bull

See also: Bull and Bull.

bull - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbʊl/

Noun

bull (countable and uncountable, plural bulls)

  1. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
    1. Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
    2. (loosely) Any bovine of an aggressive or long-horned breed regardless of age and sex.
  2. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
  3. Any adult male bovine.
  4. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
  5. A large, strong man.
  6. (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
  7. (slang) A policeman.
    1. (US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
  8. (LGBT, slang) An elderly lesbian.
  9. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
  10. (UK) Clipping of bullseye.
    1. (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
  11. (Philadelphia, slang) A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
  12. (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
  13. A man who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.
  14. (obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
  15. (slang, uncountable) Beef.

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (finance: investor who sells in anticipation of a fall in prices): bear

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Translations

  • Danish: haussespekulant ?, haussist ?
  • Finnish: härkä (fi)
  • German: Bulle (de) m
  • Irish: bulla m
  • Italian: toro (it) m, rialzista (it) m
  • Macedonian: берзански шпекула́нт m (berzanski špekulánt)
  • Russian: бык (ru) m (byk)
  • Swedish: haussespekulant c

Adjective

bull (not comparable)

  1. Large and strong, like a bull.
  2. (of large mammals) Adult male.
  3. (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
  4. Stupid.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Danish: stor og stærk
  • German: Bullen-, bullen-
  • Interlingua: grosse
  • Portuguese: grande (pt) m

Verb

bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)

  1. (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
    • He bulled his way in.
  2. (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
  3. (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).
  4. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
    • to bull railroad bonds
  5. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.
    • to bull the market

Derived terms

(terms derived from the adj., noun, or verb bull (etymology 1)):

Translations


Noun

bull (plural bulls)

  1. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
  2. A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.

Translations

Verb

bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)

  1. (dated, 17th century) to publish in a Papal bull

Noun

bull (uncountable)

  1. A lie.
  2. (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.

Synonyms

  • (nonsense): See also nonsense

Translations

Verb

bull (third-person singular simple present bulls, present participle bulling, simple past and past participle bulled)

  1. To mock; to cheat.
  2. (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
  3. (UK, military) To polish boots to a high shine.

Noun

bull (plural bulls)

  1. (obsolete) A bubble.

bull - Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈbuʎ/
  • Homophone: vull

Noun

bull m (plural bulls)

  1. boiling
  2. effervescence

Verb

bull

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of bullir
  2. second-person singular imperative form of bullir

Noun

bull m (plural bulls)

  1. A type of pork sausage.

bull - Cimbrian

Adverb

bull (comparative péssor, superlative dar péste)

  1. (Sette Comuni) well
    • Iime bull hölfasto, miar net, sbaar?He's helping you well, but not me, right?

bull - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bul/, /byl/

Noun

bull m (plural bulls)

  1. (construction) bulldozer

Synonyms

bull - Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pʏtl/

Noun

bull n (genitive singular bulls, no plural)

  1. nonsense, gibberish

Declension

n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative bull bullið
accusative bull bullið
dative bulli bullinu
genitive bulls bullsins

Synonyms

  • bulla (to talk nonsense, to boil)
Meaning and Definition of bull
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