bulletとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊl.ɪt/
• Rhymes: -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.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:

     Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
     And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet,
     Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made,
     That leads to Pallace of my brothers life,
     Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.

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.
    • 1592, John Stow, The Annales of England

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

16. (obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.
17. A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
    • 1975, Pete Wingfield, Eighteen with a Bullet (song)

      I'm eighteen with a bullet
      Got my finger on the trigger, I'm gonna pull it
      […]
      I'm high on the chart
      I'm tip for the top

    • 2013, Hallee Bridgeman, A Melody for James

      Her third release hit number one in record time — “number one with a bullet” as they said in the industry — and after that, there seemed to be no stopping her.

同意語

• (projectile shot from a gun): cap (スラング), pill (スラング), slug (スラング)
• (symbol “•”): bullet point

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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

語源 2

From bull +‎ -let.

名詞

bullet (複数形 bullets) (rare)

1. A young or little bull; a male calf.
   • 1886, Hamilton Literary Magazine, Clippings, page 110:

     —Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. “See,” said the young lady, “those two cute little cowlets.” “Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets.”

   • 1937, Quarterly Bulletin: The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, page 17:

     “I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.

   • 1959, Kitchens, C. B., X-syrps from the Trickem News Chronic, page 5:

     YES — imagine, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets^[sic] take the cow and bull side of the question first. REMEMBER — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets and bullets and baking a bale of hay.

   • 2013 November 20, Gorio, “Re: Milk, redefined. What do you think about this????”, in rec.food.cooking, Usenet, message-ID <Gorio.cd28428.923639@foodbanter.com>:

     > Correct. No other animals drink cow's milk but cows! / Cows drink milk? Maybe their little cowlets and bullets (future steerlets) do; but I have yet to see a cow drink milk. Other animals love cow milk. My dog, the barn cats up the road.