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shot meaning

EN[ʃɒt]
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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. (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
  1. The rear axle will have to be replaced. It's shot.
Interjection
1. (colloquial, South Africa) Thank you.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - The golfer overhit' his shot onto the green, and it rolled into the bunker.
  - The taste of clean killed, still hunted animals far exceeds that of either gut shot deer or those run by dogs.
  - Oh... Then I've have to find somebody who's be willing to get me a less-than-full-body shot of her, like the ones I have of five other meganekko who wear pince-nez: [ …]
2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - He got the drop on them and took three of them out before they could fire a shot.
  - If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be 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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