Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 71
Shoot (v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
These preachers make His head to shoot and ache. -- Herbert.
Shoot (v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. -- Bacon.
But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. -- Dryden.
Shoot (v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
Well shot in years he seemed. -- Spenser.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. -- Thomson.
Shoot (v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals. -- Bacon.
Shoot (v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. -- Dickens.
Shoot (v. i.) (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
To shoot ahead, To pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.
Shoot (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. -- Bacon.
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. -- Drayton.
Shoot (n.) A young branch or growth.
Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. -- Evelyn.
Shoot (n.) A rush of water; a rapid.
Shoot (n.) (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. -- Knight.
Shoot (n.) (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
Shoot (n.) [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog.
Shoot (n.) A new branch.
Shoot (n.) The act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer."
Shoot (v.) Hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip].
Shoot (v.) Kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip].
Shoot (v.) Fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast, shoot].
Shoot (v.) Make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take].
Shoot (v.) Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance."
Shoot (v.) Run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot].
Shoot (v.) Move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck].
Shoot (v.) Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball."
Shoot (v.) Record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn: photograph, snap, shoot].
Shoot (v.) Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth."
Shoot (v.) Cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg."
Shoot (v.) Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot].
Shoot (v.) Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth."
Shoot (v.) Throw dice, as in a crap game.
Shoot (v.) Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away].
Shoot (v.) Score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal."
Shoot (v.) Utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer."
Shoot (v.) Measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star."
Shoot (v.) Produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout].
Shoot (v.) Give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot].
Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
Shooter (n.) That which shoots. Specifically:
Shooter (n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter. [Colloq. U.S.]
Shooter (n.) A shooting star. [R.]
Shooter (n.) A large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles [syn: taw, shooter].
Shooter (n.) A person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter" [syn: shot, shooter].
Shooter (n.) A gambler who throws dice in the game of craps [syn: shooter, crap-shooter].
Shooter (n.) (Sports) A player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket).
Shooter (n.) A professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter].
Shooting (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.
Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
Shooting (n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
Shooting (a.) Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Shooting board (Joinery), A fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true.
Shooting box, A small house in the country for use in the shooting season. -- Prof. Wilson.
Shooting gallery, A range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms.
Shooting iron, A firearm. [Slang, U.S.]
Shooting star. (a) (Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, -- called also falling star.
Note: Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids.
Shooting star. (b) (Bot.) The American cowslip ({Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip.
Shooting stick (Print.), A tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. -- Hansard.
Shooting (n.) The act of firing a projectile; "his shooting was slow but accurate" [syn: shooting, shot].
Shooting (n.) Killing someone by gunfire; "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies."
Shooty (a.) Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly. [Prev. Eng.] -- Grose.
Shop () imp. of Shape. Shaped. -- Chaucer.
Shop (n.) A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. -- Cowper.
Shop (n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
A tailor called me in his shop. -- Shak.
Shop (n.) A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
Shop (n.) A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; also, (Slang), any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.
Shop (n.) Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. [Slang, Chiefly Eng.]
Shop (n.) the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop. [Colloq.]
Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.
To smell of the shop, To indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.
To talk shop, To make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [Colloq.]
Syn: Store; warehouse. See Store.
Shopped (imp. & p. p.) of Shop.
Shopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shop.
Shop (v. i.) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. -- Byron.
Shop (n.) A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: shop, store].
Shop (n.) Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done [syn: workshop, shop].
Shop (n.) A course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop" [syn: shop class, shop].
Shop (v.) Do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday."
Shop (v.) Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of [syn: patronize, patronise, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor] [ant: boycott].
Shop (v.) Shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" [syn: shop, browse].
Shop (v.) Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag].
Shopboard (n.) A bench or board on which work is performed; a workbench.
Shopbook (n.) (pl. - s) (Dated) A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. -- Locke.
Shopboy (n.) A boy employed in a shop.
Shopen () p. p. of Shape.
Shopfront (n.) [British] 店面 Another term for storefront (sense 1).
‘He stared at the dilapidated shopfronts.’
Shopgirl (n.) A girl employed in a shop.
Shopkeeper (n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Shoplift (v. i.) (v. t.) 冒充顧客在商店內偷竊（商品）Steal in a store.
Shoplifter (n.) 冒充顧客進行偷竊的小偷 One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.
Shoplifter (n.) A thief who steals goods that are in a store [syn: {booster}, {shoplifter}, {lifter}].
Shoplifting (n.) 商店行竊；shoplift 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.
Shoplifting (n.) The act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting" [syn: {shoplifting}, {shrinkage}].
Shoplike (a.) Suiting a shop; vulgar.
Shopmaid (n.) A shopgirl.
Shopmen (n. pl. ) of Shopman.
Shopman (n.) A shopkeeper; a retailer.
Shopman (n.) One who serves in a shop; a salesman.
Shopman (n.) One who works in a shop or a factory.
Shopper (n.) One who shops.
Shoppish (a.) Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.
Shoppy (a.) Abounding with shops.
Shoppy (a.) Of or pertaining to shops, or one's own shop or business; as, shoppy talk.
Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.
Shopwalker (n.) One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
Shopwomen (n. pl. ) of Shopwoman.
Shopwoman (n.) A woman employed in a shop.
Shopworn (a.) Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.
Shorage (n.) Duty paid for goods brought on shore.
Shore () imp. of Shear.
Shore (n.) A sewer.
Shore (n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
Shored (imp. & p. p.) of Shore.
Shoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shore.
Shore (v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
Shore (v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
Shore (v. t.) To set on shore.
Shoreless (a.) Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean.
Shoreling (n.) See Shorling.
Shorer (n.) One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
Shoreward (adv.) Toward the shore.
Shoring (n.) The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.
Shoring (n.) A system of props; props, collectively.
Shorl (a.) Alt. of Shorlaceous.
Shorlaceous (a.) See Schorl, Schorlaceous.
Shorling (n.) The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.
Shorling (n.) A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.
Shorn () p. p. of Shear.
Short (a.) Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
Short (a.) Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
Short (a.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
Short (a.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.
Short (a.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
Short (a.) Not distant in time; near at hand.
Short (a.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Short (a.) Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
Short (a.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
Short (a.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
Short (a.) Brittle.
Short (a.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
Short (a.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] [sect] 22, 30.
Short (n.) A summary account.
Short (n.) pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
Short (n.) pl. Short, inferior hemp.
Short (n.) pl. Breeches; shortclothes.
Short (n.) (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
Short (adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
Short (v. t.) To shorten. [Obs.]
Short (v. i.) To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]
Shortage (n.) 缺少，不足，匱乏 [U] [C] ；不足額（或量）[C] Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
Shortage (n.) The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" [syn: deficit, shortage, shortfall].
Shortage (n.) An acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage].
Short-breathed (a.) Having short-breath, or quick respiration.
Short-breathed (a.) Having short life.
Shortcake (n.) An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
Short circuit () A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
Short-circuited (imp. & p. p.) of Short-circuit.
Short-circuiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Short-circuit.
Short-circuit (v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
Shortclothes (n.) Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.