bullet

метак

Енглески

Etymology 1

Three bullets (2)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /ˈbʊl.ɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Риме: -ʊlɪt

Noun

bullet (plural bullets)

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

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

   Синоним: 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, 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. (figurative) Anything that is projected extremely fast.

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.)

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.

16. (obsolete) A cannonball.

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.

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: ахы (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: гулла (gulla)
• Azerbaijani: güllə (az), qurşun, qurğuşun (az)
• Belarusian: ку́ля f (kúlja)
• Bengali: গুলি (bn) (guli), বুলেট (buleṭ)
• Breton: boled (br) m
• Bulgarian: куршу́м m (kuršúm)
• Burmese: ကျည် (my) (kyany), ကျည်ဖူး (my) (kyanyhpu:), ယမ်းတောင့် (my) (yam:taung.)
• Catalan: bala (ca) f, projectil (ca) m
• Chamicuro: wala
• Chechen: даьндарг (dändarg)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 子彈／子弹 (zi² daan^6-2)

  Dungan: чёнзыр, позыр

  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: нюр (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: сумн (sumn)
• Kannada: ಗುಂಡು (kn) (guṇḍu)
• Kazakh: оқ (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: ок (ky) (ok)
• Lao: ກະສຸນ (lo) (ka sun)
• Latin: glans f
• Latvian: lode f
• Lithuanian: kulka f
• Macedonian: куршум m (kuršum), зрно n (zrno), фишек m (fišek)
• Malay: pelor, peluru (ms), bullet
• Malayalam: വെടിയുണ്ട (ml) (veṭiyuṇṭa)
• Maltese: balla
• Manx: bullad
• Maori: matā, pokepoke
• Marathi: गोळी f (goḷī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сум (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: нӕмыг (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: пу́ля (ru) f (púlja), снаря́д (ru) m (snarjád)
• Scottish Gaelic: peilear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: метак m, тане n

  Roman: metak (sh) m, tane (sh) n

• Shor: оқ (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: гюлле (gjulle)
• Tajik: гулӯла (tg) (gulüla), тир (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: ку́ля 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: ма́ркер спи́ска m (márker spíska), бу́ллит (ru) m (búllit)
• Spanish: topo (es) m, bolo (es) m

informal: round of unfired ammunition

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

banking: large scheduled payment

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

rejection letter

• Finnish: bumerangi (fi)

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.
   • 2000, Merriam-Webster's collegiate encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster, Inc, page x:

     For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we have bulleted "World Wide Web"

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

     The author has bulleted this section to make it easier to read and included important notes and warnings.

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

     I had mind-mapped everything from my business to my baby girl's needs and had bulleted my talking points, brownie points, and breaking points for just about every life area

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.

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

     YES — imagine, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets^[sic] take the cow and bull side of the question first. REMEMBER — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets and bullets and baking a bale of hay.

Synonyms

• bullock (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• cowlet, cowling

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Енглески bullet, from Middle French [Терм?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /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

Латински

Verb

bullet

1. треће лице једнине презента актива subjunctive of bullō

Northern Sami

Verb

būllet

1. inflection of buollit:
   1. треће лице множине презента индикатива
   2. друго лице једнине past индикатива
   3. друго лице множине императива