Shoot vs. Stem

Shootverb

To launch a projectile.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

(transitive) To fire (a projectile).

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

To ejaculate.

Shootverb

To begin to speak.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

To dismiss or do away with.

Shootverb

To photograph.

Shootverb

To film.

Shootverb

To move or act quickly or suddenly.

Shootverb

(intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.

Shootverb

To go over or pass quickly through.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

To send to someone.

Shootverb

(sport) To act or achieve.

Shootverb

(wrestling) To lunge.

Shootverb

(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).

Shootverb

To make the stated score.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.

Shootverb

To develop, move forward.

Shootverb

To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

Shootverb

To grow; to advance.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootnoun

The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

Shootnoun

A photography session.

Shootnoun

A hunt or shooting competition.

Shootnoun

An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

Shootnoun

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

Shootnoun

A rush of water; a rapid.

Shootnoun

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

Shootnoun

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

Shootnoun

A shoat; a young pig.

Shootnoun

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

Shootinterjection

A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain

Shootnoun

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.

Shootnoun

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

Shootnoun

A young branch or growth.

Shootnoun

A rush of water; a rapid.

Shootnoun

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

Shootnoun

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

Shootnoun

A shoat; a young hog.

Shootverb

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.

Shootverb

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.

Shootverb

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.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

To plane straight; to fit by planing.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootnoun

a new branch

Shootnoun

the act of shooting at targets;

Shootverb

hit with a missile from a weapon

Shootverb

kill by firing a missile

Shootverb

fire a shot

Shootverb

make a film or photograph of something;

Shootverb

send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly;

Shootverb

run or move very quickly or hastily;

Shootverb

move quickly and violently;

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

record on photographic film;

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

cause a sharp and sudden pain in;

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors;

Shootverb

throw dice, as in a crap game

Shootverb

spend frivolously and unwisely;

Shootverb

score;

Shootverb

utter fast and forcefully;

Shootverb

measure the altitude of by using a sextant;

Shootverb

produce buds, branches, or germinate;

Shootverb

give an injection to;

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

use a firearm with a specified degree of skill

Shootverb

cause (a gun) to fire

Shootverb

damage or remove (something) with a bullet or missile

Shootverb

hunt game with a gun

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

used to invite a comment or question

Shootverb

(of a pain) move with a sharp stabbing sensation

Shootverb

extend sharply in a particular direction

Shootverb

move (a bolt) to fasten or unfasten a door

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

(of a ball) dart along the ground after pitching

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

make (a specified score) for a round of golf

Shootverb

play a game of (pool or dice)

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

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

Shootverb

(of a bud or shoot) appear; sprout

Shootverb

inject oneself or another person with (a narcotic drug)

Shootverb

plane (the edge of a board) accurately

Shootnoun

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

Shootnoun

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

Shootnoun

an area of land used for shooting game

Shootnoun

a shooting match

Shootnoun

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

Shootnoun

variant spelling of chute

Shootnoun

a rapid in a stream

Shootinterjection

used as a euphemism for ‘shit’

Shoot

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.

Stemnoun

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Stemnoun

A branch of a family.

Stemnoun

An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Stemnoun

(botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.

Stemnoun

A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.

Stemnoun

A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.

Stemnoun

(linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.

Stemnoun

(slang) A person's leg.

Stemnoun

(slang) The penis.

Stemnoun

(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.

Stemnoun

(music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.

Stemnoun

(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.

Stemnoun

Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork

Stemnoun

(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.

Stemnoun

(slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.

Stemnoun

(chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism

Stemnoun

alternative form of STEM

Stemverb

To remove the stem from.

Stemverb

To be caused or derived; to originate.

Stemverb

To descend in a family line.

Stemverb

To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.

Stemverb

(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.

Stemverb

To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

Stemverb

(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).

Stemverb

(skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.

Stemverb

To gleam.

Stemverb

To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.

Stemverb

To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

Stemverb

To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.

Stemverb

To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.

Stemnoun

A gleam of light; flame.

Stemnoun

The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.

Stemnoun

A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

Stemnoun

The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Stemnoun

A branch of a family.

Stemnoun

A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.

Stemnoun

Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Stemnoun

Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.

Stemnoun

That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.

Stemnoun

The entire central axis of a feather.

Stemnoun

The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.

Stemnoun

The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.

Stemnoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;

Stemnoun

a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

Stemnoun

cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

Stemnoun

the tube of a tobacco pipe

Stemnoun

front part of a vessel or aircraft;

Stemnoun

a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

Stemverb

grow out of, have roots in, originate in;

Stemverb

cause to point inward;

Stemverb

stop the flow of a liquid;

Stemverb

remove the stem from;