reshootn.
/ˈriːʃuːt/, U.S. /ˈriˌʃut/ 1. A new shoot growing from the stump of a felled tree. Cf. shoot n.1 2b. Now rare.
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1882 Jrnl. Forestry 6 102 A coppiced forest..is composed principally of re-shoots from the stools of immature trees, which have been cut off close to the ground.
1888 Act 28 c. 1 in Statutes of Cape of Good Hope (1895) III. 2604 ‘Tree’ shall include not only timber trees, but trees, shrubs and bushes of all kinds, seedlings, saplings, and re-shoots of all ages.
1919 D. E. Hutchins N. Z. Forestry I. 120 Most of the other timbers growing with Kauri reshoot when young, and of some of these the reshoots of trees up to 1 ft. or more diameter are strong enough to form good trees again on the same root.
1997 Malawi: Forestry Act in Compend. Environmental Laws Afr. Countries (1998) VI. 85/1 ‘Tree’..includes palm, shrubs, bush, climber, seedling, sapling and re-shoots of all ages and of all kinds and any part thereof.
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a. An extra round in a shooting contest, esp. one used as a tiebreaker. Cf. shoot n.1 1h.
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1908 Times 28 Aug. 6/5 He tied with four other boys for the Cheylesmore Cup.., and in the ‘re-shoot’ again obtained second place.
1937 Times 30 June 18/5 The N.R.A. silver medal was won after a reshoot by Chief Petty Officer Figgit.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 13 Nov. 14/6 Mrs. J. Childs was second after a five-shot reshoot with Mrs. T. Jenkins.
2001 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Jan. a4 McWilliams..put nine of 10 in the black the first time around, and the required 10 of 10 on the reshoot.
b. An instance of shooting a film or television sequence again; a second or subsequent session of photography. Cf. retake n. 2a.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > a take or retake
retake1913
take1918
reshoot1930
1930 ‘J. Scotland’ Talkies iii. 97 Any accident which befalls the negative itself means a re-shoot of the portion of the production affected.
1973 B. Rubens Go tell Lemming xi. 158 Mr Worcester held out a possible hope of a reshoot before they left for the final shooting in Rome.
1986 Boston Business (Nexis) Mar. 14 A guy..asked for a different photographer. He came in for the reshoot about three months later, and he had gray hair.
1995 R. Barnard Great Depression & Culture of Abundance vii. 178 A military disaster means nothing more than a reshoot the next day and a larger bill from the costume company.
2004 N.Y. Mag. 3 May 15/4 Its cast and crew are headed for reshoots—or ‘additional scenes’, as the studio, Paramount, likes to call them.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
reshootv.
/ˌriːˈʃuːt/, U.S. /riˈʃut/ I. In common or established uses.
1. intransitive. To send out shoots again.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > grow again
revert?1457
rebud1598
reburgeon1611
reshoota1618
regerminate1623
revegetate1659
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > film [verb (transitive)] > again
reshoota1618
retake1915
a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 912 Though a Tree be felled; from the Root, Yet is there hope that Branches will re-shoot.
1805 T. Lindley Voy. Brasil 33 It is planted by cutting the body of the shrub into short lengths, and sticking them into the earth, when they immediately reshoot.
1833 W. J. Neale Port Admiral I. 316 They paused to contemplate a gigantic pollard of the first species, among whose reshooting boughs was placed a bower.
1949 Geogr. Jrnl. 113 37 An earlier fall of rain in November had caused some qasis, birkan and zahra to re-shoot.
1998 Garden Answers Sept. 60/2 If you cut lavenders back into old wood the plants rarely reshoot and may even die back.
2. transitive. To fire (a weapon or missile) again. Also: to shoot (hunted prey) for a second or subsequent time.
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1670 M. Mathews Relation in L. Cheves Shaftesbury Papers (2000) 170 Wee..had not a bullet till at Last we found seu'all upon ye deck which reshooting did a little help us.
1841 H. S. Foote Texas & Texans I. xiv. 294 In close fighting the bow and arrow..is a more formidable weapon than the rifle, on account of the astonishing rapidity with which they shoot and re-shoot them.
1860 Baily's Monthly Mag. Sept. 422 To re-shoot the game—re-hunt the wild boar—share once more the joyful bivouac.
1901 G. B. Grinnell Amer. Duck Shooting ii. 361 With the last duck that had fallen swimming away only wounded, half afraid to reshoot it because my ammunition was getting exhausted, yet knowing that it would surely get away if I did not reshoot it.
1993 S. Hoig Tribal Wars of Southern Plains ii. 36 The Plains Indians' short, stout bow..was a formidable weapon at close range. A warrior could shoot and reshoot it with great rapidity.
2005 D. Engh Archery Fund. xi. 122 There's an old tournament remark among archers: ‘You can't reshoot your last arrow.’
2007 K. Heiple & T. Nelson Mastering Skeet xix. 167 Just about the only time you'll be allowed to reshoot a bird you missed is in the case of interference.
3. transitive. To photograph or film again; (esp. in Film and Television) to shoot (a sequence, scene, etc.) for a second or subsequent time. Also intransitive.
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1946 D. Johnston Television Again (B.B.C.) 19 He [sc. the producer in television] has not got the facile flexibility of the movies, and the chance of shooting and reshooting his material till he gets precisely the effect that he wants.
1953 Q. Film, Radio & Television 7 229 Subsequent changes and alterations to parts of the music can be made without the need to rephotograph the whole score, simply by reshooting the particular notes affected.
1955 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy (1956) xiv. 88 It's a hundred-to-one he'll..reshoot the picture so that not a speck of what you want in it remains.
1956 Nature 21 Jan. 120/1 The information can be conveniently stored against the day when better interpretation methods allow one to make the fullest use of the recordings, without having to reshoot in areas which are often exceedingly difficult of access.
1976 A. Davis Television 28 Plays were still recorded in sequence... The maxim otherwise was to stop the tape and reshoot only for technical mishaps.
1993 Calif. Law Rev. 81 198 The photographer Sherrie Levine has ‘reshot’ famous photographs by Walker Evans, Edward Weston, and other masters in order to challenge photography's standing as a fully ‘auratic’ fine art.
2005 Sydney Morning Herald 9 July (Spectrum section) 39/1 They've already had to reshoot the ending once.
II. In specialized or more or less ad hoc uses.
4. transitive. To shoot (something) again (in various other senses).
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1831 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IX. 407 They re-shoot several times in succession the same limb, when it is cut off, and that with all its bones, muscles, vessels, &c.
1900 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 429 No doubt the action of the current upon the net is calculated more or less to shift the position of it, and so from time to time to make it necessary to gather it up and reshoot it, to restore it to its perpendicular position.
1987 D. Roberts Pipe & Excavation Contracting iv. 163 A bad blast may cause damage and leave rock that can't be excavated and must be reshot.
1998 P. J. B. Hubner Guide to Coronary Angioplasty & Stenting xxv. 259 At the end of a 5–15 minute period ‘reshoot’ the dilated vessel(s) to confirm all is well.
2006 F. C. Hobson Off Rim iv. 83 It was well after midnight but I went out to my backyard court and reshot Quigg's free throws in the moonlight.
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