From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology 1
[wikipedia]
From [en], from [en], diminutive of [fro]. Later influenced by [frm] and
[fr].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Noun
[~]
1. A projectile , usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
2. [en] 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. * [part=1]
5. [en] A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “ • ”, often used to mark items in a list .
6. [en] A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan ; a balloon payment .
7. A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
8. [en] [en] One year of prison time .
9. [en] An ace (the playing card ).
10. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1969 | author=Robert L. Vann | title=The Competitor | volume=2-3 | page=135
|passage=The miser, a-seeking lost gelt,<br>The doughboy, awaiting the
battle,<br>May possibly know how I felt<br>While the long years dragged by as
the dealer<br>As slow as the slowest of dubs,<br>Stuck out the last helping of
tickets<br>'Till I lifted—the BULLET of Clubs!}}
1. [en] Anything that is projected extremely fast.
2. * [en]
3. [en] Very fast [speedy] .
4. [en] [en] .
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. [en] A plumb or sinker .
9. [en] The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling .
10. [en] A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate .
11. [en] A small ball . < !--Webster 1913-->
12. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1881 | author=s:Robert Louis Stevenson | title=s:Virginibus Puerisque
|passage=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?}}
1. [en] A cannonball .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1592 | author=w:John Stow | title=The Annales of England
|passage=A ship before Greenwich [...] shot off her ordinance, one piece being
charged with a BULLET of stone.}}
1. [en] The fetlock of a horse .
2. [en] The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
3. A notation used on pop music chart s to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
4. * {{ quote-song | en | year=1975 | author=Pete Wingfield | title=Eighteen with a Bullet
|passage=I'm eighteen with a BULLET<br>Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna
pull it<br>[...]<br>I'm high on the chart<br>I'm tip for the top}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=Hallee Bridgeman | title=A Melody for James
|passage=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.}}
***** Hyponyms
{{col4|en|title=Hyponyms of _bullet_ (noun, projectile) |blank bullet
|brass-tipped bullet |double-action bullet |dumdum bullet,dum-dum bullet,dum
dum bullet |rubber bullet |rubber-tipped bullet |silver bullet }}
***** Derived terms
{{col|title=Terms derived from _bullet_
(noun)|en|antibullet|bulletfest|bullethole|bulletize|bulletless|bulletlike|bulletmaker|bulletmaking|bulletwood|bullety|hyperbullet|microbullet|nanobullet|subbullet|ultrabullet|bite
the bullet|bullet money|stray bullet|ghost bullet |bullet-screen game|bullet
ballot|put a band-aid on a bullet wound |bullet catch|bullet
journaling|bullet-shooting crossbow |bullet chess |bullet hole|bullet
vibrator|bulletin |bullet list |Bulletmore |bullet-nose|bullet trade |bullet
point |bulletproof |bullet time |bullet train |bullet with someone's name on
it |dodge a bullet|bullet climb |number one with a bullet |with a bullet
|bullet ant|bullet bra|bullet fee|bullet graph|bullet hell|bullet
journal|bullet loan|bullet tree|bullet vote|bullet voting|bullet
wood|bullet-head|bullet-headed|bullet-pointed|bullet-proof|bumper bullet|get
the bullet|bullet payment|hook-and-bullet|magic bullet|Markowitz
bullet|percussion bullet|picket bullet|plastic bullet|take a bullet|tracer
bullet|long bullets|muck and bullets|sweat bullets}}
***** Translations
[projectile]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] [collective]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chamicuro: [ccc]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Even: [eve]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Inuktitut: [iu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [criminal slang, normally: "olive"]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shor: [cjs]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl]
- Tabasaran: [tab]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Unami: [unm]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[ammunition for a sling]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[informal: round of unfired ammunition]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[banking: large scheduled payment]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[rejection letter]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] To speed, like a bullet.
6. * [en]
7. [en] To make a shot, especially with great speed.
8. [en] To inflict bullet shots upon.
9. * [en]
10. [en] To fire from a job; to dismiss .
11. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2012 | author=Iain King; John Hartson | title=John Hartson's Celtic Dream Team
|passage=Mowbray never had that luxury, he was BULLETED after a run of bad
results just as Kenny Dalglish was at Liverpool last season.}}
**** References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) _The Official Dictionary of Poker (see http://www.poker1.com/mcu/pokerdictionary/mculib_dictionary_info.asp) ._ MGI/Mike Caro University. [978-1880069523]
- [fire, dismiss] [en]
*** Etymology 2
[en] From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun] [en]
1. A young or little bull ; a male calf .
2. * [en ]
3. * [en ]
4. * [en ]
5. * [en ]
***** Synonyms
- [en] [archaic]
***** Coordinate terms
- [en] , [en]
***** Translations
[young or little bull]
[en]
** Danish
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [da], from [da].
*** Pronunciation
- [da]
*** Noun
[da]
1. [da] [en] (a printed symbol, e.g. •, used for marking items in a list) [from 1994]
**** Synonyms
- [da]
** Latin
*** Verb
[la]
1. [la]
** Northern Sami
*** Pronunciation
- [būllet]
*** Verb
[se]
1. [se]