shot

/ʃɒt/

US pronunciation

American sound/ʃɒt/

shot

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> shot

Myanmar meaning

(n) ပစ်ခြင်း (v[pp]) ပစ်သည်။

Full entry

shot¹ /ʃɒt/ n

၁။ [C] ~ (at sb/sth ) ပစ်ခြင်း။ ပစ်ချက်။ ပစ်သံ။ take a shot at the enemy ❍ fire a few shots ❍ hear shots in the distance ❍ Two of her shots hit the target. See also POT-SHOT
၂။ [C] သေနတ်ပစ်(ကောင်း၊ ညံ့ စသည့်) လက်ရည်ရှိသူ။ a first-class/good/poor shot.
၃။ (also lead shot ) [U] (ပြောင်းချောသေနတ်ယမ်းတောင့်ရှိ) ကျည်စေ့။
၄။ [C] (pl unchanged) ရှေးက အမြောက်၌ ထည့်၍ပစ်သော ကျောက်လုံး၊ သံလုံး။ Compare CARTRIDGE ၁, SHELL ၄
၅။ ~ (at sb) ဝေဖန်တိုက်ခိုက်စကား။ His comment was meant as a shot at me. ❍ fire the opening shots in a debate. See also PARTING SHOT
၆။ [C] (sport ) (က) (တင်းနစ်၊ ဂေါက်သီး စသည်) ရိုက်ချက်။ a backhand shot ❍ Good shot!
(ခ) (ဘောလုံး၊ ဟော်ကီစသည်) ဂိုးသွင်းကန်ချက်၊ ရိုက်ချက်။ have a shot at goal ❍ The shot hit the post.
၇။ [C] (က) ဓာတ်ပုံ။ ရိုက်ချက်။ a close-up shot ❍ I got some good shots of people at the party. See also MUG SHOT (ခ) ရုပ်ရှင်ရိုက်ကွက်။ an action shot of a car chase.
၈။ [C] ~ (at sth/doing sth) ကြိုးပမ်းချက်။ အားထုတ်ချက်။ have a shot at (solving) this problem ❍ have a shot at the world record.
၉။ [C] ဒုံးပျံ၊ အာကာသယာဉ် ပစ်လွှတ်ခြင်း။ the second space shot this year ❍ a shot at Mars.
၁၀။ [C] (infml esp US ) ဆေးထိုးခြင်း။ Have you had your typhus shots yet? ❍ The doctor gave him a shot of something to calm him down.
၁၁။ [C] (infml ) တစ်မော့ စာအရက်။ a shot of vodka.
၁၂။ (often the shot ) [sing] (သံလုံးပစ်တွင်)သံလုံး။ put (ie throw) the shot.
❏ like a shot [IDM ] (infml ) ချက်ချင်း။ မဆိုင်းမတွ။ တစ်ကြိုးတည်း။ If I had the chance to go, I'd take it like a shot.
❏ a shot across the/sb's bows [IDM ] တားမြစ်ကြောင်း သိသာရန် သတိပေးချက်။
❏ a shot in the arm [IDM ] အားတက်စရာ။ အားဆေးတစ် ခွက်။ The improved trade figures are a much-needed shot in the arm for the economy.
❏ the shot-put n [sing] (also putting the shot ) သံလုံး ပစ်အားကစား။

shot² /ʃɒt/ adj

၁။ ~ (with sth ) (အရောင်)ဖောက်ထားသော။ shot silk ❍ a black curtain shot with silver ❍ (fig ) brown hair shot with grey.
၂။ (infml ) ကုန်ခန်းသွားသော။ ကြေပြုန်း သွားသော။ Her patience was completely shot. ❍ After the ordeal his nerves were shot to pieces.
❏ be/get shot of sb/sth [IDM ] (infml ) လွတ်ကင်းသည်။ လက်လွတ်သည်။ We'll soon be shot of this awful place. ❍ By the end of the weekend I couldn't wait to get shot of them.
❏ shot through with sth [IDM ] ပြွမ်းနေသော။ ရောယှက်နေ သော။ a statement shot through with feeling.

shot³ pt, pp of SHOOT¹

More examples

[fire a shot] : The man fired two shots from a handgun.
The third shot hit the officer in the chest.
The neighbours say they heard four shots.
[a good/bad shot] : Mills was a very good shot.
You get tired and you start playing bad shots.
That was another fine shot from Tiger Woods.
[shot at] : They didn’t manage to get a single shot at our goal.
[a close-up shot] : Viewers can see a close-up shot of the artist’s hands.
[an opening shot] : The opening shot is of a man walking across a field.
Harold took a great shot of the dogs playing together.
[shot at] : This is her first shot at an international title.
[have/get a shot at something] : We had a shot at bringing the ship round into the harbour.
[give something your best shot] : Give it your best shot – that’s all you can do.
[an opening shot] : It was the opening shot in the battle for control of the company.
[shot of] : A shot of tequila
[have/get a shot] : When is the last time you had a tetanus shot?

Synonyms

blast, gunshot, explosion, aged, all in, all torn up, ammunition, attempt, ausgespielt, ball, bang, bash, beat-up, been around, bone-weary, break, broken, broken down, buckshot, bullet, bundle of nerves, burnt-out, busted up, cannonball, chance, cliched, clichÃ©d, come to an end, coming unstuck, composition, conjecture, contused, crack, creaky, damaged, dart, dead on one's feet, dead tired, discharge; ammunition, dog tired, dog-tired, done for, done with, done-in, drink, dwarfish, effort, endeavor, executed, exhausted, fagged, fallen apart, far-gone, flawed, fling, flubbed, fluttery, fordone, frame, garroted, gassed, glass, glitched, go, gone to pieces, gone to pot, guess, had it, half-pint, hurt, hyper, in a tizzy, in disrepair, in need of repair, in pain, in poor condition, in smithereens, in the shop, injection, inoculation, inoperable, intravenous, iridescent, jab, jigger, kerflooey, keyed up, lead, lob, measure, missile, miter, mucked up, nervous wreck, no go, not functioning, not working, occasion, oldie, on the blink, on the shelf, opening, opportunity, out of action, out of gas, out of kilter, out of whack, out on one's feet, outta gas, over and done, over the hill, overanxious, packed up, packed-up, peewee, pegged out, pellet, pellets, photo, photograph, picture, pint-sized, played out, played-out, pooped, pop, potshot, projectile, ready to drop, report, round, ruined, run ragged, runted, runtish, runty, scene, scrubber, senescent, sequence, shells, shot to pieces, show, shrimp, shrimper, slap, slug, small fry, snafued, snap, snapshot, spent, stab, stressful, strung out, stunted, surmise, tense, the worse for wear, throw

Antonyms

backfire, bad luck, calculation, idleness, laziness, measurement, misfortune, reality, truth