SHOOT
What does "SHOOT" mean?
To fire a weapon or projectile, or to send something out with force or speed.
Meanings
- To fire a gun, bow, or other weapon at a target. The hunter raised the rifle but chose not to shoot.
- To move suddenly and rapidly in a particular direction. The car shot past us on the inside lane.
- To kick, throw, or strike a ball toward a goal. He shot from outside the box and scored.
- To film or photograph a scene. They shot the whole movie in just nineteen days.
- A new young growth on a plant; a sprout. Green shoots pushed up through the spring soil.
- An occasion of filming or photographing. The fashion shoot ran late into the night.
Did you know?
- A plant's 'shoot' and firing a 'shot' are the same idea: both come from an Old English root meaning to dart forth, so a sprout is literally named for springing out like a launched arrow.
Word origin
From Old English 'sceotan' meaning to dart, throw, or hurl, from Proto-Germanic '*skeutan'; the botanical 'shoot' (a young dart of growth) and the verb 'to shoot' share this single dart-like root.
Remember it
SHOOT has a double O like two barrels lined up - aim and fire, or watch the double O be the green sprout's seed leaves.
A little poem
From the burnt black field
one green shoot, stubborn, rises-
fire's quiet rebuttal.
haiku
Wordplay
- The photographer and the archer opened a studio together. They agreed they'd both shoot, just argued over what to load.
What it teaches
The same verb fires a bullet and names a sprout; force and growth often wear one word - choose which you mean.
Quick facts
What does SHOOT mean?
To fire a weapon or projectile, or to send something out with force or speed.
Is SHOOT a valid word?
Yes — SHOOT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SHOOT?
SHOOT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SHOOT come from?
From Old English 'sceotan' meaning to dart, throw, or hurl, from Proto-Germanic '*skeutan'; the botanical 'shoot' (a young dart of growth) and the verb 'to shoot' share this single dart-like root.
What can SHOOT teach us?
The same verb fires a bullet and names a sprout; force and growth often wear one word - choose which you mean.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.