different between bullpen vs corral

English

Etymology

bull +? pen

Pronunciation

Noun

bullpen (plural bullpens)

1. An enclosed area used to hold bulls.

   Magnus and Big Buck are over in the bullpen, ready for tonight's rodeo.

2. (baseball) An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game.

   After that hit, there is activity in the bullpen.

3. (baseball) The relief pitchers of a team collectively.

   Their bullpen is worn out after yesterday's doubleheader where both games went 12 innings.

4. (figuratively) A place for someone or something to get ready.

   If this team of consultants fails, I have another warming up in the bullpen.

5. An open seating arrangement where project teams can communicate openly with minimal effort.

   We have our sales team in a bullpen setup to keep their energy flowing.

Translations

Spanish

Noun

bullpen m (plural bullpens)

1. (baseball) bullpen

English

Etymology

From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???æl/, /k?????l/
• Rhymes: -æl
• Hyphenation: cor?ral

Noun

corral (plural corrals)

1. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

2. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.

3. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.

Synonyms

• (livestock enclosure): pen, stockade

Translations

See also

• crawl (Jamaican English)
• kraal (South African English)

Verb

corral (third-person singular simple present corrals, present participle corralling or (US) corraling, simple past and past participle corralled or (US) corraled)

1. To capture or round up.
2. To place inside of a corral.

3. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.

Derived terms

• corraler, corraller

Translations

Anagrams

• Carrol, carrol

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *currale (“place for keeping a chariot”), from currus (“chariot”). Compare Portuguese curral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?ral/, [ko?ral]

Noun

corral m (plural corrales)

1. (cattle) corral, enclosure

   Synonym: cercado

Derived terms

• acorralar
• ave de corral
• Corralejo
• corralito
• tecorral

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: koral
• ? English: corral
• ? Mecayapan Nahuatl: cóla?l
• ? San Juan Colorado Mixtec: cora
• ? Polish: corral
• ? Polish: korral
• ? Tagalog: koral

Further reading

• “corral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• corral on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Anagrams

• clorar