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shoot(2) (iou) and bioseries (medicine)


shoot(2) (iou)



shoot noun1. LME.
[from SHOOT verb. Cf. earlier SHOTE. Cf. also SHUTE noun1, noun2.]
a. Weapons for shooting, esp. firearms, collectively. rare. Only in LME.
b. An act of shooting; a discharge of arrows, bullets, etc. arch. M16.
R. L. Stevenson Many a rogue would give his..ears to have a shoot at..us!
c. Range, distance, or reach of a shot; shooting distance. M16-E18.
d. A game-shooting expedition, esp. in a specified area; a shooting party; the result of a shooting expedition. Also, the right to shoot game in a specified area; a specified area in which game may be shot. M19.
W. W. Hunter Their return..was celebrated by a..shoot in the jungle. Country Life Most shoots have finished their season with a..fair partridge stock.
e. A shooting match or contest; a round of shots in such a contest. L19.
Target Gun A Springfield rocket bayonet for the H.B.S.A. fixed bayonet shoot.
f. The action of shooting a Film. E20.
Broadcast Had you crewed in..Television productions and..found yourself part of a commercial shoot? Direction The ad..is the product of a two-day live action shoot.
g. Military. An act of bombardment; esp. an Exercise in which anti-aircraft drill is practised. M20.
a. A young branch or sucker springing from the main stock of a tree, plant, etc. LME.
Garden News Side shoots root better than main..shoots.
b. Orig., the rising of sap in a plant etc. Later, (the amount of) new growth produced by a plant over a specified period; the action or process of sprouting or growing. L16.
Boston Herald The shoot of Spring grass is..unusually late.
c. fig. An offshoot, a scion. E17.
Longfellow Monsieur d'Argentville was a shoot from a wealthy family.
a. A movement of an object (as if) shooting or being shot in a particular direction; the space or distance covered by such movement or by propulsion. L16.
Times Both [yachts] had a long shoot up in the eye of the wind.
b. fig. A surge; a sudden advance. Now rare. M18.
S. Johnson His sudden shoot of Success.
c. A sharp short twinge of pain. M18.
J. Hutchinson Shoots of pain..like those of an electric discharge.
d. A breaking and falling away or down of ice, soil, etc.; a landslip. E19.
a. A heavy and sudden rush of water down a steep channel; a place in a river where this occurs, a rapid. E17.
Sir W. Scott A single shoot carried a considerable stream over the..rock.
b. A channel built to convey water by gravity, esp. to drive a water-wheel. Also, any man-made channel. E18.
Weaving. A single movement or throw of the shuttle between the threads of the warp; the length of thread thus placed. Also, the weft. E18.
A crossbar connecting the beam and sole in front in a former kind of plough; = SHEATH noun2. dial. M18.
A sloping channel or conduit down which coal, ore, wheat, etc., may be conveyed to a lower level. Also, a slope for shooting rubbish down, a tip. M19.
b. A narrow passageway between enclosures for cattle or sheep. Chiefly US & Austral. L19.
Mining. A large somewhat regular body or mass of ore in a vein, usually elongated and vertical or inclined in position. M19.
Phrases: LAMMAS shoot. leading shoot: see LEADING adjective. rough shoot: see ROUGH adjective. the whole shoot colloq. the whole lot, everything. tiller shoot: see TILLER noun3 2.

bioseries (medicine)


bioseries
<genetics> A series of recognisable evolutionary changes in a single inheritable characteristic.