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shot1
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noun
1‘a shot rang out’
SYNONYMS
report, crack, bang, blast, explosion, discharge
gunfire
2‘the cannon have run out of shot’
SYNONYMS
ball, bullet, cannonball, slug, projectile
pellets, ammunition
3‘his partner pulled off a winning backhand shot’
SYNONYMS
stroke, hit, strike
kick, throw, pitch, roll, bowl, lob, fling, hurl, shot-put
4‘Mike was an excellent shot’
SYNONYMS
marksman, markswoman, shooter, rifleman
rare shootist
5‘here's a shot of us on holiday’
SYNONYMS
photograph, photo, snap, snapshot, picture, likeness, image, portrait, study, print, slide, transparency, negative, positive, plate, film, bromide, frame, exposure, still, proof, enprint, enlargement
6‘it's nice to get a shot at steering’
SYNONYMS
attempt, try, effort, endeavour
turn, chance, opportunity
guess
informal go, stab, crack, bash, whack
formal essay
7‘you need typhoid and cholera shots’
SYNONYMS
injection, inoculation, immunization, vaccination, revaccination, booster
venepuncture
informal jab, fix, hype
shot2
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adjective
1‘shot silk’
SYNONYMS
variegated, mottled, watered, moiré
multicoloured, many-coloured, varicoloured
iridescent, opalescent, lustrous, shimmering
Phrases
- not by a long shot
‘he is not yet out of the woods, not by a long shot’
SYNONYMS
by no means, by no manner of means, not at all, in no way, not in the least, not in the slightest, not the least bit, certainly not, absolutely not, definitely not, on no account, under no circumstances
British not by a long chalk
informal no way
‘Cunliffe admitted that his figure was little more than a shot in the dark’
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guess, random guess, wild guess, surmise, supposition, conjecture, speculation, theorizing
‘the improvements will provide a shot in the arm for thousands of small businesses’
SYNONYMS
boost, fillip, pick-me-up, tonic, stimulus, spur, push, impetus, encouragement
ANTONYMS
blow
‘he would take the job like a shot’
SYNONYMS
without hesitation, unhesitatingly, very willingly, eagerly, enthusiastically, gladly
immediately, at once, right away, right now, quickly, straight away, instantly, instantaneously, directly, forthwith, promptly, without delay
informal in a flash, like a flash, before one can say Jack Robinson, before one can say knife
‘the group also got shot of its brewing interests’
SYNONYMS
dispose of, do away with, throw away, throw out, toss out, clear out, discard, scrap, remove, dispense with, lose, dump, bin, unload, jettison, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out
get rid of, chuck, chuck away, ditch, junk, get shut of
British see the back of
North American shuck off
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