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Collocations for shoot - noun

1. new part of a plant

ADJECTIVE

fresh, green, new, tender, young
growing
flowering, leafy
lateral, side
bamboo

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VERB + shoot

have
This plant has no shoots yet.
develop, produce, put out (esp. BrE), put up (esp. AmE), send out, send up (esp. AmE)
These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots.

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shoot + VERB

appear, come up, develop, emerge, grow
Keep the bulbs in a cool dark place until shoots appear.

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2. occasion when you photograph sb/sth

ADJECTIVE

commercial, cover, fashion, film (esp. BrE), magazine, movie (esp. AmE), photo, photographic (BrE), video
a cover shoot for the September issue of Cosmopolitan
a five-day photo shoot in Cyprus
location
night
an outdoor night shoot on a balcony in Prague
one-day, two-day, etc.

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PREPOSITION

on a/the shoot
He goes out on photo shoots with very little equipment.

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Collocations for shoot - verb

ADVERB

accurately, straight
She trained for days until she could shoot straight.
accidentally
He accidentally shot himself in the foot.
fatally
Four policemen were fatally shot in the incident.
summarily
If caught, the men could be summarily shot as spies.
back
The soldiers shot back at invading planes with rifles.
down
The airliner was shot down near Korea.

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VERB + shoot

want to
threaten to
be about to, be going to
I thought for a moment that he was going to shoot.
try to

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PREPOSITION

at
The soldiers were shooting at a target.
in
He was shot in the back.
into
Troops shot into the air to stop the rioting.
with
She was shot with a small automatic pistol.

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PHRASES

shoot (sb) on sight
Any intruders will be shot on sight.
shoot sb dead
The police shot him dead.
Twenty wolves have been shot dead in Alaska.
shoot to kill
The soldiers were told to shoot to kill.
a shoot-to-kill policy
shot and killed
Four protestors were shot and killed by police.
shot to death
She was shot to death for a crime she did not commit.

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Shoot is used with these nouns as the subject:
arrow, bullet, cannon, eye, flame, gun, photographer, troops

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Shoot is used with these nouns as the object:
adaptation, arrow, basket, beam, bow, bullet, cannon, demonstrator, elephant, episode, film, firework, glance, glare, gun, heroin, laser, look, model, movie, photograph, rabbit, rocket, round, scene, sequence, spark, vermin, video

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