The difference between Shoot and Throw

Shoot as a verb (transitive):

To launch a projectile. To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile). To fire (a projectile). To fire a projectile at (a person or target). To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile. To ejaculate. To begin to speak. To discharge a missile; said of a weapon. To dismiss or do away with. To photograph. To film.

Shoot as a verb (intransitive):

To move or act quickly or suddenly. To move very quickly and suddenly. To go over or pass quickly through. To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute. To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. To send to someone.

Shoot as a verb (sport):

To act or achieve. To lunge. To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script). To make the stated score.

Shoot as a verb (surveying):

To measure the distance and direction to (a point).

Shoot as a verb (transitive, intransitive, colloquial):

To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.

Shoot as a verb (nautical):

To develop, move forward. To germinate; to bud; to sprout. To grow; to advance. To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.

Shoot as a verb:

To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.

Shoot as a verb (carpentry):

To plane straight; to fit by planing.

Shoot as a verb:

To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.

Shoot as a noun:

The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

Shoot as a noun:

A photography session.

Shoot as a noun:

A hunt or shooting competition.

Shoot as a noun (professional wrestling, slang):

An event that is unscripted or legitimate.

Shoot as a noun:

The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.

Shoot as a noun:

A rush of water; a rapid.

Shoot as a noun (mining):

A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

Shoot as a noun (weaving):

A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

Shoot as a noun:

A shoat; a young pig.

Shoot as a noun:

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.

Throw as a verb (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England):

To twist or turn.

Throw as a verb (transitive):

To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.

Throw as a verb (transitive):

To eject or cause to fall off.

Throw as a verb (transitive):

To move to another position or condition; to displace.

Throw as a verb (ceramics):

To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.

Throw as a verb (transitive, cricket):

Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.

Throw as a verb (transitive, computing):

To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

Throw as a verb (sports):

To intentionally lose a game.

Throw as a verb (transitive, informal):

To confuse or mislead.

Throw as a verb (figuratively):

To send desperately.

Throw as a verb (transitive):

To imprison.

Throw as a verb:

To organize an event, especially a party.

Throw as a verb:

To roll (a die or dice).

Throw as a verb (transitive):

To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.

Throw as a verb (transitive, bridge):

To discard.

Throw as a verb (martial arts):

To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.

Throw as a verb (transitive, said of one's voice):

To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.

Throw as a verb (transitive):

To show sudden emotion, especially anger.

Throw as a verb (transitive):

To project or send forth.

Throw as a verb:

To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

Throw as a verb:

To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.

Throw as a verb (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.):

To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).

Throw as a verb (transitive):

To install a bridge.

Throw as a noun:

The flight of a thrown object

Throw as a noun:

The act of throwing something.

Throw as a noun:

One's ability to throw

Throw as a noun:

A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.

Throw as a noun:

A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.

Throw as a noun:

A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.

Throw as a noun:

Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.

Throw as a noun (veterinary):

The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.

Throw as a verb (transitive, said of animals):

To give birth to.

Throw as a noun (obsolete):

A moment, time, occasion.

Throw as a noun (obsolete):

A period of time; a while.

Throw as a noun: