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shot

a. a single photograph

b. a series of frames on cine film concerned with a single event

c. a length of film taken by a single camera without breaks, used with others to build up a full motion picture or television film

2. Sport a heavy metal ball used in the shot put

3. globules of metal occurring in the body of a casting that are harder than the rest of the casting

4. a unit of chain length equal to 75 feet (Brit) or 90 feet (US)

shot

1. (of textiles) woven to give a changing colour effect

2. streaked with colour

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Shot

in film-making, the placement of a subject in a frame of film and also the scale of representation. The distinction between close-ups, medium shots, and long shots is based on the position of the subject. There are also big, medium, and general shots, depending on scale. Varying shots is a basic technique in the pictorial and sequential composition of scenes and episodes in a film.

Shot

a spherical, solid, nonexplosive projectile used in smoothbore artillery and firearms. In the mid-14th century shot was made of stone; iron was used in the 15th century and was subsequently replaced by pig iron (for large-caliber guns) and lead (for small-caliber weapons). Incandescent incendiary shot came into use in the 16th century, and in the 17th century hollow shot filled with explosive powder—grenades—was widely used. Shot became obsolete in the second half of the 19th century when smooth bores were replaced by rifled bores.

shot

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(aerospace engineering)

An act or instance of firing a rocket, especially from the earth's surface.

(engineering)

A charge of some kind of explosive.

Small spherical particles of steel.

Small steel balls used as the cutting agent of a shot drill.

The firing of a blast.

In plastics molding, the yield from one complete molding cycle, including scrap.

(mining engineering)

Coal broken by blasting or other methods.

(ordnance)

A solid projectile for cannon, without a bursting charge; the term projectile is preferred for uniformity in nomenclature.

A mass or load of numerous, relatively small, lead pellets used in a shotgun, as birdshot or buckshot.

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``My grandsire,'' said Hubert, ``drew a good bow at the battle of Hastings, and never shot at such a mark in his life and neither will I.

So saying, he again bent his bow, but on the present occasion looked with attention to his weapon, and changed the string, which he thought was no longer truly round, having been a little frayed by the two former shots. He then took his aim with some deliberation, and the multitude awaited the event in breathless silence.

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And when he saw the face he'd shot at shining on the target he practiced on, all lit up with an infernal light, he did jump.

I'm morally certain now that Jenkins was the undesirable alien Turnbull wanted to convict in another shooting-affair, but you see the shooting gentleman had another shot in his locker."

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"A shot of 108 inches in diameter, and twelve inches in thickness, would weigh, in cast-iron, 67,440 pounds; cast in aluminum, its weight will be reduced to 19,250 pounds."

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“It may be best to go, lad, after all; for, if the shot hangs under the skin, my hand is getting too old to be cutting into human flesh, as I once used to, Though some thirty years agone, in the old war, when I was out under Sir William, I travelled seventy miles alone in the howling wilderness, with a rifle bullet in my thigh, and then cut it out with my own jack-knife.

“ No, no,” said the old roan, shaking his head; “I have work to do at home this Christmas eve—drive on with the boy, and let your doctor look to the shoulder; though if he will only cut out the shot, I have yarbs that will heal the wound quicker than all his foreign

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Arndt, Member of the Council for Brown county, was shot dead ON THE FLOOR OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, by James R.

in the street, AND DISCHARGED THE CONTENTS OF FIVE OF THE BARRELS AT HIM: EACH SHOT TAKING EFFECT.

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went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry's elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart.

The three shots took effect, and down he went dead.

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Then taking up his own good stout bow and nocking an arrow with care, he shot with his very greatest skill.