What's the difference between bull and full?

Bull


Definition:

  • (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.

Full


Definition:

  • (Compar.) Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.
  • (Compar.) Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.
  • (Compar.) Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.
  • (Compar.) Sated; surfeited.
  • (Compar.) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
  • (Compar.) Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project.
  • (Compar.) Filled with emotions.
  • (Compar.) Impregnated; made pregnant.
  • (n.) Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
  • (adv.) Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
  • (v. i.) To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.
  • (n.) To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.
  • (v. i.) To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
  • (3) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
  • (4) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
  • (5) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
  • (6) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (7) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
  • (8) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (9) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (10) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
  • (11) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
  • (12) Full activity could be restored by addition of nanogram amounts of endotoxin or of FCS before assay.
  • (13) It was not possible to offer all very low birthweight infants full intensive care; to make this possible, it was calculated that resources would have to increase by 26%.
  • (14) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
  • (15) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (16) In granulosa cells containing full aromatase activity, treatment with cortisol and dexamethasone did not inhibit aromatization of androstenedione to estrogens whereas two known aromatase inhibitors (dihydrotestosterone and 4-androstene-3, 6, 17-trione) were effective.
  • (17) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
  • (18) When the transcriptional activity of these proteins was examined it was found that carboxyl-truncated Myb is more effective as a transcriptional activator than full-length or amino-truncated Myb.
  • (19) The peptides, which were synthesized using a FMOC solid phase procedure and purified by HPLC, consisted of residues 6-25 from the putative aqueous domain, residues 22-35, which overlaps the putative aqueous and transmembrane domains, and residues 1-38 and 1-40 representing nearly the full length of beta-AP.
  • (20) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .