v To launch a projectile.
v (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
v (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
v (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
v (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
v (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
v (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
v (gambling) To throw dice.
v (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
v (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
v (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
v (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
v (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
v (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
v (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
v To move or act quickly or suddenly.
v (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
v To go over or pass quickly through.
v (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
v (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
v (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
v (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
v To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
v (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
v (sports) To act or achieve.
v (wrestling) To lunge.
v (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
v To make the stated score.
v (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
v (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
v To develop, move forward.
v To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
v To grow; to advance.
v (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
v (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
v To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
v To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
v (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
v To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
v (card games) To shoot the moon.
v (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
v To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
n The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
n A photography session.
n A hunt or shooting competition.
n (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
n The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
n A rush of water; a rapid.
n (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
n A shoat; a young pig.
n (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
n An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
n (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
n A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.