Showing posts with label shot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shot. Show all posts

Friday, March 2, 2012

shoot, chute

Shoot or shoot means to fire or throw something--
Tell the children not to shoot those arrows at the house.
They went to the firing range to shoot at paper targets.
Shoot also means the new growth of a plant--
I can see one green shoot coming up where we planted the seeds.
Water the seeds, then look for the first little shoot.

Chute or chute ( rhymes with shoot ) means a shaft or trough, perhaps with a slide, down which something can be dropped, or through which something can be moved--
There is a trash chute in the hall of the apartment building.
Their house had a laundry chute they could use to drop the laundry into the basement.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Just shoot all the trash down the garbage chute."

Note--"shot" is the past tense ( yesterday, or some time ago ) of "shoot"--
Today we shoot.
Yesterday we shot.
"Shot" is also a noun ( thing or idea ), meaning the firing or throwing of something--
Take a shot.
It's your shot!