(n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.
(n.) A cannon ball.
(n.) The fetlock of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
(2) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(3) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
(4) "Every bullet that killed those people was a bullet in the heart of all of us," she said.
(5) Sadly, the bullet will not only kill off Greece’s future in Europe.
(6) In the case presented, this aided investigators in determining how many bullets actually struck the victim.
(7) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(8) When the Washington Post reports a boom in bullet-proof backpacks for children, it is not a good time to be a resident of a place colloquially known as The Arms.
(9) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(10) Fielding said: "He [Stewart] mentioned that on the day before the execution, when Allen was visited by his wife for the last time, they were separated by a piece of what was supposed to be bullet-proofed glass.
(11) He fired four bullets through a lavatory door, killing Steenkamp, who was in the cubicle inside the athlete's house in an upmarket housing complex in the capital Pretoria.
(12) Early bullet removal did not appear to be a significant factor in the prevention of infection.
(13) Another man who is not moving fast enough is shot with a rubber bullet.
(14) "There is no debate over the conclusion that Abir was injured by a rubber bullet shot by border guards, which in turn leads to the conclusion that the shooting of Abir occurred out of negligence, or in violation of the rules of engagement," said Judge Orit Efal-Gabai.
(15) The case of a patient with a hepatic vein bullet embolus complicating a left ventricular gunshot injury is described.
(16) He said the bullet passed through the right-hand upper part of his chest and exited through his shoulder.
(17) Since 2010, he has worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the wing of the US defense department devoted to funding and developing new technologies, from a self-steering bullet called Exacto to the packet-switching system, Arpanet, that became the internet.
(18) The location of the bullet and the type of pain that subsequently developed were not correlated with the initial decision to surgically remove the bullet.
(19) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(20) The study showed surprising results: in the majority of cases, the helmet does not protect the wearer, but instead intensifies the damage caused by the bullet.
Cullet
Definition:
(v. t.) Broken glass for remelting.
(n.) A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).
Example Sentences:
(1) A new technique is described of column cultivation of cells immobilized on Sial glass cullet.