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bullet
English
Etymology 1
From Middle French boulette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?l.?t/
- Rhymes: -?l?t
Noun
bullet (plural bullets)
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- (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)
- (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- 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.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (slang) One year of prison time
- (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!
- The miser, a-seeking lost gelt,
- 1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor (volumes 2-3, page 135)
- (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- (in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).
- bullet train
- bullet chess
- (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
- (Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
- (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- (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?
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- (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.
- 1592, John Stow, The Annales of England
- (obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.
- 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
- I'm eighteen with a bullet
- 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.
- 1975, Pete Wingfield, Eighteen with a Bullet (song)
Synonyms
- (projectile shot from a gun): cap (slang), pill (slang), slug (slang)
- (symbol “•”): bullet point
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
bullet (third-person singular simple present bullets, present participle bulleting, simple past and past participle bulleted)
- (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
- (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
- Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.
- (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)
- 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)
- (typography) bullet (a printed symbol, e.g. •, used for marking items in a list) [from 1994]
Synonyms
- punkttegn
Latin
Verb
bullet
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of bull?
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?pu?lleh(t)/
Verb
b?llet
- inflection of buollit:
- third-person plural present indicative
- second-person singular past indicative
- second-person plural imperative
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ogive
English
Etymology
From late Middle English, from Middle French augive/ogive. Doublet of ogee.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????a?v/, /???d?a?v/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o??a?v/, /?o?d?a?v/
Noun
ogive (plural ogives)
- (statistics) The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
- (architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.
- (ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.
- (geology) A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change.
Related terms
- ogee
- ogival
Translations
Further reading
- ogive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointed arch (architecture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- vogie
French
Alternative forms
- augive (obsolete)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin [Term?], from Latin aug?re, as the ogive goes on increasing, and the arch it forms increases the strength of the vault. In Old French we find the phrase arc ogif, itself from Latin arcus augivus. The word was also written as augive in the 17th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.?iv/
Noun
ogive f (plural ogives)
- (architecture) diagonal rib, ogive
- (military) nose cone (of missile)
Derived terms
- croisée d'ogives
- ogive nucléaire
Descendants
- English: ogee
References
- Brachet, An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy
Further reading
- “ogive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
ogive f
- plural of ogiva
Anagrams
- Giove
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