Shot may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Shot'' (album), by The Jesus Lizard *''Shot, Illusion, New God'', an EP by Gruntruck *'' Shot Rev 2.0'', a video album by The Sisters of Mercy * "Shot" (song), by The Rasmus * ''Shot'' (2017 film), an American film starring Noah Wyle *

Shot (filmmaking) In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of film frame, frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. Film shots are an essential aspect of a Film, movie where Camera angle, angles, Film transition, transitions and Cut (tra ...

, a part of a film between two cuts

Organizations

* Serious Hazards of Transfusion, or SHOT, an organisation monitoring blood transfusion errors in the UK *

Society for the History of Technology The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is the primary professional society for historians of technology. SHOT was founded in 1958 in the United States, and it has since become an international society with members "from some thirty-five ...

, or SHOT, a professional organization for historians of technology

Sports

Shot (ice hockey) A shot in ice hockey is an attempt by a player to score a goal by striking or snapping the puck with their stick in the direction of the net. Statistical definition A shot on goal is a scoring attempt. A count of how many shots are tak ...

, an attempt to score a goal or points *

Home run In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the Baseball (ball), ball is hit in such a way that the batting (baseball), batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safe (baseball), safely in one play without any error ( ...

, or shot in baseball slang *

Shot put The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical Ball (sports), ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the Olympic Games, modern Olympics since their 1896 Summer Olym ...

, an event in track and field athletics *

SHOT Show The SHOT Show, which is an acronym for "Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show", is an American annual trade fair, trade show for the shooting sports, hunting, outdoor recreation, and firearm manufacturing industry (economics), industries. The ...

(Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show), an annual trade show for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry *

Cricket shots In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter regardless of wheth ...

, ways of hitting the ball to score in cricket

Weaponry and ballistics

Shot (pellet) Shot is a collective noun, collective term for small spheres or pellets, often made of lead. These have been projected from Sling (weapon), slings since ancient times and were the original projectiles for shotguns and are still fired primarily fr ...

, small balls of metal generally used as shotgun projectiles, or as weights *

Armor-piercing shot and shell Armour-piercing ammunition (AP) is a type of projectile designed to penetrate armour protection, most often including naval armour, body armour, and vehicle armour. The first, major application of armour-piercing projectiles was to defeat the ...

, an artillery shell *

Buckshot A shotgun cartridge, shotshell, or shell is a type of rimmed, cylindrical (straight-walled) ammunition used specifically in shotguns. It is typically loaded with numerous small, spherical sub-projectiles called shot. Shotguns typically use a ...

, a type of shotgun projectiles *

Gunshot A gunshot is a single discharge of a gun, typically a man-portable firearm, producing a visible flash, a powerful and loud shockwave and often chemical gunshot residue. The term can also refer to a ballistic wound caused by such a discharge ...

, discharge of a firearm *

Round shot A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun. Its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the barrel from which it is shot. A round shot fired from a lar ...

, a spherical solid metal projectile *

Sho't Sho't () is the Israeli designation of the Royal Ordnance L7, 105mm L7 armed modified Centurion tank, which entered Israeli service in the 1960s. Versions Sho't Meteor Sho't Meteors are made up of Mark 3, Mark 5, and Mark 8 Centurion (tank) ...

, main battle tank

Other uses

*''Shot'', a slang term for an

injection (medicine) An injection (often and usually referred to as a "shot" in US English, a "jab" in UK English, or a "jag" in Scottish English and Scots) is the act of administering a liquid, especially a drug, into a person's body using a needle (usually a h ...

. *Shot, a fifteen fathom

line length In typography, line length is the width of a block of typeset text, usually measured in units of length like inches or points or in characters per line (in which case it is a measure). A block of text or paragraph has a maximum line length tha ...

of anchor chain * ''Shot'', or ''shott'', a group of adjacent strips or

furlong A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and United States customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to any of 660 foot (unit), feet, 220 yards, 40 rod (unit), rods, 10 chain (unit), chains, or a ...

s in the medieval open field system * Shot, or

shooter (drink) A shooter, or shot, is a small serving of spirits or a mixed drink (usually about ), typically consumed quickly, often in a single gulp. It is common to serve a shooter as a side to a larger drink. Shooters can be shaken, stirred, blended, la ...

, a mixed alcoholic drink served in a shot glass *

Shot glass A shot glass is a glass originally designed to hold or measure spirits or liquor, which is either imbibed straight from the glass ("a shot") or poured into a cocktail ("a drink"). An alcoholic beverage served in a shot glass and typically consu ...

, a small glass used for serving or measuring liquor *

Shot silk Shot silk (also called changeant, changeable silk, changeable taffeta, cross-color, changeable fabric, or "dhoop chaon" ("sunshine shade")) is a fabric which is made up of silk woven from warp and weft yarns of two or more colours producing an ...

, a type of silk *

Showt Showt () is a city in the Central District of Showt County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Tur ...

or ''Shoţ'', a city in Iran

Arts, entertainment, and media

Organizations

Sports

Weaponry and ballistics

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