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
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Shooto English
- air English
- airshoot English
- around English
- atshoot English
- back English
- backshoot English
- backshooter English
- crap English
- crapshoot English
- crapshooter English
- fighter English
- fighting English
- foreshoot English
- gut English
- gut-shoot English
- house English
- in English
- inshoot English
- long English
- longshoot English
- mass shooting English
- microshoot English
- nonshooting English
- offshoot English
- ore English
- oreshoot English
- outshoot English
- overshoot English
- peashooter English
- photo English
- photoshoot English
- reshoot English
- scoot English
- sharpshooting English
- shootable English
- shootaround English
- shootee English
- shooter English
- shootest English
- shooteth English
- shootfighter English
- shootfighting English
- shoothouse English
- shooting English
- shooting-jacket English
- shootist English
- shootless English
- shootlessness English
- shootlet English
- shootlike English
- shootling English
- shootress English
- shootward English
- shooty English
- sixshooter English
- sling English
- slingshoot English
- slop English
- slop shoot English
- snapshooter English
- trapshooter English
- trapshooting English
- trouble English
- troubleshoot English
- troubleshooter English
- undershoot English
- unshoot English
- unshootable English
- upshoot English
- water English
- watershoot English
- wingshooting English
- kytätä Finnish
- Bogenschießen German
- Schießbefehl German
- Schießerei German
- Schießgewehr German
- Schießpulver German
- abschießen German
- anschießen German
- beschießen German
- danebenschießen German
- erschießen German
- losschießen German
- niederschießen German
- schießen German
- schießwütig German
- totschießen German
- verschießen German
- wegschießen German
- zuschießen German
- aanschieten Dutch, Flemish
- afschieten Dutch, Flemish
- beschieten Dutch, Flemish
- bijschieten Dutch, Flemish
- boogschieten Dutch, Flemish
- doorschieten Dutch, Flemish
- klimaatschieten Dutch, Flemish
- neerschieten Dutch, Flemish
- ontschieten Dutch, Flemish
- opschieten Dutch, Flemish
- prijsschieten Dutch, Flemish
- schietbaan Dutch, Flemish
- schietbout Dutch, Flemish
- schieten Dutch, Flemish
- schietgat Dutch, Flemish
- schietgebed Dutch, Flemish
- schietgeweer Dutch, Flemish
- schietgraag Dutch, Flemish
- schietijzer Dutch, Flemish
- schietkraam Dutch, Flemish
- schietlood Dutch, Flemish
- schietpartij Dutch, Flemish
- schietschijf Dutch, Flemish
- schietvoorraad Dutch, Flemish
- schietwilg Dutch, Flemish
- uitschieten Dutch, Flemish
- verschieten Dutch, Flemish
- volschieten Dutch, Flemish
- voorschieten Dutch, Flemish
- закидать Russian
- кида́ть Russian
- кидаться Russian
- раскидать Russian
- chut Spanish, Castilian
- chutar Spanish, Castilian
- Σκύθης Ancient Greek
- *(s)kewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kéwd-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- skyte Norwegian Bokmål
- skytefelt Norwegian Bokmål
- skytevåpen Norwegian Bokmål
- skyting Norwegian Bokmål
- chutar Portuguese
- chuteira Portuguese
- chuto Portuguese
- *skeutaną Proto-Germanic
- förskjuta Swedish
- skjuta Swedish
- skjutfält Swedish
- skjutmått Swedish
- オーバーシュート Japanese
- 修斗 Japanese
- skyta Norwegian Nynorsk
- sceotan Old English
- scēotan Old English
- चोदति Sanskrit
- atschoten Middle English
- schoter Middle English
- shoten Middle English
- shoting Middle English
- skjóta Old Norse
- skyde Danish
- skydevåben Danish
- xut Catalan, Valencian
- skjóta Icelandic
- शूटिंग Hindi
- maniniyot Cebuano
- siyot Cebuano
- sekip Indonesian
- schieten Middle Dutch
- sciozzan Old High German
- սկիւթ Old Armenian
- şut Turkish
- skiet Afrikaans
- skjóta Faroese
- schéissen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ရှူတင် Burmese
- hedh Albanian
- *skeutan gmw-pro
- skietan Old Dutch
- skiotan Old Dutch
- schêten Middle Low German
- *čáwdati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- skiotan Old Saxon
- schieße Alemannic German
- skiuta Old Swedish
- *ćáwdati Proto-Indo-Aryan
- sjitte Western Frisian
- skiata Old Frisian
- dootscheten Low German
- scheten Low German
- *skeuda Proto-Albanian
- schieße Central Franconian
- شات Hijazi Arabic
- skiutæ Old Danish
- *𑀘𑁄𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀢𑀺 Ashokan Prakrit
- شات Gulf Arabic
- shotta Jamaican Creole
- schieten Crimean Gothic
- shuda Kriol
- *Skuδat xsc-pro
- in
- ore
- air
- gut
- slop
- crap
- long
- back
- scoot
- water
- photo
- house
- sling
- around
- shooty
- Shooto
- inshoot
- atshoot
- shooter
- unshoot
- shootee
- reshoot
- fighter
- upshoot
- trouble
- outshoot
- shooting
- airshoot
- shootist
- oreshoot
- shootest
- shooteth
- offshoot
- fighting
- shootlet
- overshoot
- shootlike
- foreshoot
- shootling
- crapshoot
- shootable
- shootress
- backshoot
- shootless
- shootward
- gut-shoot
- longshoot
- undershoot
- sixshooter
- peashooter
- photoshoot
- slop shoot
- microshoot
- slingshoot
- watershoot
- shoothouse
- backshooter
- nonshooting
- snapshooter
- crapshooter
- unshootable
- shootaround
- trapshooter
- trapshooting
- troubleshoot
- shootfighter
- wingshooting
- shootlessness
- mass shooting
- sharpshooting
- shootfighting
- troubleshooter
- shooting-jacket