(n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.
(v. i.) To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object.
(v. i.) To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
(v. i.) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.
(v. i.) To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
(v. i.) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
(v. i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
(v. i.) To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
(v. i.) To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
(v. i.) To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.
(v. i.) To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
(v. i.) To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.
(v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.
(v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
(v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
(v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
(v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
(v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
(v. i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
(n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
(n.) A young branch or growth.
(n.) A rush of water; a rapid.
(n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
(n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
(n.) A shoat; a young hog.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
(2) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(3) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(4) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(5) An investigation into the shooting by the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s office has been completed and handed to the office of McGinty, the county prosecutor.
(6) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(7) Holmes, 25, is charged with more than 166 separate offences relating to the mass shooting of 20 July in Aurora, including first degree murder.
(8) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(9) So far this year, we have seen more than 350 mass shootings in the US and it happens almost every day.
(10) I said ‘ periodista, no dispare ’ – it means ‘journalist, don’t shoot’ – ‘ por favor ’.
(11) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
(12) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
(13) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(14) They shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’ They told her: ‘We’re going to shoot.’ “The shooting resumed.
(15) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(16) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
(17) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
(18) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
(19) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
(20) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
Withe
Definition:
(n.) A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
(n.) A band consisting of a twig twisted.
(n.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe.
(n.) A partition between flues in a chimney.
(v. t.) To bind or fasten with withes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ridges interlink with definitive rows of particles associated withe PF fracture face of the innter leaflet of the plasma membrane.
(2) T-cell antigens were detectable in all specimens positive for rosette formation withe untreated erythrocytes, in four of the six specimens positive for rosette formation with AET-treated erythrocytes, and in four specimens that showed no rosette formation under any of the experimental conditions used.
(3) In stationary CEF cells arrested in the G1 phase of the cell replication cycle by serum deprivation and infected withe CELO virs, no cytopathic effect could be observed, and only very low amounts of virus were produced.
(4) Partners include Adidas, Nike, Withings, Intel, Asus, RunKeeper, LG, Basis, Runtastic and Polar.
(5) The Barber Suggestibility Scale, as a measure of hypnotic susceptibility, was administered to 130 British undergraduate students by 13 student experimenters in a 2 x 2 factorial design withe sex of the subject and the sex of the experimenter as the two variables.
(6) Medical treatment is potentially more important than surgical treatment for the large majority of patients presenting withe breast cancer.
(7) Although these bacteria rarely occur in clinical specimens, the clinical microbiologist should be familiar withe their outstanding characteristics.
(8) Apple announced partners for its HomeKit – the developer platform underlying the Home app – including Texas Instruments, Philips, Haier, Netamo, Withings, Honeywell, Marvel, Osram and Broadcom.
(9) Withing’s new Aura promises to wake you up with “scientifically validated” coloured light when you’re ready in the morning.
(10) These results suggest that an extensor spasticity withe flexor weakness, which is common in capsular hemiplegia, may be due to an imbalance of reflex activities via Ia muscle afferents, and that a part of flexor weakness can be restored by "disinhibition' by reduction of Ia inflow from extensor muscles.
(11) One of the major metabolites is 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen which we have identified by cocrystallisation withe non radioactive compound and which is known to display a high affinity for the estrogen receptor.
(12) Interaction of copper(II) with guanosine, 2'-deoxyguanosine, 1-methylguanosine, 7-methylguanosine and GMP was studied withe use of spectroscopic and magneto-chemical methods.
(13) Although a total response rate of 96 percent was achieved after six months, the results showed that cigarette smoker response rates were considerably lower than the other smoker categories withing 30 days and within 60 days of the original mailing date.
(14) 52 patients with benign monoclonal gammopathy were HLA typed and compared withe 48 patients with malignant monoclonal gammopathy.
(15) By the use of complexes of HSA-anti-HSA in ten times antigen excess, the time for localization of HSA withing germinal centres was accelerated as compared with soluble HSA, so that newly formed centres containing antigen-bearing dendritic ells were seen at 48 hours instead of 72 hours after use of soluble HSA.
(16) In Chinese hamster cells immediately after medium changing in stationary cultures there is an augmentation of PSH content in parallel withe the increase in RNA synthesis rate.
(17) All tumors activated sulfate to adenosine-3'-phospho-5'-phosphosulfate and the concentrations were significantly correlated withe the recorded levels of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate.
(18) Neither the total dose of radiation nor the dose per week correlated withe the severity of reaction or death.
(19) In contrast, progression was very rapid in two of 300 other patients with the disease, leading to fatal thyrotoxic crisis withing three months in one.
(20) This effect was greater withe native than with partially reduced SC.