the act or an instance of discharging a projectile
2. Word forms: pluralshot
a solid missile, such as an iron ball or a lead pellet, discharged from a firearm
3.
a.
small round pellets of lead collectively, as used in cartridges
b.
metal in the form of coarse powder or small pellets
4.
the distance that a discharged projectile travels or is capable of travelling
5.
a person who shoots, esp with regard to his or her ability
he is a good shot
6. informal
an attempt; effort
7. informal
a guess or conjecture
8.
any act of throwing or hitting something, as in certain sports
9.
the launching of a rocket, missile, etc, esp to a specified destination
a moon shot
10.
a.
a single photograph
I took loads of shots at the wedding
b.
a series of frames on cine film concerned with a single event
c.
a length of film taken by a single camera without breaks, used with others to build up a full motion picture or television film
11. informal
an injection, as of a vaccine or narcotic drug
12. informal
a glass of alcoholic drink, esp spirits
13. sport
a heavy metal ball used in the shot put
14.
an explosive charge used in blasting
15.
globules of metal occurring in the body of a casting that are harder than the rest of the casting
16.
a unit of chain length equal to 75 feet (Brit) or 90 feet (US)
17. call the shots
18. have a shot at
19. like a shot
20. shot in the arm
21. shot in the dark
22. that's the shot
verbWord forms: shots, shotting or shotted
23. (transitive)
to weight or load with shot
Word origin
Old English scot; related to Old Norse skot, Old High German scoz missile; see shoot
shotting in American English
(ˈʃɑtɪŋ)
noun
the act or process of making lead shot in a shot tower
Word origin
[shot1 + -ing1]-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”