Hoot vs. Shoot

A derisive cry or shout.

The cry of an owl.

A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)

A small particle

To cry out or shout in contempt.

To make the cry of an owl.

To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

To sound the horn of a vehicle

To cry out or shout in contempt.

Example: ‘Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.’;

To make the peculiar cry of an owl.

Example: ‘The clamorous owl that nightly hoots.’;

To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

Example: ‘Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat.’;

A derisive cry or shout.

The cry of an owl.

A very funny event, person, or experience; as, watching Jack try to catch that greased pig was a hoot.

a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)

a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

something of little value;

Example: ‘his promise is not worth a damn’; ‘not worth one red cent’; ‘not worth shucks’;

to utter a loud clamorous shout;

Example: ‘the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance’;

To launch a projectile.

(transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).

Example: ‘to shoot a gun’;

(transitive) To fire (a projectile).

(transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).

Example: ‘The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could.’; ‘The hunter shot the deer to harvest its meat.’;

(intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.

Example: ‘They shot at a target.’; ‘He shoots better than he rides.’;

To ejaculate.

Example: ‘After a very short time, he shot his load over the carpet.’;

To begin to speak.

Example: ‘"Can I ask you a question?"’;

(intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.

Example: ‘The gun shoots well.’;

To dismiss or do away with.

Example: ‘His idea was shot on sight.’;

To photograph.

Example: ‘He shot the couple in a variety of poses.’; ‘He shot seventeen stills.’;

To film.

Example: ‘The film was mostly shot in France.’;

To move or act quickly or suddenly.

(intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.

Example: ‘After an initial lag, the experimental group's scores shot past the control group's scores in the fourth week.’;

To go over or pass quickly through.

Example: ‘shoot the rapids’;

(transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.

(transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.

Example: ‘a shooting pain in my leg’;

To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

(obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

To send to someone.

Example: ‘I'll shoot you an email with all the details’;

(sport) To act or achieve.

(wrestling) To lunge.

(professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).

To make the stated score.

Example: ‘In my round of golf yesterday I shot a 76.’;

(surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).

To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.

To develop, move forward.

To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

To grow; to advance.

Example: ‘to shoot up rapidly’;

(nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.

To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.

Example: ‘A plant shoots out a bud.’;

To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.

Example: ‘The land shoots into a promontory.’;

(carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.W

The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

A photography session.

A hunt or shooting competition.

An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

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

A rush of water; a rapid.

(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

(weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

A shoat; a young pig.

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

A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain

Example: ‘Didn't you have a concert tonight?’; ‘Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...’;

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.

The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.

Example: ‘The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.’; ‘One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.’;

A young branch or growth.

Example: ‘Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.’;

A rush of water; a rapid.

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

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

A shoat; a young hog.

To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; - followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object.

Example: ‘If you pleaseTo shoot an arrow that self way.’;

To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; - followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; - often with off; as, to shoot a gun.

Example: ‘The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another.’;

To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; - followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.

Example: ‘When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house.’;

To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

Example: ‘An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle.’; ‘A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores.’;

To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; - often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.

Example: ‘They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.’; ‘Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.’;

To plane straight; to fit by planing.

Example: ‘Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel.’;

To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.

Example: ‘She . . . shoots the Stygian sound.’;

To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.

Example: ‘The tangled water courses slept,Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.’;

To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; - said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.

Example: ‘The archers have . . . shot at him.’;

To discharge a missile; - said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.

To be shot or propelled forcibly; - said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.

Example: ‘There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.’;

To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.

Example: ‘Thy words shoot through my heart.’;

To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

Example: ‘These preachers makeHis head to shoot and ache.’;

To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

Example: ‘Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.’; ‘But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.’;

To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.

Example: ‘Well shot in years he seemed.’; ‘Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,To teach the young idea how to shoot.’;

To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

Example: ‘If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.’;

To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.

Example: ‘There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.’;

To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.

a new branch

the act of shooting at targets;

Example: ‘they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer’;

hit with a missile from a weapon

kill by firing a missile

fire a shot

make a film or photograph of something;

Example: ‘take a scene’; ‘shoot a movie’;

send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly;

Example: ‘shoot a glance’;

run or move very quickly or hastily;

Example: ‘She dashed into the yard’;

move quickly and violently;

Example: ‘The car tore down the street’; ‘He came charging into my office’;

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

Example: ‘shoot craps’; ‘shoot a golf ball’;

record on photographic film;

Example: ‘I photographed the scene of the accident’; ‘She snapped a picture of the President’;

emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully;

Example: ‘The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth’;

cause a sharp and sudden pain in;

Example: ‘The pain shot up her leg’;

force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing;

Example: ‘inject hydrogen into the balloon’;

variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors;

Example: ‘shoot cloth’;

throw dice, as in a crap game

spend frivolously and unwisely;

Example: ‘Fritter away one's inheritance’;

score;

Example: ‘shoot a basket’; ‘shoot a goal’;

utter fast and forcefully;

Example: ‘She shot back an answer’;

measure the altitude of by using a sextant;

Example: ‘shoot a star’;

produce buds, branches, or germinate;

Example: ‘the potatoes sprouted’;

give an injection to;

Example: ‘We injected the glucose into the patient's vein’;

kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow

Example: ‘he was shot in the leg during an armed robbery’; ‘troops shot dead 29 people’;

fire a bullet from a gun or discharge an arrow from a bow

Example: ‘the troops were ordered to shoot to kill’; ‘he shot at me twice’; ‘they shot a volley of arrows into the village’;

use a firearm with a specified degree of skill

Example: ‘we shot well against Spain’;

cause (a gun) to fire

Example: ‘I learned to shoot a 9 mm pistol’;

damage or remove (something) with a bullet or missile

Example: ‘Guy, shoot their hats off’; ‘they just missed my radiator and shot away my controls’;

hunt game with a gun

Example: ‘we go to Scotland to shoot every autumn’;

shoot game over (an estate or other area of countryside)

Example: ‘at least 90 per cent of our hunting country is shot over’;

shoot game in or on (an estate, cover, etc.)

Example: ‘Tom and her brothers were out shooting Ardfeochan’;

move or cause to move suddenly and rapidly in a particular direction

Example: ‘the car shot forward’; ‘Ward's hand shot out, grabbing his arm’; ‘he would have fallen if Marc hadn't shot out a hand to stop him’;

direct (a glance, question, or remark) at someone

Example: ‘Luke shot her a quick glance’; ‘‘I can't believe what I'm hearing,’ she shot back’;

used to invite a comment or question

Example: ‘‘May I just ask you one more question?’ ‘Shoot.’’;

(of a pain) move with a sharp stabbing sensation

Example: ‘a pang of regret shot through her’; ‘Claudia felt a pain shoot through her chest’;

extend sharply in a particular direction

Example: ‘a road that seemed to just shoot upwards at a terrifying angle’;

move (a bolt) to fasten or unfasten a door

Example: ‘she shot the bolt on the bathroom door’;

(of a boat) sweep swiftly down or under (rapids, a waterfall, or a bridge)

Example: ‘those of you looking for adventure can shoot the rapids’;

(of a motor vehicle) pass (a traffic light at red)

Example: ‘drivers could lose their licences for shooting too many red lights’;

(of a ball) dart along the ground after pitching

Example: ‘a ball pitching on that spot would sometimes shoot’;

(in soccer, hockey, basketball, etc.) kick, hit, or throw the ball or puck in an attempt to score a goal

Example: ‘Williams twice shot wide’; ‘he shot the ball straight at the goalkeeper’;

make (a specified score) for a round of golf

Example: ‘in the second round he shot a 65’;

play a game of (pool or dice)

Example: ‘although we never shot dice, my friends and I played every variation of poker’;

film or photograph (a scene, film, etc.)

Example: ‘she has just been commissioned to shoot a video’;

(of a plant or seed) send out buds or shoots; germinate

Example: ‘some years one or other plant fails to shoot’;

(of a bud or shoot) appear; sprout

Example: ‘they move up into the stem where they induce buds to shoot’;

inject oneself or another person with (a narcotic drug)

Example: ‘he shot dope into his arm’;

plane (the edge of a board) accurately

Example: ‘I shot the longer edge down on the planer’;

a young branch or sucker springing from the main stock of a tree or other plant

Example: ‘he nipped off the new shoots that grew where the leaves joined the stems’;

an occasion when a group of people hunt and shoot game for sport

Example: ‘a grouse shoot’;

an area of land used for shooting game

Example: ‘we rented a rough shoot of about a thousand acres’;

a shooting match

Example: ‘activities include a weekly rifle shoot’;

an occasion when a professional photographer takes photographs or when a film or video is being made

Example: ‘a photo shoot’; ‘a fashion shoot’;

variant spelling of chute

a rapid in a stream

Example: ‘follow the portages that skirt all nine shoots of whitewater’;

used as a euphemism for ‘shit’

Example: ‘shoot, it was a great day to be alive’;

In botany, a plant shoot consists of any plant stem together with its appendages, leaves and lateral buds, flowering stems, and flower buds. The new growth from seed germination that grows upward is a shoot where leaves will develop.