資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Shoot \Shoot\, v. i.
   1. To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; --
      said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target;
      he shoots better than he rides.

            The archers have . . . shot at him.   --Gen. xlix.
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   2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or
      instrument; as, the gun shoots well.

   3. To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to
      be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if
      propelled; as, a shooting star.

            There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --Dryden.

   4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing
      sensation; as, shooting pains.

            Thy words shoot through my heart.     --Addison.

   5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

            These preachers make His head to shoot and ache.
                                                  --Herbert.

   6. 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.

   7. 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.

   8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

            If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot
            into crystals.                        --Bacon.

   9. 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.

   10. (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.