Word Finder - shoot

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The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

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A photography session.

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A hunt or shooting competition.

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An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

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The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

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A rush of water; a rapid.

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A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

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A shoat; a young pig.

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A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.

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The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

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To launch a projectile.

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To move or act quickly or suddenly.

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To act or achieve.

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To measure the distance and direction to (a point).

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To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.

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To develop, move forward.

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To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.

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The land shoots into a promontory.

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To plane straight; to fit by planing.

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To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.W

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To shoot the moon.

Come on, don't shoot it down before you give it a try.

Did you shoot him?

Every photo shoot, this happens.

I've got a photo shoot.

Further, it has been found convenient to designate the leaf-bearing stem as a whole by the term shoot, so that the body may, as Sachs suggested, be primarily analysed into shoot and root.

You need to learn to shoot.

The four who looked ready for a modeling shoot.

Do you ever shoot any wolves?

Wallace (Natural Selection), " when the first skin was used as a covering, when the first rude spear was formed to assist in the chase, when fire was first used to cook his food, when the first seed was sown or shoot planted, a grand revolution was effected in nature, a revolution which in all the previous ages of the earth's history had had no parallel; for a being had arisen who was no longer necessarily subject to change with the changing universe, - a being who was in some degree superior to nature, inasmuch as he knew how to control and regulate her action, and could keep himself in harmony with her, not by a change in body, but by an advance of mind."

Close to the apex of a shoot the vascular bundles of a leaf make their appearance as double strands, and the leaf-traces in the upper part of a shoot have the form of distinct bundles, which in the older part of the shoot form a continuous ring.

Secretory sacs occur abundantly in the leaflamina, where they appear as short lines between the veins; they are abundant also in the cortex and pith of the shoot, in the fleshy integument of the ovule, and elsewhere.

Another departure from the normal is that in which the juvenile or seedling form of shoot persists in the adult tree; the numerous coniferous plants known as species of Retinospora are examples of this.

In Pinus the needles occur in pairs, or in clusters of 3 or 5 at the apex of a small and inconspicuous short shoot of limited growth (spur), which is enclosed at its base by a few scale-leaves, and borne on a branch of unlimited growth in the axil of a scale-leaf.

Another view is to regard the cone as an inflorescence, each carpellary scale being a bract bearing in its axil a shoot the axis of which has not been developed; the seminiferous scale is believed to represent either a single leaf or a fused pair of leaves belonging to the partially suppressed axillary shoot.

The flower may be described as a bud bearing a pair of leaves which become fused and constitute a perianth, the apex of the shoot forming an ovule.

The whole flower may be looked upon as an adventitious bud bearing two pairs of leaves; each pair becomes concrescent and forms a perianth, the apex of the shoot being converted into an orthotropous ovule.

Discovered, he attempted to shoot himself, but was only wounded, and was taken to Bordeaux, where he was guillotined when his identity was established.

A packet is placed on the pan to receive the material from the shoot of a hopper.

A rod, connected at its lower end with the steelyard, carries at its upper end a horizontal dividing knife, which cuts off the flow from the shoot when the steelyard kicks.

The coal when dropped out of the hopper runs down a shoot into a receptacle, from whence it is lifted by a Jacob's Ladder and distributed to the boilers, &c., of the factory.

The mob strung their bows, and were about to shoot down the king and his suite.

The shoot is placed in the upper mouthpiece, and the stop or door, which retains the coal in the chamber, is released; the coal is then discharged into the retort, and rushing down the incline, is arrested by the barrier, and banks up, forming a continuous backing to the coal following.

By experience with the class of coal used and the adjustment of the stops in the shoot, the charge can be run into the retort to form an even layer of any desired depth.

C, Fertile shoot showing two leaf-sheaths and the terminal strobilus.

Both the broader and narrower leaves may be more or less deeply divided, and both forms may occur on the same shoot.

The plant is reproduced by tubers, which resemble the protocorm in bearing first a number of protophylls and later the upright shoot with its single terminal strobilus.

The roots, the stele of which is monarch, may arise directly from the stem, or are borne on rhizophores, which spring from the shoot at the point of branching, and root on reaching the soil.

Disbelief surged through her, and she clenched her eyes closed, praying they thought her dead enough not to shoot her as they did the others.

Go with it, or they suck your blood in the middle of a photo shoot and then plaster embarrassing pictures of you on the internet.

Wait for the guard to come by, then shoot him in the head to conserve ammunition.

The ones further away from the keep were lower down to allow archers to shoot at the enemy.

Such bows could shoot an arrow over a hundred meters.

It has a high speed autofocus that can shoot at up to eight frames per second.

This was a good day to shoot and lots of personal bests where shot.

Why don't they shoot straight at their targets instead of using a blunderbuss?

Susceptibility of pistachio male cultivars to botrytis blossom blight and shoot blight caused by botrytis blossom blight and shoot blight caused by Botrytis cinerea.

You can keep the plants bushy thereafter by regularly pinching out the shoot tips of new growth.

A shooter may wish to shoot clay pigeon and may choose BASC to be his representative association instead of the CPSA.

Despite having clientele who travel the country to shoot here, beginner tuition is also offered.

In addition we create formats for sport and game shows, shoot commercials and produce high quality webcasts for global audiences.

If the old corm has become buried by loose soil the new shoot can extend itself up to the surface.

A new corm develops at the base of the new shoot.

In the case of the Estates ' application to shoot cormorants in 2006, the Executive considered these tests had not been met.

There are opportunities for visitors to get hands on experience as well - with chances to shoot a crossbow under supervision.

I think you can safely say the 150 lb. crossbow will shoot pretty accurately and easily to about 70 yards.

Over the hills towering cumulus started to shoot up in rows.

You could manually disable the Windows Messenger Service if you want or download the free " Shoot the Messenger " program.

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Together with a small crew they head out to the desert to shoot the film.