Wing vs Shoot - What's the difference?

Wing is a related term of shoot.

As nouns the difference between wing and shoot

is that wing is an appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly while shoot is the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

As verbs the difference between wing and shoot

is that wing is (lb) to injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm while shoot is to launch a projectile.

As an interjection shoot is

wing

English

(wikipedia)

Alternative forms

* whing (obsolete) * weng (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.

(slang) Human arm.

Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.

One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.

One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

(botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

(botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

Passage by flying; flight.

to take wing

* Shakespeare

Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood.

Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

* Shakespeare

Fiery expedition be my wing .

A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.

An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:

# (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.

# (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.

(British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

(nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.

(nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

(Totten)

(sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.

(sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger

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(botany) A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.

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* 1985 , David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary , page 378

? wing , wedge, h?cek, inverted circumflex (Karel ?apek )

One of the sides of the stage in a theatre.

Synonyms

* (panel of a car) fender (US), guard (Australia) * (sports position) forward

Derived terms

* left wing * on the wing * redwing * right wing * take under one's wing * wingman * wing it * winged * winger

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.

(lb) To fly.

*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

To add a wing (extra part) to.

(lb) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

(lb) To throw.

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.

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# 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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