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发射,射击,射箭,开枪,枪杀,枪毙;投射,冲刺;拍摄,拍照芽,苗,嫩枝,竹笋
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Shoot \Shoot\, v. i.
1. To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; --
said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target;
he shoots better than he rides.
The archers have . . . shot at him. --Gen. xlix.
23.
2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or
instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
3. To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to
be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if
propelled; as, a shooting star.
There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --Dryden.
4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing
sensation; as, shooting pains.
Thy words shoot through my heart. --Addison.
5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
These preachers make His head to shoot and ache.
--Herbert.
6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. --Bacon.
But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful
plain. --Dryden.
7. To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
Well shot in years he seemed. --Spenser.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To
teach the young idea how to shoot. --Thomson.
8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot
into crystals. --Bacon.
9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land
shoots into a promontory.
There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt,
straggling houses. --Dickens.
10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing
vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
{To shoot ahead}, to pass or move quickly forward; to
outstrip others.
Shoot \Shoot\, n. [F. chute. See {Chute}. Confused with shoot to
let fly.]
An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which
timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow
passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the
water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift
current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as
to shorten the course. [Written also {chute}, and {shute}.]
[U. S.]
{To take a shoot}, to pass through a shoot instead of the
main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]
Shoot \Shoot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shot}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shooting}. The old participle {Shotten} is obsolete. See
{Shotten}.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i.,
sce['o]tan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie?en, OHG. sciozan,
Icel. skj?ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump.
[root]159. Cf. {Scot} a contribution, {Scout} to reject,
{Scud}, {Scuttle}, v. i., {Shot}, {Sheet}, {Shut}, {Shuttle},
{Skittish}, {Skittles}.]
1. To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow
or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile,
as an object.
If you please To shoot an arrow that self way.
--Shak.
2. To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; --
followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as
an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one
another. --Boyle.
3. To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile;
often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a
word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.
When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's
dove house. --A. Tucker.
4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden
motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to
emit.
An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl.
A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot
corpses by scores. --Macaulay.
5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; --
often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps.
xxii. 7.
Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
--Dryden.
6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or
else pared with a paring chisel. --Moxon.
7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a
rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. --Dryden.
8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to
color in spots or patches.
The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with
purple, and green, and yellow. --Tennyson.
{To be shot of}, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of.
[Colloq.] ``Are you not glad to be shot of him?'' --Sir W.
Scott.
Shoot \Shoot\, n.
1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot;
as, the shoot of a shuttle.
The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.
--Bacon.
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
--Drayton.
2. A young branch or growth.
Superfluous branches and shoots of this second
spring. --Evelyn.
3. A rush of water; a rapid.
4. (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction
as the lode. --Knight.
5. (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the
shuttle; a pick.
6. [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog.
资料来源 : WordNet®
shoot
v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: {hit}, {pip}]
2: kill by firing a missile [syn: {pip}]
3: fire a shot
4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene";
"shoot a movie" [syn: {film}, {take}]
5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"
6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: {dart}, {dash}, {scoot}, {scud}, {flash}]
7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street";
"He came charging into my office" [syn: {tear}, {shoot
down}, {charge}, {buck}]
8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a
specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of
the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
[syn: {photograph}, {snap}]
10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully;
"The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"
12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject
hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: {inject}]
13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors;
"shoot cloth"
14: throw dice, as in a crap game
15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's
inheritance" [syn: {fritter}, {frivol away}, {dissipate},
{fritter away}, {fool}, {fool away}]
16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"
18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"
19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes
sprouted" [syn: {spud}, {germinate}, {pullulate}, {bourgeon},
{burgeon forth}, {sprout}]
20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the
patient's vein" [syn: {inject}]
[also: {shot}]
shoot
n 1: a new branch
2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every
weekend during the summer"
[also: {shot}]