What's the difference between bullock and bully?

Bullock


Definition:

  • (n.) A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.
  • (n.) An ox, steer, or stag.
  • (v. t.) To bully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sequence analysis indicates that bovine lung PGF synthase shows 62% identical plus conservative substitutions compared with human liver aldehyde reductase [Wermuth, B., Omar, A., Forster, A., Francesco, C., Wolf, M., Wartburg, J.P., Bullock, B.
  • (2) Simon Bullock of Friends of the Earth said cuts to onshore wind and solar power subsidies reflected their success.
  • (3) In these bullocks decreases in the concentrations of serum Ig from 12.2 to 8.2 g per l in IgG1 and from 3.8 to 1.7 g per l in IgM were also proved.
  • (4) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
  • (5) I won't dilate too much about the experience of seeing the marbles close up, which is something the ancient Greeks never did, because they were placed high on the Parthenon, but what is moving is the human detail of the sculptures – the snapshots of people turning round to see what's going on, struggling with a bullock that is about to get loose, and men expiring at the hooves of centaurs.
  • (6) The last conversation I ever had with him was about Alan Bullock’s joint life of Hitler and Stalin , which I’d given him.
  • (7) This result was similar to that of Semmel (1965), but contrasted with that of Kirby, Nettlebeck, and Bullock (1978), who found no such difference in vigilance performance when comparing mildly mentally retarded and nonretarded adults.
  • (8) To that one might add a number of current releases and Oscar contenders: Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity , despite its starring role for Sandra Bullock; Lee Daniels' The Butler, about a presidential servant and the civil rights movement; and Captain Phillips , Paul Greengrass's piracy drama, which involves an all-male gang of pirates attacking an all-male shipping crew.
  • (9) In the past decade he has become known as the buff, handsome actor able to genre-jump: he has done comedies (Just Friends, Van Wilder: Party Liaison), horror (The Amityville Horror remake, which is memorable to his fans mostly because it featured Reynolds chopping wood topless), action thrillers (Blade: Trinity) and, in 2009, his breakout romcom The Proposal, in which he starred opposite Sandra Bullock.
  • (10) The only cattle seen occasionally are groups of bullocks being raised together for slaughter.
  • (11) These changes were noted in experimentally infected animals at 1-7 day post infection, its three weeks before antibody anti BHV1 and lasted for 3-9 weeks, while in naturally infected bullocks they appeared at 1-28 day of the experiment and persisted for 4-8 weeks the virus was easy isolated from nasal swabs especially of naturally infected animals.
  • (12) Bullock, who won the best actress Oscar in March for her role in drama The Blind Side, beat Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker to the top spot, according to Forbes magazine .
  • (13) Overall the weight of bruised trim from unfasted bullocks (0.48 kg) was significantly less (P less than 0.01) than from bullocks fasted for 24 h (0.99 kg) or 48 h (1.03 kg).
  • (14) In The Proposal , Sandra Bullock’s inhuman editor leaves female employees shaking, and so emasculates her male secretary she actually asks him to marry her.
  • (15) The recapture data after the first day of marking was significantly delayed for tabanids that fed on fenvalerate-sprayed bullocks.
  • (16) Phospholipids isolated from the plasma of monkeys fed a diet enriched in fish oil were poor substrates for cholesteryl ester (CE) synthesis by the lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) reaction relative to those from animals fed a lard containing diet when the phospholipids were used for the preparation of recombinant particles by cholate dialysis (Parks, J. S., B. C. Bullock, and L. L. Rudel.
  • (17) Bullock describes the British crew, though, as "civilised".
  • (18) Among the big world premieres, Ridley Scott made a major return to form with The Martian , and Sandra Bullock entered the race once again for her wildly appealing performance in the political satire Our Brand is Crisis .
  • (19) AP in serum and bile from calves and bullocks was very heat labile and did not inhibit phenylalanine much.
  • (20) Sandra Bullock agrees: "We had no idea if it would be successful.

Bully


Definition:

  • (n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
  • (n.) A brisk, dashing fellow.
  • (a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
  • (a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
  • (v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.
  • (v. i.) To act as a bully.

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) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (3) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
  • (4) "For so long, management kept us down; they've broken us and bullied us," he said.
  • (5) One hundred days from Rio, Britain’s national cycling team has been thrown into chaos following the sudden resignation of its head, technical director Shane Sutton , as allegations of bullying and discrimination against women and Paralympians accumulated on Wednesday.
  • (6) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
  • (7) How, we might ask, can homophobic bullying be tackled when implicitly sanctioned by the school’s own literature?
  • (8) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (9) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
  • (10) "If I thought he was a bully or if I thought he was homophobic then I would take him off," Cooper told MediaGuardian's Radio Reborn conference in central London.
  • (11) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
  • (12) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
  • (13) More like this: • Five reasons why the Ref is not fit for purpose‬‬‬ • Struggle for top research grades fuels bullying among university staf f • Measuring impact: how Australia and the UK are tackling research assessment Enter the Guardian university awards 2015 and join the higher education network for more comment, analysis and job opportunities, direct to your inbox.
  • (14) In 2007 a fresh-faced MP spent two days at the home of a Muslim family in Birmingham and then wrote boldly of how it wasn’t possible to “bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them”; “you can’t even start to talk about a truly integrated society while people are suffering racist … abuse … on a daily basis”.
  • (15) "We should oppose the practices of the big bullying the small, the strong domineering over the weak and the rich oppressing the poor."
  • (16) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
  • (17) The report detailed several instances of bullying by pupils.
  • (18) The assessment of bullying in schools comes after police figures indicated that young people were the victims of 10% of faith hate crime and 8% of race hate crime between 16 June and 7 July.
  • (19) Earlier Alexander, the most senior Scottish MP in the UK cabinet, rejected claims that ministers in London were bullying Scotland into rejecting independence.
  • (20) Work on The Maze Runner came about, he says, because his director watched Son of Rambow “and knew I had some bully-ish qualities in my acting locker”.

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