
  • (noun): The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
  • (noun): A rush of water; a rapid.
  • (noun): A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
  • (noun): A shoat; a young pig.
  • (noun): A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
  • (noun): An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
  • (noun): The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
  • (verb): To launch a projectile.
  • (verb): To move or act quickly or suddenly.
  • (verb): To act or achieve.
  • (verb): To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
  • (verb): To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
  • (verb): To develop, move forward.
  • (verb): To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
  • (verb): To plane straight; to fit by planing.
  • (verb): To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.W
  • (verb): To shoot the moon.
  • The land shoots into a promontory.