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!

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