What's the difference between bull and minotaur?

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.

Minotaur


Definition:

  • (n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his recent book The Global Minotaur , Varoufakis claims that the notion of a surplus recycling mechanism is simple in theory and revolutionary in its implications.
  • (2) An Air Force Minotaur V rocket provided the ride from Nasa's Wallops flight facility.
  • (3) Picasso portrays himself in the 30s as the minotaur, the monster in the labyrinth.
  • (4) Ticket prices too, have changed – for most shows they climb into three figures, but for operas such as the recent revival of Birtwistle's The Minotaur , which sold out, prices ranged from £3 to £65, and the same is true of next week's UK premiere of George Benjamin's Written on Skin .
  • (5) Then Theseus arrived, posing as a victim but on a mission to slay the Minotaur.
  • (6) The Ladee spacecraft, which is charged with studying the lunar atmosphere and dust, soared aboard an unmanned Minotaur rocket a little before midnight.
  • (7) According to legend, Theseus once slew the Minotaur in the ruins next door, and should the truth out itself, the Bayer family perhaps fear a repeat.
  • (8) Shamefully few new operas are staged at Covent Garden, but two works it commissioned were winners: Thomas Adès's The Tempest in 2004; and Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur, premiered last year.
  • (9) The idea of a vengeful state that sends young people to be slaughtered came from Theseus and the Minotaur, while the games themselves are modelled on the gladiatorial contests of ancient Rome.
  • (10) They are closing the gates that should be open.” Alan Gibbons, one of the march’s organisers and the author of Shadow of the Minotaur and other children’s books, said: “Libraries are places of learning and opportunity.
  • (11) Yet the opposite position on the sexualised culture – that nothing's changed, that porn is still a minority product that you need the nuts of a minotaur to get your hands on – that is not true either.
  • (12) Nominations in the opera categories are shared between the Royal Opera and the English National Opera, with Covent Garden's Don Carlo and The Minotaur competing in the best new opera category against the Coliseum's Partenope and I Pagliacci.
  • (13) Nasa chose Wallops for Ladee because of the Minotaur V rocket, comprised of converted intercontinental ballistic missile motors belonging to the Air Force.

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