Shot may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Shot'' (album), by The Jesus Lizard
*''Shot, Illusion, New God'', an EP by
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Shot Rev 2.0'', a video album by The Sisters of Mercy
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"Shot" (song), by The Rasmus
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''Shot'' (2017 film), an American film starring Noah Wyle
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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
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Serious Hazards of Transfusion, or SHOT, an organisation monitoring blood transfusion errors in the UK
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Society for the History of Technology, or SHOT, a professional organization for historians of technology
Sports
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Shot (ice hockey), an attempt to score a goal or points
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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
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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
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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
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Cricket shots, ways of hitting the ball to score in cricket
Weaponry and ballistics
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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
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Armor-piercing shot and shell, an artillery shell
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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*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 mixed alcoholic drink served in a shot glass
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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
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Shot silk, a type of silk
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Showt or ''Shoţ'', a city in Iran
See also
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The Shot (disambiguation)
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Moonshot (disambiguation), a rocket launch to the moon
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Shots (disambiguation)
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Shoot (disambiguation)
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Shooter (disambiguation)
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Shooting (association football)
In association football, shooting is hitting the ball in an attempt to Scoring in association football, score a goal. It is usually done using the feet or head. A shot on target or shot on goal is a shot that enters the goal or would have enter ...
, a kicking technique in association football
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Shooting
Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missile ...
, the act of firing a projectile weapon or device
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