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bullet

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noun

a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.

a cartridge.

a small ball.

Printing. a heavy dot for marking paragraphs or otherwise calling attention to or itemizing particular sections of text, especially in display advertising.

Cards. an ace.

verb (used without object)

to move swiftly.

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Idiom

bite the bullet, to force oneself to perform a painful, difficult task or to endure an unpleasant situation: We'll just have to bite the bullet and pay higher taxes.

Origin:
1550–60; < Middle French boullette, equivalent to boulle ball (see bowl²) + -ette -ette

Related forms

bul·let·less, adjective

bul·let·like, adjective

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Example Sentences

Every day, the papers are full of victims, bodies lying out in grotesque poses with bullet wounds all about.

She should also have bullet points under relevant positions that highlight where and how she's used the skills.

How he took the bullet that killed him was disputed-in crossfire, the confusion of battle, or in what amounted to an execution.

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Every day, the papers are full of victims, bodies lying out in grotesque poses with bullet wounds all about.

She should also have bullet points under relevant positions that highlight where and how she's used the skills.

How he took the bullet that killed him was disputed-in crossfire, the confusion of battle, or in what amounted to an execution.

Many of the bullet trains now brake at the first seismic tremor.

Mothers often say they would step in front of a bullet to save their child's life.

After examining the patient, the doctors concurred that it was not possible to remove the bullet.

Just about every text has this example of shooting a bullet horizontally and dropping a bullet from the same height.

He also revealed that some fragments of the bullet remained in her brain and could not be safely removed.

It sticks to one page, it uses bullet points and boldface type effectively, and is well spaced.

No magic bullet accounts for it-not even the tropical soyabean, which comes closest.

It features gold plated bullet-proof windows, tungsten and white gold gauges and bullet proof tires.

Nuclear power was once thought of as a silver bullet that would cure all pollution problems.

He died, apparently of bullet wounds to the head and abdomen, shortly before sunrise the next day.

Conservation of angular momentum with a bullet hitting a merry go round.

The résumé looks much better with the addition of bullet points and the inclusion of relevant employment experience.

One response to this line of thinking is to say, phew, the world economy dodged a bullet.

The new formation is known as the bullet cluster, because the gas forms a bullet shape in the smaller colliding cluster.

Clearly, these bullet points represent an overarching, general strategy.

Shown here is a high-speed video in his lab of a bullet piercing eggs.

Bullet train travel is much less stressful than air or car travel.

When it comes to dealing with climate change, some people are looking for a silver bullet.

People end up with bullet points that contradict one another, and no one notices.

And yet a one-ounce bird can hit a moving plane with the force of a bullet.

The bullet slams into the base of the now-huge pyre and discharges its deadly cargo into the beast's fiery heart.

With each job use bullet points to describe what you did.

With dozens of bullet and shrapnel wounds, he knew he was lucky to have survived.

Until it zaps you with a laser, and shoots you with pepper spray bullet.

If you have to process once or twice yearly, it may be worth it to bite the bullet and buy the full kit.

Really, about half of the bullet points above could be negatives depending on your perspective.

Gross compiles a list of bullet points the student can use on his or her résumé.

There, a sergeant was shot last week, and one bullet changed everything.

Would it be more efficient to use sentence bullet points in the.

California's lead bullet ban protects condors and other wildlife, but its biggest beneficiaries may be humans.

Malaysia announced this week that it will put on hold the proposed bullet train.

The funds for high-speed rail in the stimulus package will nonetheless not be enough to pay for a single bullet train.

Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet to solve this horrendous environmental problem.

Please do not write in bullet points, especially if you're in a field that cares about writing.

New owners who have grown up with the risk of imminent death from a bomb or bullet see roads as an extension of the battlefield.

They discovered bullet shell casings on the ground and learned of a recent exchange of gunfire between thieves and a guard.

If one is killed by a bullet aimed or simply a misfire, dead is dead.

Five or six bullet points, reinforced when you saw him with vigorous hand-chops, summed up any argument.

Stories had long held that the captain carried such a coin as a good-luck piece after it had saved him from death by a bullet.

People really believe that antibiotics are a magic bullet that will help any infection.

You've got to calculate wind resistance, distance, bullet trajectory.

It's hard for me to limit my interest to two or three bullet points.

Her zealous pursuit of counterfeit medicines nearly earned her a bullet in the head, leaving instead a hole in her headdress.

Cap-and-trade legislation that sets a price on carbon emissions would not be a magic bullet for solar either.

You've got to calculate wind resistance, distance, bullet trajectory and other.

The man beside him, on the point of jumping off, had taken a bullet in the face and gone under.

Hundreds of bullet scars on the church's walls still testify to the fury of the ensuing fight.

He showed videos of a calculus textbook stopping a pistol bullet, but not stopping a rifle bullet.

That's why pro gator hunters carry a bang stick, essentially a bullet.

Not so much powerpoint slides loaded with text, but images and short bullet points.

One innocent bystander was injured by a rebel bullet and then beaten up by government soldiers as he sought treatment.

The same may be true with bullet and tool-mark striations.

But the bullet punctured one of my lungs, which collapsed, and breathing was difficult.

The bullet severed the optic nerve in his right eye before shattering his jaw and then lodging in his neck near his jugular vein.

In any form, ethanol is far from being a silver bullet for environmental and energy woes, however.

Its three-line display, bullet antenna and matte black finish do little to attract the eye.

Of course, if all you are going to do is present a list of bullet points, then go with the handout.

It is widely accepted that the best way to stop a zombie is by destroying its brain with a bullet to the head.

If you're going to do something about climate change, there is not one silver bullet.

I've seen more than a few bearing multiple bullet wounds.

He thinks he dodged a bullet here, because the two weeks of training is unpaid and they can still decline to hire you after that.

And suggesting to someone that they bite the bullet and pitch in for the dept during the summer in an emergency is sound advice.

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World English Dictionary

bullet (ˈbʊlɪt)

—n
1.	a. a small metallic missile enclosed in a cartridge, used as the projectile of a gun, rifle, etc
	b. the entire cartridge
2.	something resembling a bullet, esp in shape or effect
3.	stock exchange a fixed interest security with a single maturity date
4.	commerce a security that offers a fixed interest and matures on a fixed date
5.	commerce
	a. the final repayment of a loan that repays the whole of the sum borrowed, as interim payments have been for interest only
	b. (as modifier): a bullet loan
6.	slang (Brit) dismissal, sometimes without notice (esp in the phrases getorgive the bullet)
7.	printing See centred dot
8.	bite the bullet See bite

[C16: from French boulette, diminutive of boule ball; see bowl²]

'bullet-like

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

bullet

1550s, from M.Fr. boulette "cannonball, small ball," dim. of boule "a ball" (13c.), from L. bulla "round thing, knob" (see bull (2)). Earliest version of bite the bullet recorded 1891, probably with a sense of giving someone something to clench in the teeth during a painful operation.

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Idioms & Phrases

bullet

see bite the bullet; sweat bullets.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

bullet

an elongated metal projectile that is fired by a pistol, rifle, or machine gun. Bullets are measured by their calibre, which indicates the interior diameter, or bore, of a gun barrel. (See bore.

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