different between bullet vs headstamp

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French boulette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l.?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

bullet (plural bullets)

1. A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
2. (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
3. Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
4. (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, (•), often used in lieu of numbers for marking items in a list. (see also bulleted)
5. (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
6. A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

   John's not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday.

7. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (slang) One year of prison time
8. (slang) An ace (the playing card).
   • 1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor (volumes 2-3, page 135)

     The miser, a-seeking lost gelt,
     The doughboy, awaiting the battle,
     May possibly know how I felt
     While the long years dragged by as the dealer
     As slow as the slowest of dubs,
     Stuck out the last helping of tickets
     'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

9. (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
10. (in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).

    bullet train

    bullet chess

11. (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
12. (Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
13. (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
14. (obsolete) A small ball.
    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

      Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe?

15. (obsolete) A cannonball.
    • 1592, John Stow, The Annales of England

      A ship before Greenwich […] shot off her ordinance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone.

16. (obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.
17. A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
    • 1975, Pete Wingfield, Eighteen with a Bullet (song)

      I'm eighteen with a bullet
      Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna pull it
      […]
      I'm high on the chart
      I'm tip for the top

    • 2013, Hallee Bridgeman, A Melody for James

      Her third release hit number one in record time — “number one with a bullet” as they said in the industry — and after that, there seemed to be no stopping her.

Synonyms

• (projectile shot from a gun): cap (slang), pill (slang), slug (slang)
• (symbol “•”): bullet point

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Verb

bullet (third-person singular simple present bullets, present participle bulleting, simple past and past participle bulleted)

1. (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
2. (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.

   Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.

3. (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.

   He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Etymology 2

From bull +? -let.

Noun

bullet (plural bullets) (rare)

1. A young or little bull; a male calf.

Synonyms

• bullock (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• cowlet, cowling

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bullet, from Middle French [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul?t/, [?b?ul?d?]

Noun

bullet (plural indefinite bullets, no definite forms)

1. (typography) bullet (a printed symbol, e.g. •, used for marking items in a list) [from 1994]

Synonyms

• punkttegn

Latin

Verb

bullet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of bull?

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?pu?lleh(t)/

Verb

b?llet

1. inflection of buollit:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular past indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

English

Etymology

head +? stamp

Noun

headstamp (plural headstamps)

1. (military, firearms) The identification marking on the base (bottom) of a cartridge casing.

   2009 Chivers, C.J. (The New York Times), Is U.S. Ammo going to Taliban?; run in Austin American-Statesman, May 20, 2009, p A-1:

   • Photographs were taken of the weapons' serial numbers and [of the] markings on the bottoms of the cartridge casings, known as headstamps, which can reveal where and when ammunition was made.

Related terms

• ammo, ammunition
• bullet, round

• breechloading
• cartridge, case, shell
• Taliban

Anagrams

• Hampstead