bullet

metak

Engleski

Etymology 1

Three bullets (2)

From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and Francuski boulet.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /ˈbʊl.ɪt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rime: -ʊlɪt

Noun

bullet (plural bullets)

1. A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.

   Sinonims: (slang) cap, (slang) pill, (slang) slug

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.
   • Šablon:RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine
4. (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.

   Sinonim: bullet point

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, volume 2-3, strana 135:

9. (figurative) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
   • 2011 januar 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC‎^[1]:

10. (in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).

    bullet train; bullet chess

11. (chess, Internet) chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.)
    • 2020 avgust 21, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Carlsen fights back from brink to overcome Nakamura in 38-game epic”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

    • 2021 novembar 24, Tyler Cowen, “Chess Is an Esport Now. Get Used to It.”, in The Washington Post‎^[3]:

    • 2022 jul 27, Srinivasa Ramanujam, “'Feels like a festival': Praggnanandhaa on Chess Olympiad and meeting Rajinikanth”, in The Hindu‎^[4]:

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

16. (obsolete) A cannonball.
    • 1592, w:John Stow, The Annales of England:

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

    • 2013, Hallee Bridgeman, A Melody for James:

Hyponyms

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

Terms derived from bullet (noun)

• bite the bullet
• bullet ant
• bullet bra
• bullet catch
• bullet chess
• bullet fee
• bullet graph
• bullet-head
• bullet-headed
• bullet hell
• bullet hole
• bulletin
• bullet journal
• bullet list
• bullet loan
• Bulletmore
• bullet-nose
• bullet point
• bullet-pointed
• bulletproof
• bullet-proof
• bullet time
• bullet train
• bullet tree
• bullet vote
• bullet voting
• bullet with someone's name on it
• bullet wood
• bumper bullet
• dodge a bullet
• get the bullet
• hook-and-bullet
• long bullets
• magic bullet
• Markowitz bullet
• muck and bullets
• number one with a bullet
• percussion bullet
• picket bullet
• plastic bullet
• sweat bullets
• take a bullet
• tracer bullet
• with a bullet

 

Translations

projectile

• Abkhaz: ahы (āxə)
• Afrikaans: koeël
• Albanian: plumb (sq) f
• Amharic: ጥይት (ṭəyt)
• Arabic: رَصَاصَة‎ f (raṣāṣa), رَصَاص‎ m (raṣāṣ) (collective)
• Armenian: գնդակ (hy) (gndak)
• Aromanian: pljiumbu, plumbu
• Assamese: গুলী (guli)
• Asturian: bala (ast) f
• Avar: gulla (gulla)
• Azerbaijani: güllə (az), qurşun, qurğuşun (az)
• Belarusian: kúlя f (kúlja)
• Bengali: গুলি (bn) (guli), বুলেট (buleṭ)
• Breton: boled (br) m
• Bulgarian: kuršúm m (kuršúm)
• Burmese: ကျည် (my) (kyany), ကျည်ဖူး (my) (kyanyhpu:), ယမ်းတောင့် (my) (yam:taung.)
• Catalan: bala (ca) f, projectil (ca) m
• Chamicuro: wala
• Chechen: daьndarg (dändarg)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 子彈／子弹 (zi² daan^6-2)

  Dungan: čёnzыr, pozыr

  Mandarin: 子彈／子弹 (zh) (zǐdàn), 槍子／枪子 (zh) (qiāngzǐ), 槍子兒／枪子儿 (zh) (qiāngzǐr)

• Czech: kulka (cs) f
• Danish: kugle (da) c, projektil (da) n
• Dutch: kogel (nl) m
• Esperanto: kuglo
• Estonian: kuul (et)
• Even: nюr (ņur)
• Faroese: kúla f, skot n
• Finnish: luoti (fi), kuula (fi)
• French: balle (fr) f, projectile (fr) m
• Galician: bala f, proxectil m
• Georgian: ტყვია (ṭq̇via)
• German: Kugel (de) f, Ball (de) m, Projektil (de) n, Flugkörper (de) m
• Greek: σφαίρα (el) f (sfaíra)
• Gujarati: ગોળી (goḷī)
• Haitian Creole: bal
• Hawaiian: pōkā, pōkā pū
• Hebrew: כַּדּוּר‎ (he) m (kadúr)
• Hindi: गोली (hi) f (golī)
• Hungarian: lövedék (hu), golyó (hu)
• Icelandic: byssukúla (is) f, kúla (is) f, skot (is) n
• Indonesian: peluru (id)
• Inuktitut: ᓱᓇᒐᖅ (sonacaq)
• Irish: piléar m
• Italian: proiettile (it) m
• Japanese: 弾丸 (ja) (だんがん, dangan), 弾 (ja) (たま, tama), 銃弾 (ja) (じゅうだん, jūdan)
• Javanese: ꦥ꧀ꦭꦸꦫꦸ (pluru)
• Kalmyk: sumn (sumn)
• Kannada: ಗುಂಡು (kn) (guṇḍu)
• Kazakh: oқ (oq)
• Khmer: គ្រាប់កាំភ្លើង (krŏəpkampləəng)
• Korean: 탄알 (ko) (tanal), 총알 (chong'al)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گولە‎ (ckb) (gule)

  Northern Kurdish: gulle (ku) f, fîşek (ku) f, telqe (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: ok (ky) (ok)
• Lao: ກະສຸນ (lo) (ka sun)
• Latin: glans f
• Latvian: lode f
• Lithuanian: kulka f
• Macedonian: kuršum m (kuršum), zrno n (zrno), fišek m (fišek)
• Malay: pelor, peluru (ms), bullet
• Malayalam: വെടിയുണ്ട (ml) (veṭiyuṇṭa)
• Maltese: balla
• Manx: bullad
• Maori: matā, pokepoke
• Marathi: गोळी f (goḷī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: sum (mn) (sum)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu)

• Nahuatl: temitl
• Navajo: kʼaaʼ
• Nepali: गोली (ne) (golī)
• Ngazidja Comorian: risasi
• Norman: balle f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kule (no) m or f

• Occitan: bala (oc) f, projectil (oc) m
• Ossetian: nӕmыg (næmyg)
• Ottoman Turkish: قورشون‎ (kurşun), مرمی‎ (mermi)
• Pashto: ګولۍ‎ f (golᶕy)
• Persian: گلوله‎ (fa) (golule)
• Polish: pocisk (pl) m, kula (pl) f
• Portuguese: bala (pt) f, projéctil (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਗੋਲੀ f (golī)
• Romanian: glonț (ro) n, glonte (ro) n, alică (ro) f
• Russian: púlя (ru) f (púlja), snarя́d (ru) m (snarjád)
• Scottish Gaelic: peilear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: metak m, tane n

  Roman: metak (sh) m, tane (sh) n

• Shor: oқ (oq)
• Sicilian: badda (scn) f
• Slovak: guľka f
• Slovene: krogla (sl) f
• Spanish: bala (es) f, proyectil (es) m
• Swahili: risasi (sw)
• Swedish: kula (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠟ꠆ꠟꠤ (gulli)
• Tabasaran: gюlle (gjulle)
• Tajik: gulӯla (tg) (gulüla), tir (tg) (tir)
• Tamil: தோட்டா (ta) (tōṭṭā)
• Telugu: తూటా (te) (tūṭā)
• Thai: กระสุน (th)
• Tibetan: མདེའུ (mde'u)
• Tigrinya: ዓረር (ʿarär)
• Turkish: mermi (tr), kurşun (tr)
• Turkmen: seçme
• Ukrainian: kúlя f (kúlja)
• Urdu: گولی‎ f (golī)
• Uyghur: ئوق‎ (oq)
• Uzbek: oʻq (uz)
• Vietnamese: đạn (vi)
• Volapük: glöb (vo)
• Welsh: bwled (cy) f
• West Frisian: kûgel
• Yiddish: קויל‎ f (koyl)

ammunition for a sling

• Finnish: ammus (fi)

typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle

• Czech: odrážka f
• Danish: bullet c, punkttegn n
• Esperanto: bulmarko
• Finnish: luettelopallo, pallura, luetelmamerkki
• French: puce (fr) m
• German: Aufzählungszeichen n
• Greek: βούλα (el) f (voúla)
• Hungarian: díszpont
• Irish: urchar m
• Japanese: ビュレット (byuretto)
• Latvian: punkts m
• Maltese: dott
• Russian: márker spíska m (márker spíska), búllit (ru) m (búllit)
• Spanish: topo (es) m, bolo (es) m

informal: round of unfired ammunition

• Finnish: kuti (fi), pati (fi)
• Russian: patrón (ru) m (patrón)

banking: large scheduled payment

• Finnish: kertamaksu (fi), kertaerä (fi)

rejection letter

• Finnish: bumerangi (fi)

Verb

bullet

1. (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
   • 2000, Merriam-Webster's collegiate encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster, Inc, strana x:

   • 2004, Richard P. Pohanish, HazMat data: for first response, transportation, storage, and security, strana x:

   • 2008, Deanna Davis, The law of attraction in action, strana 42:

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 978-1880069523

Etymology 2

From bull +‎ -let.

Noun

bullet (plural bullets) (rare)

1. A young or little bull; a male calf.
   • 1886, Hamilton Literary Magazine, Clippings, strana 110:

   • 1937, Quarterly Bulletin: The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, strana 17:

   • 1959, C. B. Kitchens, X-syrps from the Trickem News Chronic, strana 5:

   • 2013 novembar 20, Gorio, “Re: Milk, redefined. What do you think about this????”, in rec.food.cooking, Usenet, message-ID <Gorio.cd28428.923639@foodbanter.com>:

Synonyms

• bullock (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• cowlet, cowling

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /bulət/, [ˈb̥uləd̥]

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

Latinski

Verb

bullet

1. treće lice jednine prezenta aktiva subjunctive of bullō

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) MFA^(ključ): /ˈpuːlleh(t)/

Verb

būllet

1. inflection of buollit:
   1. treće lice množine prezenta indikativa
   2. drugo lice jednine past indikativa
   3. drugo lice množine imperativa