shoot vs snipe

shoot and snipe both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shoot	Yes	No	Yes	No
snipe	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, snipe is a hyponym of shoot; that is, snipe is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than shoot:

Other hyponyms of shoot include blaze, blaze away, overshoot, sharpshoot, fire, open fire, gun, pump.

shoot (noun)	snipe (noun)
the act of shooting at targets	a gunshot from a concealed location
a new branch	Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks

shoot (verb)	snipe (verb)
give an injection to	attack in speech or writing
produce buds, branches, or germinate	aim and shoot with great precision
measure the altitude of by using a sextant	hunt or shoot snipe
record on photographic film
make a film or photograph of something
utter fast and forcefully
fire a shot; release
hit with a missile from a weapon
score
spend frivolously and unwisely
force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
throw dice, as in a crap game
variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
run or move very quickly or hastily
move quickly and violently
send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
cause a sharp and sudden pain in
kill by firing a missile
emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully