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bull (enc)

Bull

Noun1.bull - uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
horn - one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
Bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen - domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"
bullock - young bull
2.bull - a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
adult male, man - an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
3.bull - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"
bunkum, guff, hogwash, buncombe, rot, bunk - unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity - an offensive or indecent word or phrase
4.bull - a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"
blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, bloomer - an embarrassing mistake
5.bull - uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
police officer, policeman, officer - a member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer"
6.bull - an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
investor - someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns
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
7.Bull - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
astrology, star divination - a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon
8.Bull - the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, house - (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
9.bull - the center of a target
target, mark - a reference point to shoot at; "his arrow hit the mark"
midpoint, centre, center - a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
10.bull - a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
decree, fiat, edict, rescript, order - a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
11.bull - mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
Verb1.bull - push or force; "He bulled through his demands"
push, bear on - press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate"
2.bull - try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
investing, investment - the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit
bull - advance in price; "stocks were bulling"
job, speculate - invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"
3.bull - talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
dissemble, feign, pretend, sham, affect - make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
4.bull - advance in price; "stocks were bulling"
go up, rise, climb - increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
bull - try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

 

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