Meaning of 'bull' (Webster Dictionary)
- Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large;
fierce.
- The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male
of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
- One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or
action.
- Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
- A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It
contains the Pleiades.
- One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of
stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
- To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
- A seal. See Bulla.
- A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in
Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a
die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See
Apostolical brief, under Brief.
- A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity,
but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so
called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial
nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
- To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull
railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to
raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
Meaning of 'bull' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a large and strong and heavyset man
Example in sentence:- a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got;
- he was a bull of a man
Meaning (2):
- a serious and ludicrous blunder
Example in sentence:- he made a bad bull of the assignment
Meaning (3):
- obscene words for unacceptable behavior
Example in sentence:- I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk;
- what he said was mostly bull
Meaning (4):
- push or force
Example in sentence:- He bulled through his demands
Meaning (5):
- advance in price
Meaning (6):
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
Example in sentence:- The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it
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