ENGLISH: shoot - CREOLE: tire
Overview of noun shoot
The noun shoot has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. shoot -- (a new branch)
2. shoot -- (the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer")
Overview of verb shoot
The verb shoot has 20 senses (first 9 from tagged texts)
1. (28) shoot, hit, pip -- (hit with a missile from a weapon)
2. (27) shoot, pip -- (kill by firing a missile)
3. (26) shoot -- (fire a shot)
4. (7) film, shoot, take -- (make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie")
5. (3) shoot -- (send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance")
6. (3) dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot -- (run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard")
7. (1) tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck -- (move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office")
8. (1) shoot -- (throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball")
9. (1) photograph, snap, shoot -- (record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President")
10. shoot -- (emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth")
11. shoot -- (cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg")
12. inject, shoot -- (force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon")
13. shoot -- (variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth")
14. shoot -- (throw dice, as in a crap game)
15. fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away -- (spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance")
16. shoot -- (score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal")
17. shoot -- (utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer")
18. shoot -- (measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star")
19. shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout -- (produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted")
20. inject, shoot -- (give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein")
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