Shoot vs Stem - What's the difference?
shoot | stem |
To launch a projectile.
# (label) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
# (label) To fire (a projectile).
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (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)
#* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
#*
, 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)
# (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)
# To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
#* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
# (label) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
# 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)
#* (1800-1859)
# 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)
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# To grow; to advance.
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (1700-1748)
# (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
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
(label) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
* (Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)
To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.(w)
* (1809-1892)
The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
* Evelyn
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
* Drayton
A rush of water; a rapid.
(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
(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)
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
* Milton
* Herbert
A branch of a family.
* Shakespeare
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
* Fuller
(botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
*
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
(linguistic morphology) The main part of an uninflected]] word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and [[declension, declensions derive from their stems.
(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
(music) A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.
(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
To remove the stem from.
To be caused]] or [[derive, derived; to originate.
To descend in a family line.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
* Denham
* Alexander Pope
(skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
As nouns the difference between shoot and stem
is that shoot is the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant while stem is (countable).As a verb shoot
is to launch a projectile.As an interjection shoot
is .shoot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shoten, from (etyl) .Verb
- If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way.
- There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
- 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.
- Sheshoots the Stygian sound.
- Thy words shoot through my heart.
- These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.
- If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
- an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
- a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores
- Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.
- But the wild olive shoots , and shades the ungrateful plain.
- Well shot in years he seemed.
- Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot .
- They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
- Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
- There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
- two pieces of wood that are shot , that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel
- 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 upNoun
(en noun)- Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.
- The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot .
- One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* (hunt or shooting competition) turkey shootEtymology 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, shucksstem
English
(wikipedia stem)Etymology 1
(etyl) stemn, .Noun
(en noun)- all that are of noble stem
- While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
- This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.
- Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
- After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem .
- the stem of an apple or a cherry
Derived terms
* brain stem * from stem to stern * stem cell * stemless * stemplot * unstemmedVerb
(stemm)- to stem''' cherries; to '''stem tobacco leaves
- The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
- As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Cognate with German stemmen, Dutch stemmen, stempen; compare (stammer).Verb
(stemm)- to stem a tide
- [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
- Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.