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BULLET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
Example:
he showed batters nothing but smoke
Synonyms:
bullet; fastball; heater; hummer; smoke
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bullet" is a kind of...):
delivery; pitch ((baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bullet"):
slider (a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A projectile that is fired from a gun
Synonyms:
bullet; slug
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bullet" is a kind of...):
missile; projectile (a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bullet"):
dumdum; dumdum bullet (a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound)
full metal jacket (a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper))
rifle ball (a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape)
rubber bullet (a bullet made of hard rubber; designed for use in crowd control)
Holonyms ("bullet" is a part of...):
cartridge (ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A high-speed passenger train
Synonyms:
bullet; bullet train
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bullet" is a kind of...):
passenger train (a train that carries passengers)
Context examples:
Two of their guards bounded after them and fell to two bullets from Lord John.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
As they closed Jim caught his opponent’s bullet head under his arm for an instant, and put a couple of half-arm blows in; but the prize-fighter pulled him over by his weight, and the two fell panting side by side upon the ground.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the word 'telegraph', Mrs. March snatched it, read the two lines it contained, and dropped back into her chair as white as if the little paper had sent a bullet to her heart.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
One of those big bats that they call vampires had got at her in the night, and what with his gorge and the vein left open, there wasn't enough blood in her to let her stand up, and I had to put a bullet through her as she lay.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Next morning I had the pleasure of encountering him; left a bullet in one of his poor etiolated arms, feeble as the wing of a chicken in the pip, and then thought I had done with the whole crew.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I had remained indoors all day, for the weather had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and the jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two have been fired and two wounds inflicted, so that each bullet can be accounted for.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Several bullets struck the log-house, but not one entered; and as the smoke cleared away and vanished, the stockade and the woods around it looked as quiet and empty as before.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
At first their bullets zipped harmlessly along the surface of the water on either side the boat; but, as the men continued to pull lustily, they struck closer and closer.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
