shoot vs spring

shoot

verb
  • To germinate; to bud; to sprout. 

  • To begin to speak. 

  • To move very quickly and suddenly. 

  • To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. 

  • To plane straight; to fit by planing. 

  • To grow; to advance. 

  • To shoot the moon. 

  • To ejaculate. 

  • To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil. 

  • To photograph. 

  • To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock. 

  • To make the stated score. 

  • To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on. 

  • To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile). 

  • To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously. 

  • To throw dice. 

  • To fire a projectile at (a person or target). 

  • To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ 

  • To dismiss or do away with. 

  • To hunt birds, etc. with a gun. 

  • To lunge. 

  • 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 carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway). 

  • To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute. 

  • To film. 

  • To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile. 

  • To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore. 

  • 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. 

  • To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation. 

  • To fire (a projectile). 

  • To send to someone. 

  • To discharge a missile; said of a weapon. 

  • To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend. 

  • To measure the distance and direction to (a point). 

  • To go over or pass quickly through. 

noun
  • A hunt or shooting competition. 

  • A rush of water; a rapid. 

  • The act of taking all point cards in one hand. 

  • An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute. 

  • A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil. 

  • An event that is unscripted or legitimate. 

  • The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant. 

  • A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick. 

  • A shoat; a young pig. 

  • A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. 

  • A photography session. 

  • The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot. 

intj
  • A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain 

spring

verb
  • To sprout, to grow, 

  • To cause to well up or flow out of the ground. 

  • to descend or originate from. 

  • To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur. 

  • To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter. 

  • To have something crack. 

  • To grow taller or longer. 

  • to catch in an illegal act or compromising position. 

  • To announce unexpectedly, to reveal. 

  • To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape. 

  • To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape. 

  • To extend, to curve. 

  • To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up. 

  • To cause to rise from cover. 

  • To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up. 

  • To cause to crack. 

  • to arise, to come into existence. 

  • To build, to form the initial curve of. 

  • To gush, to flow out of the ground. 

  • To rise from cover. 

  • To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension. 

  • To bring forth. 

  • To crack. 

  • To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable. 

  • To come upon and flush out 

  • To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place. 

  • To swell with milk or pregnancy. 

  • To come dramatically into view. 

  • To spend the springtime somewhere 

  • To gush, to flow suddenly and violently. 

  • to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc. 

  • to find or get enough food during springtime. 

  • To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate. 

  • To be born, descend, or originate from 

  • To appear, to dawn. 

  • To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure. 

adj
  • the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter 

noun
  • The source from which an action or supply of something springs. 

  • An erection of the penis. 

  • A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement. 

  • The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars. 

  • A spray or body of water springing from the ground. 

  • A grove of trees; a forest. 

  • The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life. 

  • A shoot, a young tree. 

  • The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process. 

  • A race, a lineage. 

  • a period of political liberalization and democratization 

  • A cause, a motive, etc. 

  • Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing. 

  • A youth. 

  • Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc. 

  • A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement. 

  • An act of springing: a leap, a jump. 

  • The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere. 

  • Elastic energy, power, or force. 

  • A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched. 

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