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Shot
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- 1 Tired, weary.
"I have to go to bed now; I’m shot."
- 2 Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
"Tell me true, are you not glad to be fairly shot of him?"
- 3 Worn out or broken. colloquial
"The rear axle will have to be replaced. It’s shot."
- 4 Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.
"The cloak was shot through with silver threads."
- 1 varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles wordnet
- 1 An expression of gratitude, similar to thank you. New-Zealand, colloquial
- 1 The result of launching a projectile or bullet. countable, uncountable
"The shot was wide of the mark."
- 2 A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
"Drink up. It's his shot."
- 3 the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination wordnet
- 4 The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal. countable, uncountable
"They took the lead on a last-minute shot."
- 5 throwing the basketball toward the hoop wordnet
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- 6 The heavy iron ball used for the shot put. countable
"The shot flew twenty metres, and nearly landed on the judge's foot."
- 7 the act of firing a projectile wordnet
- 8 The athletics event of shot put. uncountable
"For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus."
- 9 (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand wordnet
- 10 Small metal balls, or other hard objects of various shapes, used as ammunition, especially in shotgun shells or artillery shells. uncountable
"Steel shot, unlike lead shot, avoids contaminating the land with spent lead."
- 11 the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe wordnet
- 12 Metal or stone balls (or similar), not necessarily small, used as ammunition. historical, uncountable
"The shot for this ship's deck guns, in that day, consisted only of solid iron balls such as ten-pounders."
- 13 informal words for any attempt or effort wordnet
- 14 Someone who shoots (a gun, longbow, etc.); a person reckoned as to their aim. countable, uncountable
"He'd make a bad soldier, since he's a lousy shot."
- 15 an attempt to score in a game wordnet
- 16 An opportunity or attempt. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"I'd like just one more shot at winning this game."
- 17 a blow hard enough to cause injury wordnet
- 18 A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting. countable, uncountable
"Schwarzenegger also is taking nasty shots from his own party, as GOP conservatives bash some of his appointments as Kennedyesque and traitorous to party values."
- 19 a solid missile discharged from a firearm wordnet
- 20 A punch or other physical blow. US, countable, slang, uncountable
- 21 an explosive charge used in blasting wordnet
- 22 A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle, equivalent to about 44 milliliters or 1.5 ounces. ("pony shot"= 30 milliliters; 1 fluid ounce) countable, uncountable
"I'd like a shot of whisky in my coffee."
- 23 sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put wordnet
- 24 A single serving of espresso. countable, uncountable
- 25 an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera wordnet
- 26 A reckoning, a share of a tavern bill, etc. archaic, countable, uncountable
"Yet still while I have got / Enough to pay the shot / Of Boniface, both gruff and greedy O!"
- 27 an estimate based on little or no information wordnet
- 28 A single snapshot or an unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent; an unedited sequence of frames. countable, uncountable
"We got a good shot of the hummingbirds mating."
- 29 a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film wordnet
- 30 A vaccination; an injection for the purpose of vaccination. Australia, Canada, US, countable, uncountable
"tetanus shot"
- 31 an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect wordnet
- 32 Any injection. countable, uncommon, uncountable
"[…] allowed heroin addicts to receive daily heroin shots supervised by a nurse in a clinical setting. Switzerland has since expanded this program due to evidence that crime rates and unemployment rates among participants drop during participation (266-7)."
- 33 a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) wordnet
- 34 A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is usually referred to as a grand slam). countable, informal, uncountable
"His solo shot in the seventh inning ended up winning the game."
- 35 a small drink of liquor wordnet
- 36 Written documentation of a behavior infraction. countable, uncountable
- 37 a chance to do something wordnet
- 38 A cast of one or more nets. countable, uncountable
- 39 A place or spot for setting nets. countable, uncountable
- 40 A single draft or catch of fish made. countable, uncountable
- 1 simple past and past participle of shoot form-of, participle, past
- 2 To load (a gun) with shot. transitive
"His order to me was, to see the top Chains put upon the Cables, and the Guns shotted."
- 3 To sell illegal drugs; to deal. Multicultural-London-English, transitive
"The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell."
- 4 To feed small shot to (a horse), as a fraudulent means of disguising broken-windedness. obsolete, transitive
Etymology
The past participle of shoot.
The past participle of shoot.
From Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
From Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
See scot (“a share”).
See also for "shot"
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