Seedling vs Shoot - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between seedling and shoot

is that seedling is a young plant grown from seed while shoot is the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

As an adjective seedling

is which is a seedling (see below.

As a verb shoot is

to launch a projectile.

As an interjection shoot is

A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain

seedling
English

Adjective
(en adjective)
which is a seedling (see below)

Noun
(en noun)
(botany) A young plant grown from seed

Any young, especially

# one grown in a nursery for transplanting

# a tree smaller than a sapling.

References
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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.

Quotations
* (English Citations of "shoot")
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
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