shoot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of shooting at targets

   they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer

2. 2
   verb

   measure the altitude of by using a sextant

   shoot a star

3. 3
   verb

   score

   shoot a basket

4. 4
   verb

   variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors

   shoot cloth

5. 5
   verb

   throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective

   shoot craps

6. 6
   verb

   send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly

   shoot a glance

7. 7
   verb

   To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

   to shoot a gun

8. 8
   verb

   To move or act quickly or suddenly.

   After an initial lag, the experimental group's scores shot past the control group's scores in the fourth week.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English scheten, schoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.