The act of firing a projectile.

synonym: shooting.

Roget 722: warfare; fighting etc. v.; hostilities; war, arms, the sword; Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella [Lat.]; bloodshed.    appeal to arms, appeal to the sword; ordeal of battle; wager of battle; ultima ratio regum [Lat.], arbitrament of the sword.    battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations; mobilization; state of siege; battlefield, theater of operations etc. (arena) 728; warpath.    art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation^†; generalship; soldiership; logistics; military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery; chivalry.    gunpowder, shot.    battle, tug of war etc. (contention) 720; service, campaigning, active service, tented field; kriegspiel [G.], Kriegsspiel [G.]; fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch^†, slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password, watchword; passage d-armes [Fr.].    war to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort [Fr.], guerre a outrance [Fr.]; open war, internecine war, civil war.    ... show more

Roget 973: reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon^†, reguerdon^†; price.    [payment for damage or debt] indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo.    salvage, perquisite; vail etc. (donation) 784^†.    douceur [Fr.], bribe; hush money, smart money^†; blackmail, extortion; carcelage^†; solatium^†.    allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta^†, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi^†, dustoori^†; mileage.    crown etc. (decoration of honor) 877.    ... show more

Roget 812: price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages etc. (remuneration) 973; value etc. 812.1. dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess^†, sess^†, tallage^†, levy; abkari^†; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin^†; gabel^†, gabelle^†; gavel, octroi^†, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment^†, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage.    bill etc. (account) 811; shot.    ... show more

Dutch: schietpartij, schot
Polish: wystrzał, strzał

A solid missile discharged from a firearm:
— The shot buzzed past his ear.

synonym: pellet.

Polish: śrut

sports The act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand:
— A good shot requires good balance and tempo.
— He left me an almost impossible shot.

synonym: stroke.

Polish: uderzenie

A chance to do something:
— He wanted a shot at the champion.

synonym: crack.

A person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot):
— He is a crack shot.

synonym: shooter.

Roget 727: arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament, armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor etc. (defense) 717; armory etc. (store) 636; apparatus belli [Lat.].    ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; villainous saltpeter" [Henry IV]; dumdum bullet.    explosive; gunpowder, guncotton; mercury fulminate; picrates; pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN.    high explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite^†, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline^†.    [knives and swords: list] sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion^†, scimitar, cimeter^†, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive^†, glave^†, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga^†, baselard^†, Lochaber ax, skean dhu^†, creese^†, kris, dagger, dirk, banger^†, poniard, stiletto, stylet^†, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme^†, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife^†; ataghan^†, attaghan^†, yataghan^†; yatacban^†; assagai, assegai^†; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel.    club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy^†.    gun, piece [Fr.]; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece [Fr.], mortar, howitzer, carronade^†, culverin^†, basilisk; falconet, jingal^†, swivel, pederero^†, bouche a feu [Fr.]; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur [Fr.], mitrailleuse [Fr.]; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun^†, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom^†; ten pounder.    small arms; musket, musketry, firelock^†, fowling piece [Fr.], rifle, fusil^†, caliver^†, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon^†, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss^†, arquebus, haguebut^†; pistol, postolet^†; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot^†; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet^†, escopette^†, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut^†, shooter, shooting iron [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov.    bow, crossbow, balister^†, catapult, sling; battering ram etc. (impulse) 276; gunnery; ballistics etc. (propulsion) 284.    missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot^†, langrage shot^†, round shot, chain shot; balista^†, ballista^†, slung shot, trebucbet^†, trebucket^†; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve^†, congreve rocket^†; shrapnel, mitraille [Fr.]; levin bolt^†, levin brand^†; thunderbolt.    pike, lance, spear, spontoon^†, javelin, dart, jereed^†, jerid^†, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear^†, oxgoad^†, weet-weet, wommerah^†; cattle prod; chemical mace.    ... show more

Roget 284: propulsion, projection; propelment^†; vis a tergo [Lat.], force from behind; push, shove etc. (impulse) 276; ejaculate; ejection etc. 297; throw, fling, toss, shot, discharge, shy; launch, release.    [Science of propulsion] projectiles, ballistics, archery.    [devices to give propulsion] propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine, jet engine.    [objects propelled] missile, projectile, ball, discus, quoit, brickbat, shot; [weapons which propel] arrow, gun, ballista etc. (arms) 727^†.    [preparation for propulsion] countdown, windup.    shooter; shot; archer, toxophilite^†; bowman, rifleman, marksman; good shot, crack shot; sharpshooter etc. (combatant) 726.    ... show more

Dutch: schutter
Polish: strzelec

A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film.

synonym: scene.

The act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe:
— The nurse gave him a flu shot.

synonym: injection.

Roget 662: remedy, help, cure, redress; medicine, medicament; diagnosis, medical examination; medical treatment; surgery; preventive medicine.    [medical devices] clinical thermometer, stethoscope, X-ray machine.    anthelmintic [Med.]; antidote, antifebrile [Med.], antipoison^†, counterpoison^†, antitoxin, antispasmodic; bracer, faith cure, placebo; helminthagogue^†, lithagogue^†, pick-meup, stimulant, tonic; vermifuge, prophylactic, corrective, restorative; sedative etc. 174; palliative; febrifuge; alterant^†, alterative; specific; antiseptic, emetic, analgesic, pain-killer, antitussive [Med.], antiinflammatory [Med.], antibiotic, antiviral [Med.], antifungal [Med.], carminative; Nepenthe, Mithridate.    cure, treatment, regimen; radical cure, perfect cure, certain cure; sovereign remedy.    examination, diagnosis, diagnostics; analysis, urinalysis, biopsy, radiology.    medicine, physic, Galenicals^†, simples, drug, pharmaceutical, prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion, drip, suppository, electuary^†; linctus^†, lincture^†; medicament; pharmacon^†.    nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon^†, panacea, elixir, elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial, theriac^†, ptisan^†.    agueweed^†, arnica, benzoin, bitartrate of potash, boneset^†, calomel, catnip, cinchona, cream of tartar, Epsom salts [Chem]; feverroot^†, feverwort; friar's balsam, Indian sage; ipecac, ipecacuanha; jonquil, mercurous chloride, Peruvian bark; quinine, quinquina^†; sassafras, yarrow.    salve, ointment, cerate, oil, lenitive, lotion, cosmetic; plaster; epithem^†, embrocation^†, liniment, cataplasm^†, sinapism^†, arquebusade^†, traumatic, vulnerary, pepastic^†, poultice, collyrium^†, depilatory; emplastrum^†; eyewater^†, vesicant, vesicatory [Med.].    compress, pledget^†; bandage etc. (support) 215.    treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix^†, vis medicatrix naturae [Lat.]; medecine expectante [Fr.]; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection [Med.], phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube; prevention, preventative medicine, immunization, inoculation, vaccination, vaccine, shot, booster, gamma globulin.    pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmaceutics; pharmacopoeia, formulary; acology^†, Materia Medica [Lat.], therapeutics, posology^†; homeopathy, allopathy^†, heteropathy [Med.], osteopathy, hydropathy [Med.]; cold water cure; dietetics; surgery, chirurgery [Med.], chirurgy^†; healing art, leechcraft^†; orthopedics, orthopedy^†, orthopraxy^†; pediatrics; dentistry, midwifery, obstetrics, gynecology; tocology^†; sarcology^†.    hospital, infirmary; pesthouse^†, lazarhouse^†; lazaretto; lock hospital; maison de sante [Fr.]; ambulance.    dispensary; dispensatory^†, drug store, pharmacy, apothecary, druggist, chemist.    Hotel des Invalides; sanatorium, spa, pump room, well; hospice; Red Cross.    doctor, physician, surgeon; medical practitioner, general practitioner, specialist; medical attendant, apothecary, druggist; leech; osteopath, osteopathist^†; optometrist, ophthalmologist; internist, oncologist, gastroenterologist; epidemiologist [Med.], public health specialist; dermatologist; podiatrist; witch doctor, shaman, faith healer, quack, exorcist; Aesculapius^†, Hippocrates, Galen; accoucheur [Fr.], accoucheuse [Fr.], midwife, oculist, aurist^†; operator; nurse, registered nurse, practical nurse, monthly nurse, sister; nurse's aide, candystriper; dresser; bonesetter; pharmaceutist^†, pharmacist, druggist, chemist, pharmacopolist^†.    ... show more

Dutch: spuitje, injectie
Polish: iniekcja, zastrzyk

A small drink of liquor:
— He poured a shot of whiskey.

synonym: nip.

Polish: kieliszeczek

An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect:
— His parting shot was `drop dead'.

synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, slam.

Dutch: hatelijkheid, speldenprik, speldeprik, steek, stekeligheid
Polish: przytyk, przycinek, przymówka

An estimate based on little or no information.

synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, guesswork.

Roget 514: supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum [Lat.], theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition, position; proposal etc. (plan) 626; presumption etc. (belief) 484; divination.    conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot, shot in the dark [Coll.]; conjecturality^†; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion; estimate, approximation (nearness) 197.    inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression; bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion.    association of ideas, (analogy) 514.1; metonym [Gramm.], metonymy [Gramm.], simile (metaphor) 521.    conceit, idea, thought; original idea, invention (imagination) 515.    ... show more

Dutch: gissing, giswerk, gegist bestek, nattevingerwerk

An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera:
— My snapshots haven't been developed yet.
— He tried to get unposed shots of his friends.

synonyms: snap, snapshot.

Dutch: momentopname

Sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put.

An explosive charge used in blasting.

A blow hard enough to cause injury.

An attempt to score in a game.

Polish: strzał

Informal words for any attempt or effort:
— He gave it his best shot.

synonym: stab.

Dutch: steek

The launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination.

synonym: blastoff.

Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles:
— Chatoyant (or shot) silk.

synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent.

Roget 440: variegated etc. v.; many-colored, many-hued; divers-colored, party-colored; dichromatic, polychromatic; bicolor^†, tricolor, versicolor^†; of all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of colors; kaleidoscopic.    iridescent; opaline^†, opalescent; prismatic, nacreous, pearly, shot, gorge de pigeon, chatoyant^†; irisated^†, pavonine^†.    pied, piebald; motley; mottled, marbled; pepper and salt, paned, dappled, clouded, cymophanous^†.    mosaic, tesselated, plaid; tortoise shell etc. n.. spotted, spotty; punctated^†, powdered; speckled etc. v.; freckled, flea-bitten, studded; flecked, fleckered^†; striated, barred, veined; brinded^†, brindled; tabby; watered; grizzled; listed; embroidered etc. v.; daedal^†; naevose^†, stipiform^†; strigose^†, striolate^†.    (iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT ... show more

A new branch.

Roget 378: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance^†; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering etc. 828; dolour, ache; aching etc. v.; smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris [Lat.]; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia [Med.], earache, gout, ischiagra^†, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia^†, otalgia^†, podagra^†, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux [Fr.], toothache, tormina^†, torticollis^†.    spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes^†; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb etc. (agitation) 315; pang; colic; kink.    sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain.    anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation^†, crucifixion; martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection.    ... show more

Roget 167: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.    child, son, daughter; butcha^†; bantling, scion; acrospire^†, plumule^†, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit^†, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.    straight descent, sonship^†, line, lineage, filiation^†, primogeniture.    ... show more

Dutch: afzetsel, groei, loot, lot, poot, rank, scheut, schoot, spruit, telg, uitloper ... show more
Polish: pęd, pęd roślinny

The act of shooting at targets.

Hit with a missile from a weapon.

synonyms: hit, pip.

Roget 378: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain etc. n.; suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate^†; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.    give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate^†, excruciate^†; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog etc. (punish) 972; grate on the ear etc. (harsh sound) 410.    ... show more

Roget 361: kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.    strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.    saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate^†; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword.    shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate^†; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coupe de grace.    behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas etc. (execute) 972.    hunt, shoot etc. n.. cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of.    give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.    die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.    ... show more

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one.    strike etc. 276; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge^†, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund^†, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate^†, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.    tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate^†; masthead, keelhaul.    execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale^†, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.    torture; put on, put to the rack; picket.    banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench^†; strike off the roll, unfrock; post.    suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged.    be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged &c.; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing [Coll.], twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry [Coll.], ride the lightning [Coll.]; face the firing squad.    ... show more

Dutch: aanschieten

Kill by firing a missile.

synonym: pip.

Fire a shot.

synonym: blast.

Dutch: schieten

Make a film or photograph of something:
— Shoot a movie.

synonyms: film, take.

Dutch: vlies, film, verfilmen

Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.

Run or move very quickly or hastily.

synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud.

Roget 284: propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.    dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate^†; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork.    send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, release, send forth, let fly; put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash.    put in motion, set in motion; set agoing^†, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel etc. 276; trundle etc. (set in rotation) 312; expel etc. 297.    carry one off one's legs; put to flight.    ... show more

Dutch: afschieten, flitsen, schieten

Move quickly and violently.

synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear.

Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective.

Record on photographic film.

synonyms: photograph, snap.

Dutch: flitsen, fotograferen, kieken, trekken

Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.

Cause a sharp and sudden pain in.

Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing.

synonym: inject.

Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors.

Throw dice, as in a crap game.

Spend frivolously and unwisely.

synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away.

Dutch: verprutsen

Score.

Utter fast and forcefully.

Measure the altitude of by using a sextant.

Produce buds, branches, or germinate.

synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud.

Roget 194: become larger etc. (large) etc. 192; expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate^†, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon [Fr.], shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun.    be larger than; surpass etc. (be superior) 33.    render larger etc. (large) etc. 192; expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.    ... show more

Dutch: botten, kiemen, ontkiemen, punten, schieten, uitbotten, uitlopen, uitschieten

Give an injection to.

synonym: inject.