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单词 shoot
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shootverb

uk/ʃuːt/us/ʃuːt/shot, shot

shoot verb (WEAPON)

B1 [ I or T ] to fire a bullet or an arrow, or to hit, injure, or kill a person or animal by firing a bullet or arrow at him, her, or it:

If he's not armed, don't shoot.
The kids were shooting arrows at a target.
She was shot three times in the head.
He has a licence to shoot pheasants on the farmer's land.
[ + obj + adj ] A policeman was shot deadin the city centre last night.
The troops were told to shoot to kill.

More examples

  • The prisoners were put up against a wall and shot.
  • He was shot at close range.
  • Inner-city riots erupted when a local man was shot by police.
  • Three youths have been shot and killed in separate incidents this month.
  • He was shot down in enemy territory.

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Guns

  • cannon
  • cannonade
  • cannonball
  • charge
  • cock
  • crossfire
  • go off
  • gunsmith
  • kick
  • machine gun
  • ordnance
  • plug
  • point-blank
  • potshot
  • shooter
  • shooting gallery
  • shot
  • sniper
  • snub-nosed
  • Taser

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shoot verb (SPORT)

B1 [ I ] to try to score points for yourself or your team, in sports involving a ball, by kicking, hitting, or throwing the ball towards the goal:

He shot from the middle of the field and still managed to score.
shoot baskets/hoops US informal

to play basketball

More examples

  • Callas feinted to pass the ball and then shot it into the net.
  • Come on, shoot!
  • The players seem afraid to shoot when they get near the goal.
  • Again, he shoots wide of the net.
  • You just have to seize the opportunity and shoot.

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General terms used in ball sports

  • aggregate score
  • assist
  • attack
  • back pass
  • bobble
  • center circle
  • chip
  • goalless
  • holding
  • lay
  • layoff
  • long ball
  • man on! idiom
  • man-to-man defense
  • man-to-man marking
  • overarm
  • set piece
  • sidespin
  • unplayable
  • wrong-foot

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Basketball, netball & volleyball

shoot verb (MOVE QUICKLY)

C2 [ I usually + adv/prep ] to move in a particular direction very quickly and directly:

She shot past me several metres before the finishing line.
He shot out of the office a minute ago - I think he was late for a meeting.
They were just shooting off to work so we didn't stop to talk.
Sylvester Stallone shot to fame (= became famous suddenly) with the movie "Rocky".

[ T ] to move through or past something quickly:

informal He shot three sets of traffic lights (= went past them when they gave the signal to stop) before the police caught him.
It was so exhilarating shooting the rapids (= travelling through the part of a river where the water flows dangerously fast).

More examples

  • He suddenly got up and shot out of the room.
  • She shot passed me just now.
  • I'm just going to shoot off to the shops.
  • Anyway, I'd better shoot - bye!
  • Several runners had already shot past me.

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Moving quickly

  • beetle
  • belt
  • bob
  • bowl
  • bowl down/along sth
  • careen
  • career
  • gallop
  • gun
  • leg
  • make off
  • outran
  • pelt
  • rush
  • scamper
  • scoot
  • scrabble
  • scramble
  • stampede
  • trot

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shoot verb (FILM)

C1 [ I or T ] to use a camera to record a video or take a photograph:

We shot four reels of film in Egypt.
The movie was shot on location in Southern India.

More examples

  • Her last movie was shot on location in South America.
  • Most of the scenes were shot in a studio.
  • The urban scenes were shot in Manchester.
  • He's just starting shooting his new movie.
  • I shot a whole reel of film in the park.

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Cinema - general words

  • 12A
  • animation
  • animator
  • best boy
  • Bollywood
  • boom
  • CGI
  • filming
  • filmstrip
  • footage
  • freeze-frame
  • gaffer
  • pan
  • showing
  • slide projector
  • slow motion
  • sound effect
  • soundtrack
  • storyboard
  • the big screen 1

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shoot verb (PLAY)

[ T ] mainly US informal to play a game of pool or craps

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Card games

  • bridge
  • canasta
  • card sharp
  • deal
  • dealer
  • diamond
  • discard
  • flush
  • grand slam
  • jack
  • joker
  • pass
  • pool
  • royal flush
  • rummy
  • shuffle
  • singleton
  • solitaire
  • strip poker
  • suit

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Snooker, pool & billiards

shoot verb (DRUG)

[ T ] slang to take an illegal drug by injecting yourself with it:

By the time he was 16, he was shooting heroin twice a day.

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Drugs - general words

  • chase
  • chems
  • crank
  • detox
  • dope
  • doped up
  • gear
  • jacked up
  • legal high
  • OD
  • overdose
  • peddler
  • pop
  • snort
  • soft
  • spliff
  • spliff up
  • stoned
  • trip
  • whacked

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Idiom(s)

have shot your bolt
shoot sth/sb down (in flames)
shoot yourself in the foot
shoot your mouth off
shoot a glance at sb
shoot for the moon
shoot from the hip
shoot questions at sb
shoot the breeze
shoot the works
sb should be shot

Phrasal verb(s)

shoot sth down
shoot sb down
shoot for sth
shoot sth off
shoot it out
shoot through
shoot up
shoot sth up

shootnoun

uk/ʃuːt/us/ʃuːt/

shoot noun (PLANT)

[ C ] the first part of a plant to appear above the ground as it develops from a seed, or any new growth on an already existing plant:

Two weeks after we'd planted the seeds, little green shoots started to appear.
figurative The first green shoots (= hopeful signs) of economic recovery have started to appear.

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New growth in plants

  • bud
  • coccygeus
  • collateral
  • colli
  • colliculus
  • collum
  • commissure
  • communis
  • compartment
  • complement system
  • established
  • eye
  • sprout
  • sucker

shoot noun (PHOTOGRAPHS)

[ C usually singular ] an occasion when photographers take a series of photographs, usually of the same person or people in the same place:

We did a fashion shoot on the beach, with the girls modelling swimwear.
Synonym
photoshoot

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Photography

  • airbrush
  • aperture
  • camera
  • camera obscura
  • camera-shy
  • capture
  • exposure
  • high-resolution
  • hologram
  • holography
  • kinetoscope
  • lo-res
  • negative
  • say cheese idiom
  • selfie
  • sharp
  • shutter
  • slide
  • SLR camera
  • snapshot

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shoot noun (WEAPON)

[ C ] an occasion on which a group of people go to an area of the countryside to shoot animals

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Hunting & fishing

  • angler
  • angling
  • bait
  • beater
  • big game
  • gun dog
  • hare coursing
  • harpoon
  • hunt
  • hunt saboteur
  • pointer
  • reel
  • shooter
  • sinker
  • smoke
  • smoke sb/sth out
  • snare
  • spoor
  • trap
  • troll

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shootexclamation

uk/ʃuːt/us/ʃuːt/informal

used to tell someone that they should speak:

"Dad, I need to talk to you." "Shoot."

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Expressing and asking opinions

  • apothegm
  • ask
  • come out
  • couch
  • day
  • editorialize
  • far
  • for my money idiom
  • pronounce
  • propound
  • put
  • put yourself across
  • remark
  • run
  • run sth by sb
  • screed
  • soapbox
  • sound off
  • talk
  • talk sth over

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shootverb

us/ʃut/past tense and past participle shot /ʃɑt/

shoot verb (FIRE WEAPON)

[ I/T ] to fire a gun or other weapon, or to hit, injure, or kill someone or something by firing a gun or other weapon:

[ I ] We’d take our bows and arrows and shoot at targets.
[ T ] A long time ago the sergeant learned how to shoot a gun.
[ T ] An unidentified man was shot yesterday afternoon.

[ I/T ] infml If you say that someone or something should be shot, you are very annoyed by it:

[ T ] This computer should be shot.

shoot verb (SPORTS)

[ I/T ] to throw, hit, or kick a ball or other object toward a goal in order to score points:

[ T ] Both teams shoot the ball well.
[ I ] When you shoot as poorly as we did, you can’t expect to win.
shoot baskets also shoot hoops slang

If you shoot baskets or shoot hoops you play basketball.

shoot pool slang

If you shoot pool you play that game:

Patrick and I were shooting pool after work.

shoot verb (MOVE QUICKLY)

[ I always + adv/prep ] to move in a particular direction quickly and without unnecessary turns or stops:

The ambulance was shooting around the corner, its tires squealing.
Grace’s eyebrows shot up when she heard his voice.

shoot verb (FILM)

[ I/T ] to film or photograph something:

[ T ] The movie will be shot in the fall.

Idiom(s)

shoot yourself in the foot
shoot your mouth off
shoot the breeze

Phrasal verb(s)

shoot down something/someone
shoot for something
shoot off something
shoot up
shoot up something

shootnoun [ C ]

us/ʃut/

shoot noun [ C ] (PLANT)

the first part of a plant to appear above the ground as it develops from a seed, or a new growth on an already existing plant:

Little green shoots appeared in the spring.

shoot noun [ C ] (FILM)

the act of taking a series of photographs or of filming a movie:

I remember doing a shoot there.

shootexclamation

us/ʃut/infml

shoot exclamation (SPEAK)

used to tell someone else they should speak:

"Dad, I need to talk to you." "Shoot."
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