单词 | bullet |
释义 | bullet (once / 214 pages) 1n 2n 3n A bullet is the metal object that is fired out of a gun when its trigger is pulled. Without bullets, a gun is harmless. If someone talks about ammunition for a gun, they're talking about bullets. A bullet doesn't usually contain explosives but does its damage by penetrating whatever — or whomever — it hits. The Middle French source of bullet is boulette, "cannonball" or "small ball," from boule, "a ball," with its Latin root bulla, "round thing." To "bite the bullet" means to withstand an unpleasant but necessary situation, from the (possibly fictitious) practice of patients biting bullets during painful operations. WORD FAMILYbullet: bullets USAGE EXAMPLESWitnesses described diving under tables as he walked around spraying bullets from an automatic rifle. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) The gunman who killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub fired up to 180 bullets, Turkish media report. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) A wreath adorns the balcony outside the room, where he was felled by a bullet. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 n a projectile that is fired from a gun 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper slug dumdum, dumdum bullet a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound full metal jacketa lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) rifle balla bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape rubber bulleta bullet made of hard rubber; designed for use in crowd control missile, projectile a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled n (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper fastball, heater, hummer, smoke slider a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown delivery, pitch (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter n a high-speed passenger train Syn|Hyper bullet train passenger train a train that carries passengers |
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