Dictionary entry details
• BULL (noun)
Meaning:
Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("bull" is a kind of...):
Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)
Meronyms (parts of "bull"):
horn (one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bull"):
bullock (young bull)
Meaning:
A large and strong and heavyset man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bruiser; strapper; bull; Samson
Context examples:
he was a bull of a man / a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got
Hypernyms ("bull" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Meaning:
Obscene words for unacceptable behavior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
bullshit; Irish bull; dogshit; horseshit; shit; crap; bull
Context examples:
I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk / what he said was mostly bull
Hypernyms ("bull" is a kind of...):
buncombe; bunk; bunkum; guff; hogwash; rot (unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements))
Domain usage:
dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)
Meaning:
A serious and ludicrous blunder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
he made a bad bull of the assignment
Hypernyms ("bull" is a kind of...):
bloomer; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; botch; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; pratfall (an embarrassing mistake)
Meaning:
Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
cop; fuzz; copper; pig; bull
Hypernyms ("bull" is a kind of...):
officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Meaning:
An investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bull" is a kind of...):
investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)
Antonym:
bear (an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price)
Meaning:
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Taurus; Bull
Hypernyms ("Bull" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Domain category:
astrology; star divination (a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon)
Meaning:
The second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Taurus the Bull; Taurus; Bull
Instance hypernyms:
house; mansion; planetary house; sign; sign of the zodiac; star sign ((astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided)
Meaning:
The center of a target
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
bull's eye; bull
Hypernyms ("bull" is a kind of...):
center; centre; midpoint (a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure)
Holonyms ("bull" is a part of...):
mark; target (a reference point to shoot at)
Meaning:
A formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
papal bull; bull
Hypernyms ("bull" is a kind of...):
decree; edict; fiat; order; rescript (a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge))
Meaning:
Mature male of various mammals of which the female is called 'cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("bull" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
• BULL (verb)
Meaning:
Push or force
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
bull; bull through
Context example:
He bulled through his demands
Hypernyms (to "bull" is one way to...):
bear on; push (press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "bull" is one way to...):
job; speculate (invest at a risk)
Domain category:
investing; investment (the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Talk through one's hat
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
bullshit; bull; fake
Context example:
The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it
Hypernyms (to "bull" is one way to...):
affect; dissemble; feign; pretend; sham (make believe with the intent to deceive)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
Meaning:
Advance in price
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
stocks were bulling
Hypernyms (to "bull" is one way to...):
climb; go up; rise (increase in value or to a higher point)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
