The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shoot \Shoot\, n. [F. chute. See Chute. Confused with shoot to
   let fly.]
   An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which
   timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow
   passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the
   water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift
   current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as
   to shorten the course. [Written also chute, and shute.]
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   To take a shoot, to pass through a shoot instead of the
      main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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            The archers have . . . shot at him.   --Gen. xlix.
                                                  23.
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   2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or
      instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
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   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.
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            There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --Dryden.
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   4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing
      sensation; as, shooting pains.
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            Thy words shoot through my heart.     --Addison.
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   5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
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            These preachers make
            His head to shoot and ache.           --Herbert.
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   6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
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            Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. --Bacon.
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            But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful
            plain.                                --Dryden.
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   7. To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
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            Well shot in years he seemed.         --Spenser.
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            Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
            To teach the young idea how to shoot. --Thomson.
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   8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
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            If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot
            into crystals.                        --Bacon.
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   9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land
      shoots into a promontory.
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            There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt,
            straggling houses.                    --Dickens.
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   10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing
       vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
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   To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to
      outstrip others.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shoot \Shoot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shot; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Shooting. The old participle Shotten is obsolete. See
   Shotten.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i.,
   sce['o]tan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie?en, OHG. sciozan,
   Icel. skj?ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump.
   [root]159. Cf. Scot a contribution, Scout to reject,
   Scud, Scuttle, v. i., Shot, Sheet, Shut, Shuttle,
   Skittish, Skittles.]
   1. To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow
      or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile,
      as an object.
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            If you please
            To shoot an arrow that self way.      --Shak.
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   2. To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; --
      followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as
      an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
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            The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one
            another.                              --Boyle.
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   3. To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile;
      often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a
      word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.
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            When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's
            dove house.                           --A. Tucker.
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   4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden
      motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to
      emit.
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            An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl.
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            A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot
            corpses by scores.                    --Macaulay.
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   5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; --
      often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
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            They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps.
                                                  xxii. 7.
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            Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
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            Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or
            else pared with a paring chisel.      --Moxon.
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   7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a
      rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
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            She . . . shoots the Stygian sound.   --Dryden.
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   8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to
      color in spots or patches.
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            The tangled water courses slept,
            Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of.
      [Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him?" --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shoot \Shoot\, n.
   1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot;
      as, the shoot of a shuttle.
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            The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.
                                                  --Bacon.
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            One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
                                                  --Drayton.
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   2. A young branch or growth.
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            Superfluous branches and shoots of this second
            spring.                               --Evelyn.
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   3. A rush of water; a rapid.
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   4. (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction
      as the lode. --Knight.
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   5. (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the
      shuttle; a pick.
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   6. [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shoot
    n 1: a new branch
    2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every
       weekend during the summer"
    v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit,
         pip]
    2: kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip]
    3: fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast,
       shoot]
    4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene";
       "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take]
    5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"
    6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
       yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash,
       shoot]
    7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street";
       "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot,
       shoot down, charge, buck]
    8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific
       objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
    9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the
       accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn:
       photograph, snap, shoot]
    10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully;
        "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
    11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"
    12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject
        hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot]
    13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors;
        "shoot cloth"
    14: throw dice, as in a crap game
    15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's
        inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate,
        shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away]
    16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
    17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"
    18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"
    19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes
        sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate,
        bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout]
    20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the
        patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

485 Moby Thesaurus words for "shoot":
   Photostat, X-ray, Xerox, ache, acute pain, agonize, ail, aim at,
   altitude peak, anguish, annihilate, assassinate, automatic control,
   backfire, barf, barrage, be bright, beacon, beam, beat, bedazzle,
   behead, bine, bite, blanch, blast, blast off, blast-off, blaze,
   blench, blind, blitz, blow out, blow to pieces, blow up, boil,
   bolt, bombard, boring pain, bough, bound, bowstring, brain, branch,
   branchedness, branchiness, bring down, buck, bud, burgeon, burn,
   burn to death, burnout, burst, burst forth, bust, calotype,
   campaign, cannon, cannonade, capture on film, career, cascade,
   cashier, cast, catch a crab, ceiling, charge, charley horse, chase,
   chimney, chuck, chute, circuit, cock, commence firing,
   country rock, course, cramp, cramps, crick, crucify, cut a crab,
   cut down, cut to pieces, dart, darting pain, dash, daze, dazzle,
   deadwood, deal a deathblow, decapitate, decimate, decollate,
   defenestrate, demolish, deposit, descent, detonate, develop,
   diffuse light, dike, discharge, disgorge, disintegrate, disprove,
   ditch, dog, drift, drive, drop, eaves trough, eject, electrocute,
   end of burning, enfilade, excursion, execute, expedition, expel,
   explode, falcon, feather, feather an oar, feel pain,
   feel the pangs, fell, filiation, filling, film, fire,
   fire a volley, fire at, fire off, fire upon, flagellum, flame,
   flare, flash, flight, fling, float, flourish, flush, fly,
   follow the hounds, foot, fork, fowl, frag, frond, fulgurant pain,
   fulgurate, fulminate, fusillade, gallop, gangue, garrote, gemmate,
   germinate, ghost, girdle pain, give light, give the quietus,
   give way, glance, glare, gleam, glide, glint, glow, gnawing,
   go hunting, go off, grand tour, grimace, griping, grow, grow rank,
   guide, guillotine, gun, gun down, gun for, gutter, hand, harm,
   haste, hasten, have a misery, hawk, heave, hie, highball, hit,
   hitch, hotfoot, hound, hump, hump it, hunt, hunt down, hurl, hurry,
   hurt, hurtle, ignition, immunize, impact, incandesce, incinerate,
   inflict capital punishment, injure, inoculate, jack, jacklight,
   jaunt, jettison, journey, jugulate, jumping pain, junk, junket,
   kill, kink, knock off, lancinating pain, lapidate, lash, launch,
   lay low, leaf, leaf out, leap, leave, let fly, let off, lift-off,
   limb, load, lode, lodestuff, loose, luster, luxuriate, mainline,
   make haste, matrix, microfilm, mineral deposit, mortar, mug,
   mushroom, nip, offset, offshoot, open fire, open up on, ore bed,
   outing, overgrow, overrun, pace, package tour, paddle, pan, pang,
   paroxysm, pay dirt, pelt, penstock, pentrough, pepper,
   peregrination, photo, photograph, photomap, pick, pick off,
   pilgrimage, pinch, pistol, pleasure trip, plow the deep, plug,
   ply the oar, poleax, poop, pop at, post, pot, potshoot, potshot,
   pound, prick, prime, progress, project, propel, prowl after, pull,
   pullulate, puncture, punt, put forth, put forth leaves,
   put out buds, put to death, race, radiate, radiograph, rake,
   ramage, ramification, rapid, rapids, ray, raze, reach, reject,
   riddle, ride, ride the sea, ride to hounds, riff, riffle, riot,
   ripple, rocket launching, roentgenograph, root, round trip, row,
   row away, row dry, rubberneck tour, ruin, run, runner, rush,
   safari, sail, sally, sapling, sarment, sault, scamper, scion,
   scoot, scour, scramble, scrap, scud, scull, scurry, scuttle,
   seedling, seizure, send out rays, set, set off, shaft, sharp pain,
   shatter, shell, shikar, shine, shine brightly, ship oars, shoot at,
   shoot down, shoot out rays, shoot up, shooting, shooting pain,
   short-term, shot, shotgun, shrink, silence, skedaddle, skim,
   sky an oar, slay, slip, smart, snap, snapshoot, snapshot, snipe,
   snipe at, snuff out, spasm, spear, speed, spew, sport, spray,
   sprig, spring, spring up, sprit, sprout, sprout up, spurt, stab,
   stab to death, stabbing pain, stalk, start, stem, step on it,
   still-hunt, stitch, stock, stolon, stone, stone to death, strafe,
   strangle, streak, strike, strike dead, strike root, sucker, suffer,
   switch, take a photograph, take a potshot, take aim at, take root,
   talbotype, tear, tendril, thallus, thrill, throb, throes, throw,
   throw away, throw out, throw up, tingle, tormen, torpedo, toss,
   touch off, tour, track, trail, trajectory, trek, trigger, trip,
   trough, turn, tweak, twig, twinge, twitch, upchuck, upspear,
   upsprout, vaccinate, vaporize, vegetate, vein, velocity peak,
   voyage, walk the waters, warp, weft, whisk, whiz, wince, woof,
   wound, wrack, wreck, wrench, writhe, zap, zero in on, zip