Summon vs Shoot - What's the difference?
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To call people together; to convene.
* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence .
To ask someone to come; to send for.
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(legal) To order someone to appear in court, especially by issuing a summons.
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)
As verbs the difference between summon and shoot
is that summon is to call people together; to convene while shoot is to launch a projectile.As nouns the difference between summon and shoot
is that summon is call, command, order while shoot is the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.As an interjection shoot is
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English
(wikipedia summon)Verb
(en-verb) (transitive)- Silence is primary, summoning presence to itself; so it's a connection to the realm of origin.
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- City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.
Derived terms
* summons * summon upshoot
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...
