Shot

Adjective

 * 1)  Worn out.
 * The rear axle will have to be replaced. It's shot.
 * 1) (Of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.
 * 2) tired, weary
 * I have to go to bed now, I'm shot.
 * I have to go to bed now, I'm shot.

Noun

 * 1) The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
 * The shot was wide off the mark.
 * 1)  The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
 * They took the lead on a last-minute shot.
 * 1)  The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
 * 2)  Small metal balls used as ammunition.
 * 3) An opportunity or  attempt.
 * I'd like just one more shot at winning this game.
 * 1) A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
 * 2) * 2003, Carla Marinucci, "On inauguration eve, 'Aaaarnold' stands tall," San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. (retrieved 18 Apr. 2009):
 * Schwarzenegger also is taking nasty shots from his own party, as GOP conservatives bash some of his appointments as Kennedyesque and traitorous to party values.
 * 1)  A punch or other physical blow.
 * 2) A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle, equivalent to about 44 milliliters; 1.5 ounces.  ("pony shot"= 30 milliliters; 1 fluid ounce)
 * 3)   A spoon of coffee.
 * 4) A single serving of espresso.
 * 5)  A single unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent; an unedited sequence of frames.
 * 6) A vaccination or injection.

Derived terms

 * armor-piercing shot
 * big shot
 * buckshot
 * cow shot


 * long shot
 * parting shot
 * shot-glass


 * shotgun
 * shotlike
 * shot put
 * split-shot

Expressions

 * call the shots
 * give something one's best shot
 * shot in the arm

Verb
shot



Noun

 * 1) A charge to paid, a scot or shout.
 * Drink up. It's his shot.

Interjection

 * 1)  Thank you.

Adjectives for Shot
quick; succulent; tender; successive (pi); effectual; candid; chance; sprouting; calamitous; stray; deflected; pelting; native; hos¬tile; scattering (pi); desultory; wondrous; hopeful; pendulous; argumentative; dead-sure ; steady.

Verbs for Shot
fill with—; hurl—; pour—; pump—; — beats; —belches; —bombards; —cracks; — fusillades; —nicks; —rains; —reverberates; —ricochets; —spatters; —sprays; —sput¬ters; —streams; —thunders; —wails; — whistles; —whizzes.

Thesaurus
Nimrod, SOL, Telephoto, Wirephoto, admission, admission fee, aerial photograph, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, altitude peak, anchorage, ante, antelope, antitoxin, approach, archer, arrow, artilleryman, assay, at an end, at once, attempt, automatic control, bag, ball, balled up, bang, bar shot, bark, bet, bicolor, bicolored, bid, bird shot, black-and-white photograph, blast, blast-off, blind guess, blue darter, blue streak, bold conjecture, bollixed up, book, boom shot, boost, booster, booster dose, booster shot, boozy, bowman, bowshot, break, brokerage, buckshot, buggered, buggered up, bullet, burn, burnout, burst, by no means, call the shots, canceled, candid photograph, canned, cannon, cannon shot, cannonball, cannoneer, carabineer, carfare, case shot, cast, ceiling, cellarage, chance, charge, charges, cheesecake, chronophotograph, chunk, close-up, color photograph, color print, colorful, colory, complete, concluded, conjecture, cooked, courser, cover charge, crack, crack shot, crap, craps, crazy, crossbar shot, crushed, daedal, dart, dashed, dead, dead shot, deadeye, decided, deck, defunct, deleted, demand, demoralized, descent, detonation, deuce shot, diapositive, dichromatic, discharge, disguised, divers-colored, dockage, done, done for, done with, dose, draft, dram, drench, drink, drop, dropping, drug packet, drunk, duck shot, dues, dumdum bullet, eagle, effort, ejection, electricity, encouragement, end of burning, endeavor, ended, entrance fee, essay, exaction, exactment, expanding bullet, experiment, explosion, express train, expunged, extinct, fare, fee, finger, fini, finished, fix, flash, flight, fling, follow-focus shot, fouled up, full shot, fulmination, fusillade, gambit, gargle, gazelle, go, good shot, grape, grapeshot, greased lightning, greyhound, group shot, guess, gummed up, gun, gunfire, gunman, gunner, gunshot, guzzle, handbook, hare, harlequin, hashed up, hastily, hazard, heliochrome, heliograph, hire, hit, hunch, hunter, hurriedly, hypodermic, hypodermic injection, ignition, immediately, impact, incentive, inducement, inebriated, injection, inoculation, instantaneously, instantly, jet injection, jet plane, jigger, jolt, kaleidoscopic, kaput, kinescope, langrel shot, launch, libation, license fee, lick, lift-off, light, lightning, like a flash, like a shot, like greased lightning, long shot, look-in, loused up, mainlining, manstopping bullet, many-colored, marksman, markswoman, matte shot, medium shot, medley, mercury, messed up, missile, montage, motion picture, motivation, motley, move, mucked up, muddled, mug, mug shot, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, musketeer, narcotic injection, narcotic shot, natural, neurasthenic, never, nick, nip, no way, occasion, offer, on no account, opening, opportunity, over, overdose, pan shot, panoramic shot, parlay, parti-color, parti-colored, peg, pellet, perfected, perhaps, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, pilotage, pinup, pixilated, plastered, play, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, pop, popping, portage, portion, portrait, potation, potion, potshot, prismal, process shot, projectile, prostrate, prostrated, provocation, pull, queered, quickly, quicksilver, rap shot, rapidly, reduced to jelly, retake, rifle ball, rifleman, rocket, rocket launching, roll, rough guess, round, round of drinks, round shot, rule the roost, salvage, salvo, scared rabbit, scot, scot and lot, screwed up, set at rest, settled, shaken, sharpshooter, shell, shoot, shooter, shooting, shooting up, shot through, shot to pieces, show, shrapnel, sip, skin-popping, slap, slide, slug, snafued, snap, snapshot, snarled up, snifter, sniper, snort, spectral, speculation, speedily, split shot, spot, spray, squeak, stab, stagger, stake, step, still, still photograph, stimulus, stoneshot, storage, streak, streak of lightning, stricken, striped snake, stroke, strong bid, suck, sunk, sup, surmise, swallow, swiftly, swig, swill, take, targetshooter, tattoo, telephotograph, tentative, terminated, thought, through, through with, throw, thunder and lightning, thunderbolt, time, toll, torrent, tot, towage, toxophilite, trajectory, transparency, trapshooter, travel shot, trial, trial and error, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, trucking shot, try, two-tone, under no circumstances, undertaking, undone, unglued, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, unverified supposition, upset, vaccination, vaccine, varicolored, variegated, velocity peak, versicolor, versicolored, volley, wager, washed up, wet, whack, wharfage, whirl, wild guess, wind, wiped out, wound up, zapped, zoom shot

Etymology 1
From sceot:, from Germanic *skot-. Cognate with German Schoß. Compare scot.

Adjective

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 * French: fichu, naze
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 * French: crevé, naze
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Noun

 * Chinese: trad. 發射, simpl. 发射 (fāshè)
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 * Finnish:, iskemä
 * French: tir
 * German:
 * Greek: βολή (voli), πυροβολισμός (pirovolismos)


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 * Scottish Gaelic: urchair
 * Sicilian: scupittata
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 * Chinese: 射 (shè)
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 * French: tir
 * Greek: βολή (voli)


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 * Chinese: trad. 鉛球, simpl. 铅球 (qiānqiú)
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 * French: poids
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 * Chinese: trad. 散彈, simpl. 散弹 (sàndàn)
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 * French: plomb


 * Greek: σκάγια (skaya) pl
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 * Finnish:
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 * Chinese: 小杯 xiǎobēi
 * Finnish:
 * French: dose, shooter
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Noun

 * French: coup
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Anagrams

 * host
 * hots
 * Thos.
 * tosh, TOSH

Noun

 * 1) shot; measure of alcohol

Related terms

 * shotta