shot

Definitions

General English

noun the action of shooting
noun a kick or hit to try to score a goal

Cricket

noun an act of hitting the ball, especially when the emphasis is on scoring runs rather than on the quality of the execution; a well-timed and elegantly executed hit tends to be described as a ‘stroke’ rather than a shot (see stroke)
Citation ‘If we played stupid shots, like you see nowadays because of one-day cricket, we wouldn’t have lasted long. We had to play top class strokes and bat long in the middle’ (Zaheer Abbas, Sportstar [Chennai] 28 May 1994)

Information & Library Science

noun a photograph or still frame from a film

Media Studies

noun a piece of filming, measured from the moment that the camera is turned on until the moment it is turned off

Military

noun an act of firing a weapon
noun a person who shoots
noun small metal balls fired from a shotgun

Sports

noun an attempt to score points by throwing, hitting, kicking or shooting something
noun in golf, tennis etc, an act of hitting the ball

Origin & History of “shot”

Shot goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skutaz, which was derived from the same base that produced English shoot. It used to mean ‘payment’ as well as ‘act of shooting’, a sense shared by its Old Norse relative skot, which provided English with the scot of scot-free (16^th c.) (etymologically ‘without having to pay’).

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