shot
n. countablen. an attempt to do something, or a single act of firing a gun or hitting a ball. It can also mean a photograph or a small injection of medicine.
n. an act of firing a weapon, hitting a ball in sports, or attempting a task. Also refers to a single photographic image or a hypodermic injection of a vaccine or drug.
He took a shot at the goal but missed.
The doctor gave me a flu shot in my left arm before I left the clinic.
The director insisted on a wide shot to capture the scale of the landscape, even though the lead actor felt a close-up would better convey the character's internal struggle.
The past participle of shoot.
Inherited from Middle English schot, from Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
See scot (“a share”).
Commonly used in the idiomatic phrase 'give it a shot' to mean trying something new.
I had a shot of fluI had a flu shotWhen referring to medical injections, the noun 'shot' usually follows the name of the medicine or disease it treats.