Other forms: shots
A shot is the firing of a gun, or a single photograph. Hear a shot, a good shot, take a shot.
In photography and film, a shot is one continuous piece of footage or one picture: a wide shot, a close-up shot. In sport, a shot is an attempt to score. In medicine it is an injection, chiefly American. Give it a shot means to try. Note a shot in the dark, meaning a guess; a long shot, meaning unlikely; and call the shots, meaning to be the one deciding.
1nounshotThe firing of a gun.~11%
“We heard a shot, and all the birds flew out of the trees.”
2nounsingleA single photograph or piece of film.~45%
“The film opens with a long shot of the empty desert.”
3nounattemptAn attempt.~44%
“Give it a shot and see what happens.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 19 sentences found in the wild and placed 9 of them on a sense (10 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
shot is a firing, image or attempt.
The past participle of shoot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA