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Name

• Shot, a Balkan hip hop poducer

In general

• A single round fired from a firearm may be a warning shot; also, it may leave a person or animal shot, i.e. having sustained a gunshot wound.
• lead shot, usually iron or lead, used in shotgun cartridges and other anti-personnel weapons. A similar usage, common through the early part of the Second World War, refers to a solid-metal armor piercing projectile, most often fired from a cannon.
• A type of solid projectile used in muzzle-loading cannon.

Firearms redirects here. ... A warning shot (in nautical terms, often a shot across the bow) is a harmless artillery shot intended to call attention. ... The field of wound ballistics largely comprises the study of the physiology and medical effects of projectile weapons (chiefly, but not exclusively, bullets) on humans. ... Lead shot is small balls of lead, traditional made using a shot tower. ... For other uses, see Shotgun (disambiguation). ... An anti-personnel weapon is one primarily used to injure or kill people. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... An Armour piercing shell is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate armour. ... A projectile is any object sent through space by the application of a force. ... For other uses, see Cannon (disambiguation). ... A projectile is any object sent through space by the application of a force. ... A muzzleloader is any firearm into which the bullet is loaded from the muzzle of the gun (open end of the gun barrel). ... For other uses, see Cannon (disambiguation). ...

In media

• Shot (film) is part of a film between two cuts.
• Shot (song), a song by the Finnish rock-band The Rasmus.
• Shot is a Croatian music producer, mainly associated with Edo Maajka
• Shot Rev. 2.0 is a Video Album by The Sisters of Mercy

In film, a shot is a continuous strip of motion picture film, created of a series of frames, that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. ... Shot is a song by the Finnish rock-band The Rasmus, originally released on the bands sixth studio album Hide from the Sun on September 2, 2006. ... The Rasmus are a Finnish rock band that spawned in 1994 in Helsinki, Finland while the band members were still in high school. ... Edo Maajka (born as Edin Osmić on December 22, 1978 in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ex-Yugoslavia) is a rapper from Bosnia and Herzegovina Edins stage name Edo Maajka means Edo the Mother. // In 1992 when the Bosnian war started, Edo left his homeland Bosnia and went to... For the religious organisation of this name, see Sisters of Mercy. ...

In sports

• Shot (ice hockey) Using a hockey stick to fling a hockey puck in the sport of ice hockey.
• An attempt to score a goal in various sports including ice hockey, basketball, football (soccer) and golf.
• A takedown in wrestling and other types of grappling.

A shot in ice hockey is an attempt by a player to score a goal by striking the puck with his stick in the direction of the net. ... Hockey sticks, regular and goalie, measurements in cm. ... Two standard hockey pucks. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... A shot in ice hockey is an attempt by a player to score a goal by striking the puck with his stick in the direction of the net. ... This article is about the sport. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... This article is about the sport. ... A takedown is a martial arts and combat sports term for a technique that involves off-balancing an opponent and forcing him or her to the ground, typically with the combatant performing the takedown landing on top. ... Ancient Greek wrestlers (Pankratiasts) Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons, in which each wrestler strives to get an advantage over or control of their opponent. ... For other uses, see Grapple. ...

Technical

• A length of chain, equal to 15 fathoms or 90 feet (used in maritime language)
• An injection of medicine performed using a syringe and hypodermic needle.
• Silk woven from warp and weft strands of two or more different colours is called shot silk, and has an iridescent appearance.
• The Society for the History of Technology is commonly known as SHOT.

An injection is a method of putting liquid into the body with a hollow needle and a syringe which is pierced through the skin to a sufficient depth for the material to be forced into the body. ... A syringe nowadays nearly always means a medical syringe, but it can mean any of these: A simple hand-powered piston pump consisting of a plunger that can be pulled and pushed along inside a cylindrical tube (the barrel), which has a small hole on one end, so it can... Different bevels on hypodermic needles. ... For other uses of this word, see Silk (disambiguation). ... WaRp. ... WEFT Champaign 90. ... The Society for the History of Technology, or SHOT, is the primary professional society for historians of technology. ...

In popular culture

• A colloquial term used in South Africa meaning "Thank you".
• Shot glass, a glass for an alcoholic beverage of 1 or 1.5 fluid ounces in the U.S. or 20, 25 or 35 ml in the rest of the world.
• Mixed drink shooters and drink shots, a one- to four-ounce alcoholic beverage.
• common name of the shotput
• A shot of coffee, served plain by itself, with flavoured cremes, or used in the preparation of espresso-based coffee by a barista.

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