shoot

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To fire a gun or other weapon, or to hit someone or something with a bullet.

   The hunter raised his rifle and shot at the deer.

2. 2
   verb

   To move or do something very quickly and suddenly.

   The car shot past us at high speed.

3. 3
   verb

   To kick, throw, or hit a ball toward the goal in order to score.

   He shot the ball straight into the top corner of the net.

4. 4
   noun

   An organized event of shooting at targets or animals.

   They hold a shoot every weekend during the summer.

Common collocations

• photo shoot Adjective + noun
• film shoot Adjective + noun

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.

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