Meaning

12 senses
  1. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

    Ableger

    побе́гpobég

  2. A photography session.

    съёмкаsʺjómka

  3. A hunt or shooting competition.

    the act of shooting at targets

  4. (slang)An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

  5. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

  6. A rush of water; a rapid.

  7. A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

  8. A shoat; a young pig.

  9. A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

  10. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.

  11. The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

  12. A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.

Examples

776 sentences
  1. Tom wants you to shoot Mary.

    Том хоче, щоб ти застрелив Мері. — deniko

    ruТом хочет, чтобы ты выстрелил в Мэри. — sharptoothed

  2. Where did you learn to shoot?

    Де ти навчився стріляти? — deniko

    ruГде вы научились стрелять? — marafon

  3. We had to shoot our horses.

    Нам довелося застрелити наших коней. — Ahha

  4. Did Tom say anything about the shooting?

    Том щось казав про перестрілку? — deniko

    ruТом рассказал что-нибудь о перестрелке? — sharptoothed

  5. Tom saw the man shoot the driver.

    Том бачив, як цей чоловік стріляв у водія. — deniko

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant:
photography session:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English scheten, schoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West

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, thematic present of *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).

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Forms

plural: shoots
Singularshoot
Pluralshoots

regular

Word family

27 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • going to shoot
  • to shoot the
  • have to shoot
  • how to shoot
  • tried to shoot
  • shooting star
  • want to shoot
  • to shoot anybody
  • shoot anybody
  • to shoot anyone
  • shoot anyone
  • was shooting at

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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