English Dictionary

shoot

/ʃuːt/

noun

The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. / A photography session. / A hunt or shooting competition. / (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

The shoot of the plant is growing rapidly.

意味（1）

The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

Prune off yet also superfluous branches, and shoots of this second spring.

意味（2）

A photography session.

While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.

意味（3）

A hunt or shooting competition.

意味（4）

(professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

意味（5）

The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.

意味（6）

A rush of water; a rapid.

意味（7）

(weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

意味（8）

A shoat; a young pig.

意味（9）

(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

where to find a shoot of ore opposite one they may have taken away on a parallel lode

意味（10）

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.

That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timber shoot was worked by the defendant company.

意味（11）

(card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

意味（12）

A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.

Once the last line of cable has been retrieved, there is little evidence that a shoot has been conducted.