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shot - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of changeable or variegated color; iridescent.
- adjective Streaked or flecked with or as if with yarn of a different color.
- adjective Interspersed or permeated with a distinctive quality.
- adjective Worn-out; ruined.
- adjective Exhausted; thoroughly tired.
- noun The firing or discharge of a weapon, such as a gun.
- noun The distance over which something is shot; the range.
- noun An attempt to hit a target with a projectile.
- noun An attempt to reach a target with a rocket.
- noun An attempt to score into a goal, as in soccer or hockey.
- noun The flight or path of a projectile in a game.
- noun A sharply hit or driven ball or puck.
- noun A stroke in a game, as in golf or billiards.
- noun A pointed or critical remark.
- noun An attempt; a try.
- noun An opportunity.
- noun A chance at odds; something to bet on.
- noun A solid projectile designed to be discharged from a firearm or cannon.
- noun Such projectiles, especially when fired in clusters, considered as a group.
- noun Tiny lead or steel pellets, especially ones used in a shotgun cartridge.
- noun One of these pellets.
- noun Sports The heavy metal ball that is put for distance in the shot put.
- noun One who shoots in a particular way.
- noun A charge of explosives used in blasting mine shafts.
- noun A detonation of an explosive charge.
- noun A photograph taken of a particular subject.
- noun A single continuous recording made with a movie camera.
- noun A hypodermic injection.
- noun A small amount given or applied at one time.
- noun A drink, especially a jigger of liquor.
- noun An amount to be paid, as for drinks; a bill.
- noun Nautical A length of chain equal to 15 fathoms (90 feet) in the United States and 12.5 fathoms (75 feet) in Great Britain.
- transitive verb To load or weight with shot.
- idiom (like a shot) Very quickly.
- idiom (shot in the arm) Something that boosts one's spirits.
- idiom (shot in the dark) A guess.
- idiom (shot in the dark) An attempt that has little chance of succeeding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To load with shot: as, to
shot a gun. - noun A reckoning, or a person's share of a reckoning; charge; share of expenses, as of a tavern-bill.
- noun A supply or amount of drink, perhaps paid for at a fixed rate.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old English sceot, scot; see skeud- in Indo-European roots.]
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From Old English scēot, from Germanic *skot-. Cognate with German Schoß. Compare scot.
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Examples
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Keyana Bates murder 6/15/2009 Forest Park, IL * Victim was shot while in her car, another person in car was also shot*
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Keyana Bates murder 6/15/2009 Forest Park, IL * Victim was shot while in her car, another person in car was also shot*
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Keyana Bates murder 6/15/2009 Forest Park, IL * Victim was shot while in her car, another person in car was also shot*
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It come upon me like a shot -- _my shot_ was nothing to it! "
Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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The $16, 000 mistake: Robber shoots himself in foot HIS job was to guard the doors while his gang robbed a bank, but he instead gave the term 'shot himself in the foot' a whole new meaning.
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When he got his title shot against Ali, at Highbury in 1966, the result was the same, only without the frisson of excitement, and Cooper was the first to admit his moment had already come and gone in a crimson blur.
No bad words, just praise, for Henry Cooper as he loses his last fight 2011
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The winner gets a title shot at Barack "Bam Bam" Obama in 2012.
Robert Brenner: Three-Way Dance: Romney, Perry, Bachmann Robert Brenner 2011
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The winner gets a title shot at Barack "Bam Bam" Obama in 2012.
Robert Brenner: Three-Way Dance: Romney, Perry, Bachmann Robert Brenner 2011
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The title shot up Amazon's best-seller list to No. 4 last week.
An Unwitting Heroine of Science Alexandra Alter 2010
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The title shot up Amazon's best-seller list to No. 4 last week.
An Unwitting Heroine of Science Alexandra Alter 2010
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synonyms (455)
Words with the same meaning
- Nimrod
- SOL
- Telephoto
- Wirephoto
- admission
- admission fee
- aerial photograph
- all bets off
- all off
- all over
- all up
- altitude peak
- anchorage
- ante
- antelope
- antitoxin
- approach
- archer
- arrow
- artilleryman
- assay
- at an end
- at once
- attempt
- automatic control
- bag
- ball
- balled up
- bang
- bar shot
- bark
- bet
- bicolor
- bicolored
- bid
- bird shot
- black-and-white photograph
- blast
- blast-off
- blind guess
- blue darter
- blue streak
- bold conjecture
- bollixed up
- book
- boom shot
- boost
- booster
- booster dose
- booster shot
- boozy
- bowman
- bowshot
- break
- brokerage
- buckshot
- buggered
- buggered up
- bullet
- burn
- burnout
- burst
- by no means
- call the shots
- canceled
- candid photograph
- canister
- canned
- cannon
- cannon shot
- cannonball
- cannoneer
- carabineer
- carfare
- case shot
- cast
- ceiling
- cellarage
- chance
- charge
- charges
- cheesecake
- chronophotograph
- chunk
- close-up
- color photograph
- color print
- colorful
- colory
- complete
- concluded
- conjecture
- cooked
- courser
- cover charge
- crack
- crack shot
- crap
- craps
- crazy
- crossbar shot
- crushed
- daedal
- dart
- dashed
- dead
- dead shot
- deadeye
- decided
- deck
- defunct
- deleted
- demand
- demoralized
- descent
- detonation
- deuce shot
- diapositive
- dichromatic
- discharge
- disguised
- divers-colored
- dockage
- done
- done for
- done with
- dose
- draft
- dram
- drench
- drink
- drop
- dropping
- drug packet
- drunk
- duck shot
- dues
- dumdum bullet
- eagle
- effort
- ejection
- electricity
- encouragement
- end of burning
- endeavor
- ended
- entrance fee
- essay
- exaction
- exactment
- expanding bullet
- experiment
- explosion
- express train
- expunged
- extinct
- fare
- fee
- finger
- fini
- finished
- fix
- flash
- flight
- fling
- follow-focus shot
- fouled up
- full shot
- fulmination
- fusillade
- gambit
- gargle
- gazelle
- go
- good shot
- grape
- grapeshot
- greased lightning
- greyhound
- group shot
- guess
- gummed up
- gun
- gunfire
- gunman
- gunner
- gunshot
- guzzle
- handbook
- hare
- harlequin
- hashed up
- hastily
- hazard
- heliochrome
- heliograph
- hire
- hit
- hunch
- hunter
- hurriedly
- hypodermic
- hypodermic injection
- ignition
- immediately
- impact
- incentive
- inducement
- inebriated
- injection
- inoculation
- instantaneously
- instantly
- jet injection
- jet plane
- jigger
- jolt
- kaleidoscopic
- kaput
- kinescope
- langrel shot
- launch
- libation
- license fee
- lick
- lift-off
- light
- lightning
- like a flash
- like a shot
- like greased lightning
- load
- long shot
- look-in
- loused up
- mainlining
- manstopping bullet
- many-colored
- marksman
- markswoman
- matte shot
- medium shot
- medley
- mercury
- messed up
- missile
- montage
- motion picture
- motivation
- motley
- move
- mucked up
- muddled
- mug
- mug shot
- multicolor
- multicolored
- multicolorous
- musketeer
- narcotic injection
- narcotic shot
- natural
- neurasthenic
- never
- nick
- nip
- no way
- occasion
- offer
- on no account
- opening
- opportunity
- over
- overdose
- pan shot
- panoramic shot
- parlay
- parti-color
- parti-colored
- peg
- pellet
- perfected
- perhaps
- photo
- photobiography
- photochronograph
- photograph
- photomap
- photomicrograph
- photomontage
- photomural
- picture
- pilotage
- pinup
- pixilated
- plastered
- play
- polychromatic
- polychrome
- polychromic
- pop
- popping
- portage
- portion
- portrait
- potation
- potion
- potshot
- prismal
- process shot
- projectile
- prostrate
- prostrated
- provocation
- pull
- queered
- quickly
- quicksilver
- rap shot
- rapidly
- reckoning
- reduced to jelly
- retake
- rifle ball
- rifleman
- rocket
- rocket launching
- roll
- rough guess
- round
- round of drinks
- round shot
- rule the roost
- salvage
- salvo
- scared rabbit
- scot
- scot and lot
- screwed up
- set at rest
- settled
- shaken
- sharpshooter
- shell
- shoot
- shooter
- shooting
- shooting up
- shot through
- shot to pieces
- show
- shrapnel
- sip
- skin-popping
- slap
- slide
- slug
- snafued
- snap
- snapshot
- snarled up
- snifter
- sniper
- snort
- spectral
- speculation
- speedily
- split shot
- spot
- spray
- squeak
- stab
- stagger
- stake
- step
- still
- still photograph
- stimulus
- stoneshot
- storage
- streak
- streak of lightning
- stricken
- striped snake
- stroke
- strong bid
- suck
- sunk
- sup
- surmise
- swallow
- swan shot
- swiftly
- swig
- swill
- take
- targetshooter
- tattoo
- telephotograph
- tentative
- terminated
- thought
- through
- through with
- throw
- thunder and lightning
- thunderbolt
- time
- toll
- torrent
- tot
- towage
- toxophilite
- trajectory
- transparency
- trapshooter
- travel shot
- trial
- trial and error
- trichromatic
- trichromic
- tricolor
- tricolored
- trucking shot
- try
- two-tone
- under no circumstances
- undertaking
- undone
- unglued
- unmanned
- unnerved
- unstrung
- unverified supposition
- upset
- vaccination
- vaccine
- varicolored
- variegated
- velocity peak
- versicolor
- versicolored
- volley
- wager
- washed up
- wet
- whack
- wharfage
- whirl
- wild guess
- wind
- wiped out
- wound up
- zapped
- zoom shot
hypernyms (25)
Words that are more generic or abstract
same context (21)
Words that are found in similar contexts
cross-references (32)
Cross-references
- a bad shot
- a shot in the locker
- a snap shot
- aim
- barbed shot
- benching shot
- bird-shot
- blowout shot
- canister-shot
- capped shot
- chilled shot
- draw-jump shot
- drop-shot
- explosion
- fancy shot
- flowering shot
- flying shot
- gallery shot
- head-mold shot
- indian shot
- missile
- mustard-seed shot
- palliser shot
- parthian
- rescue shot
- round shot
- shooter
- shot of a cable
- to arm a shot
- to pay the shot
- to stand shot
- wrist-shot
rhymes (61)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Bhatt
- Dot
- Kott
- Lot
- Lotte
- Minot
- Montserrat
- Mott
- Ott
- Sadat
- Scot
- Scott
- Spot
- Stott
- Surat
- Swat
- Watt
- allot
- alot
- baht
- blot
- bott
- bought
- brott
- cannot
- caught
- clot
- clott
- cot
- cott
- dot
- forgot
- got
- hot
- hott
- jot
- khat
- knot
- lat
- lot
- mott
- motte
- not
- nott
- ott
- plot
- pot
- pott
- rot
- schott
- scot
- shott
- slot
- spot
- squat
- stott
- swat
- tot
- trot
- watt
- yacht
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