Surge vs Shoot - What's the difference?
surge | shoot |
A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
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The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation
(electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
(nautical) The swell or heave of the sea. (FM 55-501).
* Bible, James i. 6
* Dryden
(obsolete) A spring; a fountain.
* Ld. Berners
The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
(lb) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
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, title= To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
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, title= To slack off a line.
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
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, 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 nouns the difference between surge and shoot
is that surge is a sudden transient rush, flood or increase while shoot is the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.As verbs the difference between surge and shoot
is that surge is (lb) to rush, flood, or increase suddenly while shoot is to launch a projectile.As an interjection shoot is
.surge
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
- He felt a surge of excitement.
- A power surge at that generator created a blackout across the whole district.
- He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
- He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, / Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.
- divers surges and springs of water
Synonyms
* inrushDerived terms
* countersurge * surgelessVerb
(surg)Athletics and Herbal Supplements, passage=Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.}}
Wales 2-1 Montenegro, passage=Wales began the second half as they ended the first, closing down Montenegro quickly and the pressure told as Bale surged into the box and pulled the ball back for skipper Ramsey, arriving on cue, to double their lead.}}
References
* * * FM 55-501Anagrams
* * ----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...