shot put
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- noun
- /ʃɑt pʊt/
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lanzamiento de peso
- In the championship, he threw the shot put a personal best of 18 meters.
- shot put throw
- shot put champion
- compete in the shot put
Examples
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Ostapchuk was stripped of her gold medal for winning the women's shot put at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Some events, such as the shot put, will allow an athlete a number of individual attempts, and the best effort of three will become the distance of record and be compared to those of other competitors.
Academic text (2006) -
The shot put for high school boys weighs 12 pounds.
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The shot put used in college and at the Olympic level for men weighs 16 pounds.
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Sophomore Larry Jones chipped in for the men with a top ten finish in the shot put.
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Gerry Bertier won a gold medal for the shot put in the wheel chair games.
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She was a high school senior, competing in the shot put at an interscholastic athletics meet.
Fiction book (2000) -
Beth Rohl (New Buffalo, Mich.) led the women, finishing third in the shot put and second in the weight throw.
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BSU's Kayla Campbell was fourth overall in the shot put (12.29m) and Ayanna Tweedy finished sixth (11.05m).
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Bowie State's Brelyn Finley and Brandy Peat placed first and second in the women's Shot Put with throws of 13.07m and 12.87m, respectively.
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Synonyms
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An attempt to score in a sport, for example throwing a heavy ball in shot put
How Far
Surface Forms
Morphology
shot + put
The compound is transparently built from 'shot' (the heavy spherical ball used in the sport) and 'put' (the action of putting/launching the ball), so a learner who knows these constituents can infer it names the event of putting/throwing the shot. This formation follows a clear object+action pattern common across languages and athletic vocabulary, making the meaning directly derivable.
Etymology
Shot put comes from the heavy metal ball called a shot and the old verb put, which meant 'to push' or 'to place'. Athletes push the heavy shot from their shoulder rather than throw it, so the name describes the object and the action and now means the event of throwing a heavy ball as far as possible.