bulletとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French boulette.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊl.ɪt/
• 韻: -ʊlɪt

名詞

bullet (複数形 bullets)

1. A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
2. (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
3. Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
4. (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, (•), often used in lieu of numbers for marking items in a list. (see also bulleted)
5. (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
6. A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

   John's not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday.

7. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): (slang) One year of prison time
8. (slang) An ace (the playing card).
   • 1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor (volumes 2-3, page 135)

     The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

9. (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
   • 2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.

10. (in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).

    bullet train

    bullet chess

11. (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
12. (Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
13. (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
14. (obsolete) A small ball.
    • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

      Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe?

15. (obsolete) A cannonball.
    • (Can we date this quote by Stow かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

      A ship before Greenwich […] shot off her ordnance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone.

16. (obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.

同意語

• (projectile shot from a gun): cap (スラング), pill (スラング), slug (スラング)

下位語

派生語

• bulletin
• bulletproof

関連する語

動詞

bullet (三人称単数 現在形 bullets, 現在分詞 bulleting, 過去形および過去分詞形 bulleted)

1. (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
   • 2000, Merriam-Webster, Inc, Merriam-Webster's collegiate encyclopedia‎, page x:

     For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we have bulleted "World Wide Web"

   • 2004, Richard P. Pohanish, HazMat data: for first response, transportation, storage, and security‎, page x:

     The author has bulleted this section to make it easier to read and included important notes and warnings.

   • 2008, Deanna Davis, The law of attraction in action, page 42:

     I had mind-mapped everything from my business to my baby girl's needs and had bulleted my talking points, brownie points, and breaking points for just about every life area

2. (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.

   Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.

3. (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.

   He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.

参照

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

Latin

動詞

bullet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of bullō