What is the meaning of shot?

noun

• The act of firing a projectile.
  • usage: "his shooting was slow but accurate"
  • synonyms: shooting
• A solid missile discharged from a firearm.
  • usage: "the shot buzzed past his ear"
  • synonyms: pellet
• Sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand. (
  • usage: "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot requires good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot"
  • synonyms: stroke
• A chance to do something.
  • usage: "he wanted a shot at the champion"
  • synonyms: crack
• A person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot. )
  • usage: "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter"
  • synonyms: shooter
• A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film.
  • synonyms: scene
• The act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe.
  • usage: "the nurse gave him a flu shot"
  • synonyms: injection
• A small drink of liquor.
  • usage: "he poured a shot of whiskey"
  • synonyms: nip
• An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
  • usage: "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
  • synonyms: shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe
• An estimate based on little or no information.
  • synonyms: guess, guesswork, guessing, dead reckoning
• An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera.
  • usage: "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends"
  • synonyms: snapshot, snap
• Sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put.
  • usage: "he trained at putting the shot"
• An explosive charge used in blasting.
• A blow hard enough to cause injury.
  • usage: "he is still recovering from a shot to his leg"; "I caught him with a solid shot to the chin"
• An attempt to score in a game.
• Informal words for any attempt or effort.
  • usage: "he gave it his best shot"; "he took a stab at forecasting"
  • synonyms: stab
• The launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination.
  • synonyms: blastoff

verb

• Hit with a missile from a weapon.
  • synonyms: shoot, hit, pip
• Kill by firing a missile.
  • synonyms: shoot, pip
• Fire a shot.
  • usage: "the gunman blasted away"
  • synonyms: blast, shoot
• Make a film or photograph of something.
  • usage: "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
  • synonyms: film, shoot, take
• Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.
  • usage: "shoot a glance"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Run or move very quickly or hastily.
  • usage: "She dashed into the yard"
  • synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot
• Move quickly and violently.
  • usage: "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
  • synonyms: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck
• Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective.
  • usage: "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Record on photographic film.
  • usage: "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
  • synonyms: photograph, snap, shoot
• Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.
  • usage: "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Cause a sharp and sudden pain in.
  • usage: "The pain shot up her leg"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing.
  • usage: "inject hydrogen into the balloon"
  • synonyms: inject, shoot
• Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors.
  • usage: "shoot cloth"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Throw dice, as in a crap game.
  • synonyms: shoot
• Spend frivolously and unwisely.
  • usage: "Fritter away one's inheritance"
  • synonyms: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away
• Score.
  • usage: "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Utter fast and forcefully.
  • usage: "She shot back an answer"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Measure the altitude of by using a sextant.
  • usage: "shoot a star"
  • synonyms: shoot
• Produce buds, branches, or germinate.
  • usage: "the potatoes sprouted"
  • synonyms: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout
• Give an injection to.
  • usage: "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"
  • synonyms: inject, shoot

adjective

• Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles.
  • usage: "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"
  • synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent