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Shot

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Shot may refer to:

Places

  • Showt or Shoţ, a city in Iran

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Shot (2017 film), an American film starring Noah Wyle
  • Shot (filmmaking), 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, or SHOT, a professional organization for historians of technology

Sports

  • Shot (ice hockey), an attempt to score a goal or points
  • Home run, or shot in baseball slang
  • Shot put, an event in track and field athletics
  • SHOT Show (Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show), an annual trade show for the shooting, hunting, and firearms industry
  • Cricket shots, ways of hitting the ball to score in cricket

Weaponry and ballistics

  • Shot (pellet), small balls of metal generally used as shotgun projectiles, or as weights
  • Armor-piercing shot and shell, an artillery shell
  • Buckshot, a type of shotgun projectiles
  • Gunshot, discharge of a firearm
  • Round shot, a spherical solid metal projectile
  • Sho't, main battle tank

Other uses

  • Shot (medicine), an injection
  • Shot, a fifteen fathom line length of anchor chain
  • Shot, or shott, a group of adjacent strips or furlongs in the medieval open field system
  • Shot, or shooter (drink), a mixed alcoholic drink served in a shot glass
  • Shot glass, a small glass used for serving or measuring liquor
  • Shot silk, a type of silk

See also

  • The Shot (disambiguation)
  • Moonshot (disambiguation), a rocket launch to the moon
  • Shoot (disambiguation)
  • Shooter (disambiguation)
  • Shooting (association football), a kicking technique in association football
  • Shooting, the act of firing a projectile weapon or device
  • Shots (disambiguation)
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