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 →

2) In sport, to shoot is to kick or throw a ball at the goal. tree →

3) To shoot can mean to move very fast: The car shot past. tree →

4) To shoot a film or photo is to make it with a camera. tree →

5) (noun) A shoot is a new young part growing from a plant. tree →

6) (slang, US) «Shoot!» is a mild word said when something goes wrong, instead of a swear word. tree →

7) (informal) «Shoot» can mean «go ahead, ask me». tree →

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 →
• Shoot the ball into the net! tree →
• He shot past us on his bike. tree →
• My cousin has really shot up this year. tree →
• They shot the film in New Zealand. tree →
• (slang) Shoot, I forgot my lunch! tree →
• «Can I ask you something?» «Sure, shoot.» tree →
• Prices shot up after the storm. tree →
• ‘Oh, no, dear friend, don’t shoot! tree →

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.
• The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear tied up on a hunt.
• The bombardier beetle mixes two chemicals in its body to make a spray of about 100 degrees that it shoots from its tail end.
• A squid moves fast by jet propulsion: it squirts water out through a funnel called a siphon and shoots the other way.
• Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some bamboos can grow nearly a metre in a day.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shoot» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.