Word Finder - bullet

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

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An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.

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Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.

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A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, (•), often used in lieu of numbers for marking items in a list. (see also bulleted)

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A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.

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A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

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John's not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday.

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One year of prison time

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An ace (the playing card).

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Anything that is projected extremely fast.

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(in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).

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bullet chess

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A plumb or sinker.

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(particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.

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A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.

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A small ball.

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A cannonball.

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The fetlock of a horse.

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To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.

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To speed, like a bullet.

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Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.

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To make a shot, especially with great speed.

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He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.

A bullet had pierced his skull.

He was shot dead by a musket bullet in the retreat.

Berthelot, who examined the skull, found no trace of injury by a bullet; and on the whole there is no reason to doubt the verdict of the original inquiry at Ermenonville.

But a stray bullet struck the king, and the Abyssinians decided to retire.

The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory!

Startled, Bianca turned to face the doorway, recognizing the petite blonde woman who saved her from Dusty's bullet in Talon's garage.

He obeyed reluctantly, and on the 14th of June 1835 was wounded by a musket bullet in the calf of the leg.

As he stood on the quarter-deck of the "Trinity" a cannon close by was exploded by a Swedish bullet, and splinters of wood and metal wounded the king in thirteen places, blinding one eye and flinging him to the deck.

Thus we feel it in its motion as wind, and observe the dynamical effects of this motion in the quiver of the leaf or the motion of a sailing ship. It offers resistance to the passage of bodies through it, destroying their motion and transforming their energy - as is betrayed to our hearing in the whiz of the rifle bullet, to our sight in the flash of the meteor.

He was rather seriously wounded by the bullet from the assassin's pistol.

The bullet had caught him full in the chest, driving him backward into the scooped out grotto where his uncle had lain for more than half a century.

I gotta bite the bullet and go see Miss Worthington, with my hat in hand, and explain how I misplaced that picture she kindly lent me.

The bullet was not extracted from Baird's wound until his release.

He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.

Thus the Tagliche Rundschau observed, in allusion to Erzberger's personal appearance, " he may be as round as a bullet, but he is not bullet-proof."

There is no single magic bullet, BBSRC must work with others on a number of fronts.

The Rocket Pak gives you a larger egg for insertion, powerful internal pleasure to run along side a small micro vibrating bullet.

The heavy, blunt-nosed lead bullet, nearly half an inch in diameter, had a muzzle velocity of 600ft per second.

Mostly in bullet points, it gets to the heart of the issue in a few words.

The inner two were made of stout trees, lined with flax making them almost bullet proof.

This brave, devoted daughter was shot by a sniper bullet in her parents ' yard.

The downside was someone always managed to hit Jackson with a bullet or two or drive a knife into him, and break the tip off in a bone.

Unless his body floats in with a bullet hole in the head or he gets pinched for speeding in Vegas, it's going down as an accident in my report.

Moseley was in Australia with the British Association in 1914 when the World War broke out; he returned to England, obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers, and was killed by a Turkish bullet on the Gallipoli peninsula on Aug.

Just as the Confederate troops reached the Union line Hancock was struck in the groin by a bullet, but continued in command until the repulse of the attack, and as he was at last borne off the field earnestly recommended Meade to make a general attack on the beaten Confederates.

It was the bullet of a Guardian, for only carbon fiber bullets would kill the vamps in the mortal world.

So we can only commiserate with RC Clubman Rob, whose 1957 Royal Enfield Bullet was stolen over the Bank Holiday.

We conclude that coating your bullet with molybdenum disulfide does not accomplish a great deal.

The bullet is almost intact, only slightly flattened, with a little cone of lead missing from the rear end.

In field tests we found that the Bullet line clip worked faultlessly due to its no fuss simplistic design.

He was a Scottish professional golfer in the 19th century but he predicted bullet trains, driverless golf carts, televisions and digital watches.

A defense lawyer was asking him why no bullets or bullet holes had been found in the room.

No, a bullet in the back of the head is the only humane thing to do.

The first is a Purdey finished in 1852 in half inch bore with two groove rifling for the winged sugar loaf bullet.

The views are always dramatic with Bullet forming a wall on the inside and other rocks providing a wild underwater seascape.

Dr. Thomas Noguchi, Los Angeles coroner, said the senator died from damage to the brain caused by a.22 caliber bullet.

In the quiet, one-room shanty, the clatter of metal on metal sounded like freight cars coupling as she chambered a bullet.

I counted 22 bullet holes and one large hole where a shell splinter had entered, finishing in the galley.

Earlier this year the Alaskan pipeline network was almost brought to a complete standstill by a stray bullet from a hunting rifle.

Valance was hit again, in the left thigh by a bullet that broke his hip bone.

If you triple the weight of your bullet then you'll triple the amount of energy (if the speed is the same ).

The body armor of the new uniforms will absorb the shock of a bullet much better than current bulletproof vests.

Surely President Bush could not have been wearing a bullet proof vest under his jacket, could he?

The tool kit includes a 50mm (2 inch) long mini bullet vibrator with five soft, rigid, jelly sleeves.

With a range of up to 50 feet, this extra large bullet vibrator is about the best hands free fun you can get!

But the option of using the text as bullet points with audio voice-over needs to be made more explicit in the induction.

They include an old woman with a bullet wound -- still clutching a white flag when aid workers found her.

According to the BBC reporter, the victims all had single bullet wounds in the back of the head or neck.

On the 7th of June a bullet wound put Charles hors de combat, whereupon Peter threw the greater part of his forces over the river Vorskla, which separated the two armies (June 19-25).

The top of its head was carved into a crown and the Wizard's bullet had struck it exactly in the left eye, which was a hard wooden knot.