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shot meaning

EN[ʃɒt]
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WShot

Shot may refer to:
Shot (filmmaking), a part of a film between two cuts
Shot (medicine), an injection
Shot silk, a type of silk
Showt or Shoţ, the city in Iran
Line length, a fifteen fathom length of anchor chain

NounPLshots
1. The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
  1. The shot was wide off the mark.
VerbSGshotsPRshottingPT, PPshotted
1. simple past tense and past participle of shoot.
AdjectiveCOMmore shotSUPmost shot
1. COL Worn out or broken.
  1. The rear axle will have to be replaced. It's shot.
Interjection
1. COL (South Africa) Thank you.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
  - Emmanuel Adebayor's touch proved a fraction heavy as he guided Van der Vaart's exquisite long ball round John Ruddy, before the goalkeeper did well to smother Bale's shot from Modric's weighted pass.
  - Montenegro gave Wales a scare in the first minute at the Cardiff City Stadium when Stevan Jovetic broke through, only to screw his shot well wide.
2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - That area isn't my strong suit, but I can give it a shot.
  - He's aiming to be sure he hits the target on his first shot.
  - By their own account they keep pushing an increasingly corporate entertainment industry to do what scares it a little — and not just stick to a summerful of sequels and animated sure shots.

Meaning of shot for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "shot" is an adjective. It's also an interjection. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form and a transitive verb.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Adjectives
2. Interjections
3. Nouns
  - Countable nouns
  - Singularia tantum
    - Uncountable nouns
4. Verbs
  - Verb forms
    - Irregular verb forms
      - Irregular past participles
      - Irregular simple past forms
    - Participles
      - Past participles
    - Verb simple past forms
  - Transitive verbs

Difficultness: Level 1

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Definiteness: Level 9

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