shoot

English

/ʃuːt/

verb
Definitions
  • To launch a projectile.
  • To move or act quickly or suddenly.
  • (sport) To act or achieve.
  • (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
  • (transitive) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
  • To develop, move forward.
  • To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
  • (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
  • To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
  • (card games) To shoot the moon.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English shoten inherited from Old English scēotan inherited from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną (shoot) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*(s)kéwd-e-ti

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