Putting the shot

Definition

shot 1 /ʃɒt/ n ၁။ [C] ~ (at sb/sth ) ပစ္ျခင္း။ ပစ္ခ်က္။ ပစ္သံ။ 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] ေသနတ္ပစ္(ေကာင္း၊ ညံ့ စသည့္) လက္ရည္ရိွသူ။ a first-class/good/poor shot. ၃။ (also lead shot ) [U] (ေျပာင္းေခ်ာေသနတ္ယမ္းေတာင့္ရိွ) က်ည္ေစ့။ ၄။ [C] ( pl unchanged) ေရွးက အေျမာက္၌ ထည့္၍ပစ္ေသာ ေက်ာက္လံုး၊ သံလံုး။ Compare CARTRIDGE ၁, SHELL ၄ ၅။ ~ (at sb) ေဝဖန္တိုက္ခိုက္စကား။ His comment was meant as a shot at me. ❍ fire the opening shots in a debate. See also PARTING SHOT ၆။ [C] ( sport ) (က) (တင္းနစ္၊ ေဂါက္သီး စသည္) ႐ိုက္ခ်က္။ a backhand shot ❍ Good shot! (ခ) (ေဘာလံုး၊ ေဟာ္ကီစသည္) ဂိုးသြင္းကန္ခ်က္၊ ႐ိုက္ခ်က္။ have a shot at goal ❍ The shot hit the post. ၇။ [C] (က) ဓာတ္ပံု။ ႐ိုက္ခ်က္။ a close-up shot ❍ I got some good shots of people at the party. See also MUG SHOT (ခ) ႐ုပ္ရွင္႐ိုက္ကြက္။ an action shot of a car chase. ၈။ [C] ~ (at sth/doing sth) ႀကိဳးပမ္းခ်က္။ အားထုတ္ခ်က္။ have a shot at (solving) this problem ❍ have a shot at the world record. ၉။ [C] ဒံုးပ်ံ၊ အာကာသယာဥ္ ပစ္လႊတ္ျခင္း။ the second space shot this year ❍ a shot at Mars. ၁၀။ [C] ( infml esp US ) ေဆးထိုးျခင္း။ Have you had your typhus shots yet? ❍ The doctor gave him a shot of something to calm him down. ၁၁။ [C] ( infml ) တစ္ေမာ့ စာအရက္။ a shot of vodka. ၁၂။ (often the shot ) [sing] (သံလံုးပစ္တြင္)သံလံုး။ put (ie throw) the shot. ❏ like a shot [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ မဆိုင္းမတြ။ တစ္ႀကိဳးတည္း။ If I had the chance to go, I'd take it like a shot. ❏ a shot across the/sb's bows [ IDM ] တားျမစ္ေၾကာင္း သိသာရန္ သတိေပးခ်က္။ ❏ a shot in the arm [ IDM ] အားတက္စရာ။ အားေဆးတစ္ ခြက္။ The improved trade figures are a much-needed shot in the arm for the economy. ❏ the shot-put n [sing] (also putting the shot ) သံလံုး ပစ္အားကစား။ shot 2 /ʃɒt/ adj ၁။ ~ (with sth ) (အေရာင္)ေဖာက္ထားေသာ။ shot silk ❍ a black curtain shot with silver ❍ ( fig ) brown hair shot with grey. ၂။ ( infml ) ကုန္ခန္းသြားေသာ။ ေၾကျပဳန္း သြားေသာ။ Her patience was completely shot. ❍ After the ordeal his nerves were shot to pieces. ❏ be/get shot of sb/sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) လြတ္ကင္းသည္။ လက္လြတ္သည္။ 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 ] ႁပြမ္းေနေသာ။ ေရာယွက္ေန ေသာ။ a statement shot through with feeling. shot 3 pt, pp of SHOOT 1

Examples

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