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Shoot is a related term of drive.


As verbs the difference between shoot and drive

is that shoot is to launch a projectile while drive is .

As a noun shoot

is the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

As an interjection shoot

is .

shoot

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) shoten, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • To launch a projectile.
  • # (label) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
  • # (label) To fire (a projectile).
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way.
  • # (label) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
  • # (label) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
  • # (label) To ejaculate.
  • # To begin to speak.
  • # (label) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
  • # To dismiss or do away with.
  • # To photograph.
  • To move or act quickly or suddenly.
  • # (label) To move very quickly and suddenly.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
  • #* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
  • It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges
  • # To go over or pass quickly through.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • Sheshoots the Stygian sound.
  • # (label) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
  • # (label) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
  • #* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • Thy words shoot through my heart.
  • # To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
  • #* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
  • These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.
  • # (label) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
  • #* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
  • # To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
  • #* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
  • an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
  • #* (1800-1859)
  • a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores
  • # To send to someone.
  • (label) To act or achieve.
  • # (label) To lunge.
  • # (label) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
  • # To make the stated score.
  • (label) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
  • To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
  • To develop, move forward.
  • # To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
  • #* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • But the wild olive shoots , and shades the ungrateful plain.
  • # To grow; to advance.
  • #* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • Well shot in years he seemed.
  • #* (1700-1748)
  • Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot .
  • # (label) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
  • # To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out .
  • #* Bible, (Psalms) xxii. 7
  • They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
  • To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
  • * (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
  • There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
  • (label) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
  • * (Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)
  • two pieces of wood that are shot , that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel
  • To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.(w)
  • * (1809-1892)
  • The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
    Derived terms
    * like shooting fish in a barrel * re-shoot * shoot down * shooter * shoot from the hip * shoot from the lip * shoot one's bolt * shoot oneself in the foot * shoot one's mouth off * shoot one's wad * shoot the boots * shoot the bull * shoot the messenger * shoot up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
  • * Evelyn
  • Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.
  • A photography session.
  • A hunt or shooting competition.
  • (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
  • The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot .
  • * Drayton
  • One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
  • A rush of water; a rapid.
  • (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
  • (Knight)
  • (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
  • A shoat; a young pig.
  • An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
  • (Webster 1913)
    Derived terms
    * (hunt or shooting competition) turkey shoot

    Etymology 2

    minced oath for (shit)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Didn't you have a concert tonight?
    Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...
    Synonyms
    * (mild expletive) darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks

    drive

    English

    Verb

  • To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
  • to drive sheep out of a field
  • * Jowett (Thucyd.)
  • A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.
  • (intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • To cause animals to flee out of.
  • To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
  • To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
  • (ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
  • To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
  • To compel (to do something).
  • To cause to become.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • (cricket) To hit the ball with a .
  • To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • To move forcefully.
  • * Dryden
  • Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
  • * Prescott
  • under cover of the night and a driving tempest
  • * Tennyson
  • Time driveth onward fast, / And in a little while our lips are dumb.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
  • , title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny. }}
  • To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
  • * Tennyson
  • enough to drive one mad
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.
  • To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  • * Collier
  • The trade of life can not be driven without partners.
    (Francis Bacon)
  • To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  • * Dryden
  • to drive the country, force the swains away
  • (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  • (Tomlinson)
  • (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
  • Synonyms

    * herd * (cause animals to flee out of) * (move something by hitting it with great force) force, push * move, operate * * impel, incentivise/incentivize, motivate, push, urge * (compel) compel, force, oblige, push, require * (cause to become) make, send * (travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle) * take

    Derived terms

    * bedrive * drink and drive * driveable * drive a coach and horses through * drive a hard bargain * drive at * drive-boat * drive-bolt * drive-by * drivee * drive home * drive-in * drive Irish tandem * drive-line * drive off * drive-off * drive-on * * drive out * drive-pipe * driver * drive-screw * drive-shaft * drive-through, drivethrough * drive time * drive to distraction * drive to drink * drive-train * drive-wheel * drive-yourself * driving * fordrive * let drive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.
  • Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  • * (Matthew Arnold)
  • The Murdstonian drive in business.
  • An act of driving animals forward, to be captured, hunted etc.
  • * 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 79:
  • Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.
  • (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
  • A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
  • A trip made in a motor vehicle.
  • A driveway.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive , for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
  • A type of public roadway.
  • (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  • (psychology) Desire or interest.
  • (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
  • (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
  • (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
  • (baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
  • (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
  • (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
  • , title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=And after Rodallega missed two early opportunities, the first a header, the second a low drive easily held by Lukasz Fabianski, it was N'Zogbia who created the opening goal. }}
  • A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive
  • (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
  • A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
  • Usage notes

    * In connection with a mass-storage device, originally the word "drive" referred solely to the reading and writing mechanism. For the storage device itself, the word "disk" was used instead. This remains a valid distinction for components such as floppy drives or CD drives, in which the drive and the disk are separate and independent items. For other devices, such as hard disks and flash drives, the reading, writing and storage components are combined into an integrated whole, and can not be separated without destroying the device. In these cases, the words "disk" and "drive" are used interchangeably.

    Synonyms

    * (self-motivation) ambition, enthusiasm, get-up-and-go, motivation, self-motivation, verve * (sustained advance in the face of the enemy) attack, push * (motor that does not take fuel) engine, mechanism, motor * (trip made in a motor vehicle) ride, spin, trip * (driveway) approach, driveway * (public roadway) avenue, boulevard, road, street * desire, impetus, impulse, urge * disk drive * (golf term) * (baseball term) line drive * (cricket term)

    Antonyms

    * (self-motivation) inertia, lack of motivation, laziness, phlegm, sloth

    Derived terms

    * bridge drive * disk drive * blood drive * food drive * drive-whist * flash drive * floppy drive * four-wheel drive * hard drive * hyperdrive * toy drive * jump drive * left-hand drive * overdrive * right-hand drive * sex drive * warp drive * whist drive

    Derived terms

    * drift * drive out * driver * driverside * driven * driven to distraction * drive Irish tandem * drunk driving * jump drive * piledriver * screwdriver -->