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shoot ~ shoot

[the same pronunciation]

“Shoot”, as a verb ~~~  shoot – shot – shot – shooting , is ‘to injure or kill somebody or some animal with a gun or arrows; to move oneself or to make somebody or something else move very quickly in a particular direction; to look at someone quickly so that other people do not notice your actions; to take photographs or make films on a particular occasion’; as an interjection, it is ‘used to express that one is slightly angry or disappointed with someone else or about something; to give permission to someone to ask questions’,

e.g.

His father taught him to shoot a rifle.

The police had orders to shoot the escaped convict on sight.  [i.e. orders to shoot to kill him as soon as they saw him, without having to arrest or ask any formal questions]

Red Indians of America shoot arrows very accurately.

After every mistake she makes, the little girl shoots a nervous glance at her teacher, afraid of being smacked.

A film company is shooting a documentary in our slum area.

“May I ask you a question, please?”   → → “Okay, shoot away!”

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“Shoot” (noun) is ‘a tree or plant that comes above the ground from its seed in its early growing stage, and/or a new part that grows on an already grown plant; an occasion when people take photographs; an occasion when people kill animals and birds for pleasure and sport and the place where they do this’,

e.g.

The farmer was happy to see the shoots coming up nicely in his field.

The school-leaving students are on a photo shoot.

Animal lovers protest the traditional bird shoot or fox hunt in England.

[‘Shoot-out’ is (a) an open shooting with guns between two persons or groups (b) usually ‘penalty shoot-out’ in football game when each team is given free kicks of the ball, with only the goal-keeper to stop it from going into the net, until one team misses hitting the ball into the goal post.]

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