Shot

Shot may refer to:

  • Shot glass, a small glass used for serving or measuring liquor, hence:
    • Shooter (mixed drink), a mixed alcoholic drink served in a shot glass
  • Shot (filmmaking), a part of a film between two cuts
  • Shot (ice hockey), an attempt to score a goal or points
  • Shot put, an event in track and field athletics
  • Shot silk, a type of silk
  • Showt or ShoĊ£, the city in Iran
  • Shooting (association football), a kicking technique in association football
  • Injection (medicine), an injected dose
  • Home run, in baseball slang

SHOT may stand for:

  • Society for the History of Technology, a professional organization for historians of technology
  • Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show, an annual trade show for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry
  • Serious Hazards of Transfusion, a "haemovigilance" organization for monitoring blood transfusion errors in the United Kingdom

Shot, in relation to weaponry, may refer to:

  • Shooting, the act of firing a gun
  • Gunshot, discharge of a firearm
  • Ballistic trauma, gunshot injury
  • Lead shot, small balls of metal generally used as weights or as firearm projectiles
  • Round shot, a solid projectile used in muzzle-loading cannon
  • A nuclear weapon test

In music:

  • Shot, an album by The Jesus Lizard
  • "Shot," a song by The Rasmus
  • Shot, Illusion, New God, an EP by Gruntruck
  • Shot Rev. 2.0, a video album by The Sisters of Mercy

Famous quotes containing the word shot:

    “Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there—I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life.... Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.”
    —Andy Warhol (1928–1987)

    “When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?—Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)