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# shoot

«shoot» in Mova's school dictionary: **to fire a gun or arrow at something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (shoot, shoots, shot, shooting); noun (a shoot, shoots)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To shoot is to fire a gun or arrow at something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#m1)

2) In sport, to shoot is to kick or throw a ball at the goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#m2)

3) To shoot can mean to move very fast: The car shot past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#m3)

4) To shoot a film or photo is to make it with a camera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#m4)

5) (noun) A shoot is a new young part growing from a plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#m5)

6) (slang, US) «Shoot!» is a mild word said when something goes wrong, instead of a swear word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#m6)

7) (informal) «Shoot» can mean «go ahead, ask me». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#m7)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons a shoot is the first green growth from a seed; roots go down, shoots go up. In PE and football pupils learn to shoot at goal. In safety lessons guns are never toys. Phrases: shoot up (grow fast or rise quickly), shoot down, a photo shoot, shoot hoops.

### examples

- The bean seed sent up a green shoot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#x1)
- Shoot the ball into the net! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#x2)
- He shot past us on his bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#x3)
- My cousin has really shot up this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#x4)
- They shot the film in New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#x5)
- (slang) Shoot, I forgot my lunch! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#x6)
- «Can I ask you something?» «Sure, shoot.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#x7)
- Prices shot up after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#x8)
- ‘Oh, no, dear friend, don’t shoot! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/#x9)

### note

Irregular verb: shoot, shot, shot. Do not confuse «shoot» with «chute» (a slide), which sounds the same. «Shoot» as a mild exclamation is polite, not rude. «Shoot up» in maths/news means rise fast: «Sales shot up from 20 to 80».

### In the corpora

- [Films are usually filmed out of order to save time and money, for example shooting every scene in one place together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/6/)
- [The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear tied up on a hunt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/17/)
- [The bombardier beetle mixes two chemicals in its body to make a spray of about 100 degrees that it shoots from its tail end.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/11/)
- [A squid moves fast by jet propulsion: it squirts water out through a funnel called a siphon and shoots the other way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/16/)
- [Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some bamboos can grow nearly a metre in a day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shoot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.