(n.) The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
(n.) One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
(n.) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
(n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
(n.) 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.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
(v. i.) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) A seal. See Bulla.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(2) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(3) This procedure can quickly provide acrosome-reacted bull sperm for use with various in vitro fertilization procedures and for assessment of male fertility.
(4) The total glutathione peroxidase activity was unrelated to studied variables of bull semen.
(5) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(6) Two ejaculates were harvested by electroejaculation on each of 3 d per week for 14 wk from 14, 12- to 24-mo-old Holstein bulls.
(7) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
(8) Twenty-three cases (72%) were found in young bulls aged 18 months or less.
(9) Six Holstein (light-muscled type) and six Belgian Blue bulls (double-muscled type) were fed a finishing diet.
(10) The bull's eye method showed redistribution in 5 of 19 patients (26%) in Group B, 5 of 19 (26%) with % delta Th < or = 0 and 2 of 9 (22%) with IVSE < or = 0.
(11) Basic peptides (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, bull seminal isoinhibitors of trypsin, arginine vasopressin and adamantylamide-alanylisoglutamine) were analysed with a cationic ITP system at acidic pH.
(12) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
(13) Out of the 2550 ejaculates taken from 42 breeding bulls within 12 months, 685, i.e.
(14) Group A Villarreal, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Zurich, Apollon Limassol Group B FC Copenhagen, Brugge, Torino, HJK Helsinki Group C Tottenham Hotspur , Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade, Asteras Tripoli Group D Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic , Dinamo Zagreb, FC Astra Group E PSV, Panathinaikos, Estoril Praia, Dynamo Moscow Group F Internazionale, Dnipro, St Etienne, FK Karabakh Group G Sevilla, Standard Liège, Feyenoord, Rijeka Group H Lille, Wolfsburg, Everton , Krasnodar Group I Napoli, Sparta Prague, Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava Group J Dynamo Kyiv, Steaua Bucharest, Rio Ave, AaB Group K Fiorentina, PAOK, Guingamp, Dinamo Minsk Group L Metalist Kharkiv, Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw, Lokeren
(15) Single atrial myocytes were enzymatically isolated from the bull-frog as previously described (Hume & Giles, 1981), and patch-clamp techniques were used in an attempt to identify and separate two inwardly rectifying K+ channels in this tissue.
(16) We wish Thierry all the best for his future.” New England Revolution ended the Red Bulls’ playoff run on Saturday , and Henry said he had decided not to return for another season.
(17) Acinar cells, which are seromucous in nature, contain secretory granules that often contain a perfect "bull's eye" inclusion (or some variant of this configuration) suspended in a dense matrix.
(18) Five of the bulls were used in homospermic insemination studies.
(19) Among Hereford bulls, body weights were similar (P greater than .10) in all control and relocated bulls by the end of the study, except that MH bulls moved to TX had lower body weights (P less than .01).
(20) Twenty bulls were inoculated with bluetongue virus (BTV) to study the frequency, duration and pathogenesis of seminal shedding of the virus.
Bullshit
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
(2) It’s bullshit, I was on official visits, working at the US embassy.
(3) "We don't really want the bullshit and optimistic stuff that Michael has written ..." • Phil Jones, UAE, to Jonathan Overpeck, Arizona University, 8 February 2008 (email 3062) Jones is referring to new research by Michael Schultz of the University of Bremen – not, as many at first assumed, Michael Mann.
(4) We can’t just sit back, fold our arms and allow this bullshit to continue going on.” Nigerian historian Max Siollun believes the Biafra civil war, which left more than 1 million dead but did not directly affect some parts of the country, fostered a reluctance to document conflict.
(5) It doesn’t matter that he thinks he is.” ‘His populism is bullshit’ In a political landscape often shaped by the tweets of a twitchy-fingered president, the Democrats must find a message that resonates.
(6) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
(7) As for the argument that they're being removed to protect them, that's just bullshit."
(8) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
(9) It knows bullshit when it sees it, soon tires of the same old same old and hungers for something new all the time.
(10) It doesn’t just expose the unresolved issues from Ferguson or Staten Island from last year; it exposes the bullshit of how black people are still fighting for issues as basic as the right to vote .
(11) This discount factor is probably more resonant with progressive voters than conservative voters – but bear in mind the budget period has been incredibly damaging for Abbott in what I’ll crudely term the “I call bullshit” frame.
(12) That is the happeningthing, not whatever bullshit the papers tell us.
(13) The creepiest feature is a daily birthday cartoon starring some kiddywink from the viewing audience: parents upload a photo of their baby, whose head then appears on an animated body, taking part in some bullshit adventure about a missing cake.
(14) Sometimes its initiatives look to me like self-serving bullshit.
(15) Enough with bullshit like McDonald’s slapping MLK’s face on their predatory and poverty creating labor practices.
(16) But Facebook players don't put up with that bullshit."
(17) "This 10% figure is bullshit," said one camper, who did not wish to be named but said he was from Birmingham.
(18) There is a case to be made against Trump that his populism is bullshit,” Favreau said, citing the nomination of billionaires and former Goldman Sachs executives to cabinet positions, which will be the wealthiest in US history, and moves to unravel the Dodd-Frank reform in a boon to Wall Street.
(19) I am happy to ramble on about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle, but veggie dogs are some real bullshit “But Madeleine,” you say, “hot dogs are disgusting!
(20) December 16, 2014 Moral of the story: If it looks like bullshit, it probably is.