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Shots
- noun - (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot requires good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot"
- a blow hard enough to cause injury; "he is still recovering from a shot to his leg"; "I caught him with a solid shot to the chin"
- a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"
- a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter"
- a small drink of liquor; "he poured a shot of whiskey"
- a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed past his ear"
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every ch
Shows
- noun - a social event involving a public performance or entertainment; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway"
- be or become visible or noticeable; "His good upbringing really shows"; "The dirty side will show"
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
- finish third or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to show"
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience; "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new software in Washington"
- give evidence of, as of records; "The diary shows his distress that evening"
- give expression to; "She showed her disappointment"
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
- indicate a place, direction, pe
Shuns
- verb - avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
- expel from a community or group
Shuts
- verb - become closed;
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut;
- prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"
Shwas
- noun - a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
Sials
- noun - the granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum
Sicks
- noun -
- people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
Sides
- noun - (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
- a family line of descent; "he gets his brains from his father's side"
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure; "the hypotenuse of a right triangle is always the longest side"
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location; "they always sat on the right side of the church"; "he never left my side"
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object; "he examined all sides of the crystal"; "dew dripped from the face of the leaf"
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect); "he was on the heavy side"; "he is on the purchasing side of the business"; "it brought out his better side"
- an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mount
Sifts
- verb - check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
- distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
- move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods"
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
Sighs
- noun - a sound like a person sighing; "she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees"
- An expression of boredom and frustration
- an utterance made by exhaling audibly
- heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; "She sighed sadly"
- utter with a sigh