<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>An object or weapon for throwing, hurling, or shooting, as a stone, bullet, or arrow.</li><li>Guided missile.</li><li>Ballistic missile.</li><li>A discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.</li><li>The range of or the distance traveled by a missile in its flight.</li><li>An aimed discharge of a missile.</li><li>An attempt to hit a target with a missile.</li><li>An act or instance of shooting a firearm, bow, etc.</li><li>A small ball or pellet of lead, a number of which are loaded in a cartridge and used for one charge of a shotgun.</li><li>Such pellets collectively: a charge of shot.</li><li>A projectile for discharge from a firearm or cannon.</li><li>Such projectiles collectively: shot and shell.</li><li>A person who shoots; marksman: He was a good shot.</li><li>Slang: a blow; punch: The prizefighter was knocked out by a shot in the chin.</li><li>Anything like a shot, especially in being sudden and forceful.</li><li>A heavy metal ball that competitors cast as far as possible in shot-putting contests.</li><li>An aimed stroke, throw, or the like, as in certain games, especially in an attempt to score.</li><li>An attempt or try: He's entitled to a shot at the championship.</li><li>A remark aimed at some person or thing.</li><li>A guess at something.</li><li>A hypodermic injection, as of a serum, vaccine, narcotic, or anesthetic: He took a series of immunizing shots for hay fever.</li><li>A small quantity, especially an ounce, of undiluted liquor.</li><li>An amount due, especially at a tavern.</li><li>Photography: a photograph, especially a snapshot: Here's a nice shot of my kids.</li><li>The act of making a photograph, especially a snapshot.</li><li>Movies, Television: a unit of action photographed without interruption and constituting a single camera view.</li><li>An explosive charge in place for detonation, as in mining or quarrying.</li><li>Metallurgy: comparatively hard globules of metal in the body of a casting.</li><li>Nautical: a 90-foot (27-meter) length of anchor cable or chain.</li><li>Checkers: a compulsory series of exchanges, especially when it proves favorable to the aggressor.</li><li>Textiles: a pick sent through the shed in a single throw of the shuttle.</li><li>(In carpet weaving) filling yarn used to bind the pile to the fabric, usually expressed with a preceding number representing the quantity of picks used: three-shot carpet.</li><li>A defect in a fabric caused by an unusual color or size in the yarn.</li><li>A chance with odds for and against; a bet: a 20 to 1 shot that his horse will come in first.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) to load or supply with shot.</li><li>To weight with shot.</li><li>(Used without object) to manufacture shot, as in a shot tower.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>