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Definition: Bullet |
BulletNoun1. A projectile that is fired from a gun. 2. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bullet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Etymology: Bullet \Bul"let\, noun. [French expression boulet, diminutive of boule ball. See Bull an edict, and compare to Boulet.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bullet Every bullet has its billet. Nothing happens by chance, and no act is altogether without some effect. "There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will." Another meaning is this: an arrow or bullet is not discharged at random, but at some mark or for some deliberate purpose. "Let the arrow fly that has a mark."- Caesar borgia chap. xx. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A small, lustrous, nearly spherical industrial diamond b. A conical-nosed, cylindrical weight, attached to a wire rope or line, either notched or seated to engage and attach itself to the upper end of the inner tube of a wire-line core barrel or other retrievable or retractable device placed in a borehole. Syn:bug; go-devil; overshot c. A bullet-shaped weight or small explosive charge dropped to explode acharge of nitroglycerin placed in a borehole. (references) |
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A bullet is the metal projectile shot by a hand-held gun. They are part of a cartridge. As opposed to a shell, a bullet does not contain explosives.
Material
Bullets are classically molded from a mixture of lead and tin. Typesetter's lead (used to mold Linotype), works very well.
Some bullets are jacketed with copper or steel to make them harder.
Steel jacketed bullets are actually copper-dipped so that the steel will not damage the gun's rifling.
Bismuth bullet alloys are available, and prevent release of toxic lead into the environment. Neither tin nor copper are toxic to mammals.
Rubber bullets are designed to be non-lethal, for example for use in riot control.
Design
Bullet designs have to solve several problems:
The bullet must seal somewhat to the gun's bore. If it doesn't, the gas from the gunpowder will blow right by.
There are two types of seals in common use. One is a slight indentation in the back of the bullet. Gas pressure forces the metal lip against the bore.
Another type is a basic labyrinthine seal: one or two bands of raised material go around the bullet.
The bullet must not tumble in flight. This causes a dramatic loss of speed and energy. The tricks here vary depending on the design speed.
Supersonic bullets are pointed, smoothly sloping back to the rear. The longest-range supersonic bullets have a boat-tail, a narrowing and rounding-off toward the end to reduce vacuum on the back of the bullet.
Transonic bullets, such as deer slugs and air-gun pellets are double cones, going wide to narrow to wide. Basically, the narrow waist prevents auxiliary shockwaves from forming, and tumbling the bullet. This 'coke bottle' shape is also apparent in high speed aircraft.
Subsonic bullets generally have rounded fronts.
The bullet must accomplish its mission: usually, penetrate the target. Bullets either cut tissue, or damage it by causing a hydrostatic shockwave.
Since subsonic bullets lack a shock wave, they have to cut the biggest possible hole in order to maximise their damage.
One way is to drill the front of the bullet, creating a hollow point bullet, and possibly scribe the copper shell. When the bullet hits it will unfold into a sharp-edged flower that cuts through flesh.
The dum-dum is also an expanding bullet. It has a hard metal outer shell, and a soft lead interior and hack. When it hits, the lead cracks the metal shell, and flows into a wide, mushroom shape.
The Russian ammunition for the AK-47 had a bullet with a hard steel shell, a soft lead interior. a steel penetrator, and a bubble in the nose. Before shooting, the bullet was dynamically stable. After it hits, the interior lead deforms, causing the bullet to unbalance and tumble. The tumble was designed to cause the bullet to make exactly two flips in 40 CM, roughly the thickness of a human body. This maximizes hydrodynamic shock, but does not violate the Geneva Accords on Humane Weaponry.
Subsonic bullets with rounded fronts often glance off their target if it is at an angle. To prevent this, many people use wad cutters or semi wad cutters with flattened noses. The flat nose interferes with feeding a self-loading gun. Full wadcutters are usually only shot from revolvers or single-shot guns.
A variation is to have a ring of small teeth, covered by a soft plastic nose so that the bullet will feed correctly in self-loading guns. The teeth engage a sloping surface.
At close to moderate ranges, an explosive bullet is only slightly more effective than an expanding bullet. In most cases, they are not worth the extra expense and danger to the user. PETN is the standard explosive used in bullets.
Tracer bullets have a hollow back, filled with a flare material. Usually this is a mixture of magnesium, perchlorate, and chromium, to yield a bright red color.
Poisoned bullets are neglected by the industry. Theoretically, a .177 calibre bullet (the smallest in general use) should be able to carry enough curare to kill quite a large animal. This would also permit small, lethal guns. One obstacle may be the lack of an inexpensive stable poison that is edible. However, it does not explain why poisons remain unused.
The bullet must engage the rifling without damaging the gun's bore. Usually there's a raised band of material around its middle.
Manufacture
Small-scale manufacture is accomplished with individual molds, and hand-file to remove the mold artifacts. Larger scales use multiple molds, and abrasive tumbling to remove separation lines and other mold artifacts.
Treaties
The Geneva Accords on Humane Weaponry and the Hague Convention prohibit certain kinds of ammunition for use by armies. These include exploding, poisoned and expanding bullets.
History
Bullets started out as lead balls, made by dropping molten lead through sieves in "shot towers." The lead would solidify as it fell and cooled.
In the 1840s, inventor Joseph Minie noted that rifled bores spin a bullet, and the gyroscopic stabilization allowed a cylindrical bullet to remain end-to-the-target, and be more aerodynamic.
Minie's shape, the Minie ball was used in the American Civil War where it proved to have a range three times as long as the conventional musket ball. The resulting casualties were a tremendous surprise to combatants. In some cases, the minibal shot farther than cannons.
The basic bullet has had minor refinements, but has since remained almost unchanged.
In the late 1950s, engineers noted that a reverse ogive on the rear, a boat-tail increased range on supersonic bullets.
At one point in the 1960s, it looked as though flechettes might replace bullets, but bullets proved more economical, and no less destructive.
The original musket bullet was a spherical leaden ball two sizes smaller than the bore, wrapped in a loosely fitting paper patch which formed the cartridge. The loading was, therefore, easy with the old smooth-bore Brown Bess and similar military muskets. The original muzzle-loading rifle, on the other hand, with a closely fitting ball to take the grooves, was loaded with difficulty, particularly when foul, and for this reason was not generally used for military purposes.
In 1826 Delirque, a French infantry officer, invented a breech with abrupt shoulders on which the spherical bullet was rammed down until it expanded and filled the grooves. The objection in this case was that the deformed bullet had an erratic flight. The Brunswick rifle, introduced into the British army in the reign of William IV of England, fired a spherical bullet weighing 557 grains with a belt to fit the grooves. The rifle was not easily loaded, and soon fouled. In 1835 W. Greener produced a new expansive bullet, an oval ball, a diameter and a half in length, with a flat end, perforated, in which a cast metallic taper plug was inserted. The explosion of the charge drove the plug home, expanded the bullet, filled the grooves and prevented windage. A trial of the Greener bullet in August 1835, at Tynemouth, by a party of the 60th (now King's Royal) Rifles, proved successful. The range and accuracy of the rifle were retained, while the loading proved as easy as with a smooth-bore musket. The invention was, however, rejected by the military authorities on the ground that the bullet was a compound one. In 1852 the government awarded Minie, a Frenchman, L. 20,000 for a bullet of the same principle, adopted into the British service. Subsequently, in 1857, Greener was also awarded L. 1000 for "the first public suggestion of the principle of expansion, commonly called the Minie principle, in 1836." The Minie bullet contained an iron cup in a cavity in the base of the bullet. The form of the bullet was subsequently changed from conoidal to cylindro-conoidal, with a hemispherical iron cup. This bullet was used in the Enfield rifle introduced into the British army in 1855. It weighed 530 grains, and was made up into cartridges and lubricated as for the Minie rifle. A boxwood plug to the bullet was also used. The bullet used in the breech-loading Martini-Henry rifle, adopted by the British government in 1871 in succession to the Snider-Enfield rifle, weighed 480 grains, and was fired from an Eley-Boxer cartridge-case with a wad of wax lubrication at the base of the bullet.
Between 1854 and 1857 Sir Joseph Whitworth conducted a long series of rifle experiments, and proved, among other points, the advantages of a smaller bore and, in particular, of an elongated bullet. The Whitworth bullet was made to fit the grooves of the rifle mechanically. The Whitworth rifle was never adopted by the government, although it was used extensively for match purposes and target practice between 1857 and 1866, when it was gradually superseded by Metford's System mentioned below.
The next important change in the history of the rifle bullet occurred in 1883, when Major Rubin, director of the Swiss Laboratory at Thun, invented the small-calibre rifle, one of whose essential features was the employment of an elongated compound bullet, with a leaden core in a copper envelope. About 1862 and later, W. E. Metford had carried out an exhaustive series of experiments on bullets and rifling, and had invented the important system of light rifling with increasing spiral, and a hardened bullet. The combined result of the above inventions was that in December 1888 the Lee-Metford small-bore .303 rifle, Mark I, was finally adopted for the British army. The latest development of this rifle is now known as the .303 Lee-Enfleld, which fires a long, thin, nickel-covered, leaden-cored bullet 1.25 inches long, weighing only 215 grains, while the Martini-Henry bullet, 1.27 inches in length and .45 inches in diameter, weighed 480 grains.
The adoption of the smaller elongated bullet, necessitated by the smaller calibre of the rifle, entailed some definite disadvantages. The lighter bullet is more affected by wind. Its greater relative length to diameter necessitates a sharper pitch of rifling in order properly to revolve the bullet (one turn in 10 inches for the .303 rifle as compared with one turn in 22 inches for the Martini-Henry). This, in its turn, necessitates a hard nickel envelope for the leaden bullet in order to prevent its "stripping," or being forced through the barrel without rotation. The general result is that, while the enveloped bullet has a much higher penetrative power than one of lead only, it does not usually inflict so severe a wound, nor has it such a stunning effect as the old lead bullet. It cuts a small clean hole, but does not deform. This fact is of some military importance, as, for example, in warfare with savages, in which the chief danger is usually a rush of large numbers at close quarters. The advantages, however, of the smaller calibre and the lighter bullet and ammunition are considered to outweigh the disadvantages, and they have been universally adopted for all military rifles.
Bullets for target and sporting-rifles have, in the main, followed, or occasionally preceded, the line of progress of military rifle bullets. In 1861 Henry introduced a modification of the grooving of the cylindrical Whitworth bullet, and in 1864 and 1865 the Rigby mechanically fitting bullet was used with success at the National Rifle Association meeting, and in the second stage of the Queen's prize. The bullets of sporting rifles, and particularly those of Express rifles, are often lighter than military bullets, and made with hollow points to ensure the expansion of the projectile on or after impact. The size and shape of the hollow in the point vary according to the purpose required and the nature of the game hunted. If greater penetration is needed, the leaden bullet is hardened with mercury or tin, or the military nickel-coated bullet is used with the small-bore, smokeless-powder rifles. Explosive bullets filled with detonating powder were at one time used in Express and large-bore rifles for large game. The use of these bullets is now practically abandoned owing to their uncertainty of action and the danger involved in handling them. Their use in warfare is prohibited by international law.
The nickel-covered bullet, when used in a modern small-bore rifle for sporting purposes, is made into an expanding bullet, either by leaving the leaden core uncovered at the nose of the bullet, with or without a hollow point, or by cutting transverse or longitudinal nicks of varying depth in the point or circumference of the bullet.
A cone-shaped sharp-pointed bullet, named the Spitzer bullet, has been tried in the United States under the auspices of the Ordnance Department, in a Springfield rifle, which is practically identical with the British service .303 Lee-Enfield. This bullet is lighter than the Lee-Enfield bullet (150 grains as against 215 grains), and when fired with a heavier charge of powder (51 grains as against 31 grains) gives, it is claimed, better results in muzzle-velocity, trajectory, deflexion from wind and wear and tear of rifling, than the present universally used cylinder-shaped bullet. In 1906 details of its prototype, the German "S" bullet (Spitzgeschoss), and of the French "D" bullet, were published.
See also: gun, cartridge, percussion cap, weapon, ammunition, terminal ballistics, List of cartridges (weaponry), pistol and rifle
A bullet is a typographic symbol.
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Bullet was the first 7" EP by the punk band The Misfits. The band's second release was self-produced and distributed as Plan 9 Records number PL1001. It was recorded in January of 1978 at C.I. Recording and released in June of 1978. In addition to the highly controversial lyrics, the cover featured a photo of President John F. Kennedy in a convertible car with a red blood splatter drawn behind his head, depicting his assassination.The title track, "Bullet," arose from front man Glenn Danzig's morbid fascination with the life and death of President Kennedy, and, of course, his beloved widow, Jackie O. A line from the refrain gave the later melodic band Texas Is The Reason its name: "Texas is the reason that the president's dead." It has been said by both Jerry Only and Bobby Steele that "We Are 138" was based on George Lucas's 1971 science fiction film THX-1138, although Danzig has repeatedly denied this. "Hollywood Babylon" may have been based on the Kenneth Anger book of the same name.
The first pressing was limited to 1000 copies on plain black vinyl, in hand-screened gatefold covers, a fraction of which Danzig also hand-colored. The second, and final, printing was of 2000 copies on red vinyl in January of 1979. These records are sometimes incorrectly referred to as Better Dead On Red, because of the artwork that was added to the back cover, which featured an image of a bullet hole and the words "Better Dead On Red." These same covers were used to package approximately 100 of the first pressing black EPs, which have often been mistaken for a rare third pressing. In fact, there were only two pressings, and Danzig has refuted claims by Pushead of a third pressing numbering at least 7000. The initial pressing primarily featured a matching screened color insert, which was later replaced by low-quality black and white photocopies in the majority of records.
All four songs were part of a larger 17 track recording session that produced material for at least 5 Misfits records. Recording was done on three reels of 2" 16-track tape, which was mixed onto two 1/4" reels. All of these tracks feature at least two guitar tracks, with Franche Coma playing over Danzig's original tracks.
Track listing
Side A.
Side B.
- "Bullet" (Danzig) - 1:37
- "We Are 138" (Danzig) - 1:40
- "Attitude" (Danzig) - 1:28
- "Hollywood Babylon" (Danzig) - 2:17
Recording details
- Franche Coma - Guitar, Background vocals
- Glenn Danzig - Vocals, Guitar
- Jim Catania - Drums
- Jerry Only - Bass, Background vocals
- Dave Achelis - Engineer
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In typography, a bullet is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list, like below:
It is most conveniently used in technical writing or reference works to introduce a series of related items. They may be short phrases or of paragraph length. The main point is that all need to be tied together under a general heading. Bulleted items, commonly called "bullets", are usually terminated with a full stop. In computer programming, the bullet corresponds to Unicode character 0x2022.
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Synonyms: BulletSynonyms: fastball (n), heater (n), hummer (n), slug (n), smoke (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt. |
Ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; "villainous saltpeter"; dumdum bullet. | |
Rotundity | Sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution). |
Vehicle | Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Would that include a bullet from this gun (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Which bullet has my name on it (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) You had a bullet from World War I in your leg, James (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) It was a bullet, wasn't it (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) | |
Lyrics | I've got a bullet with your name (Bullet With Your Name; performing artist: The Cars) Your name is on the bullet (LOVE IS IN CONTROL; performing artist: Donna Summer) Take a bullet with some dick and take this dope from this jet (The Next Episode; performing artist: Dr. Dre) She drives her car like it's a bullet (Falling Down; performing artist: Free) When the bullet hits the bone (Twilight Zone; performing artist: Golden Earring) | |
Clever | You work for a defense contractor if you use bullet format to make your grocery list. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bullet for a Badman (1964) A Bullet for Billy the Kid (1963) No Name on the Bullet (1959) Bullet from the Past (1957) A Bullet for Joey (1955) | |
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 | Nonfatal and fatal assaultive firearm-related injury rates for males aged 15-24 years, by quarter--United States, 1993-1997. Gun, bullet, shoot, crime, criminal, murder, homicide. Credit: CDC. |  | Window pane with bullet hole at Shirk Ranch. Credit: John Craig. |
 | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 9, Chateauroux, France. : Operation for the removal of a bullet, using the Ledoux-Lebard method. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Color Sergeant Riley Porter, in the trenches before Santiago, July 9/98. (The flag has three bullet holes). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Lieutenant Commander Dempster M. Jackson, USN, Executive officer of USS Maddox (DD-731), kneels next to the hole made by the machine gun bullet that hit his ship's Mk.56 director pedestal during the engagement between Maddox and three North Vietnamese motor torpedo boats on 2 August 1964. The bullet is lodged in the hole. Taken by a USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) photographer on 10 August 1964. Credit: NAVY. |  | That silver dollar's my last bullet in the battle for Ann Bartlett's defence, Patt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | What the fire of bullet does to the heart as if our fire / Ardeshir. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shop window showing bullet hole, riots of July 1917, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | This is where Malcolm X was standing when assassins struck--Note bullet holes in rostrum / World Telegram & Sun p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Stanley Wolfson.. |  | Production. Magnesium. A helmeted welder is busily engaged in his part of the war effort at Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. The plant is turning out great quantities of magnesium for aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bullet holes" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "Bullet holes in glass windows." |
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 | Bullet shooting from an automatic rifle. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | The ballot is stronger than the bullet. |
| Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At all events I have (r)leve *(2) a bullet which we will make him (r)morfiler |
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Health | A. Notice the bullet shape of the virus. (references) | |
Other types of injury included lacerations, caused by a bullet or other object, and central cord syndrome. (references) | ||
Researchers are wary of giving people false hopes that a magic bullet for curing spinal cord injury is just around the corner. (references) | ||
Business | With additional public works projects planned for the future, such as a bullet train system between Taipei and Kaohsiung as well as subways systems for select major cities on the island, the demand for imported fire detection devices is almost sure to increase over the next several years. (references) | |
It was predicted by 2001 that taxis will start heavily protecting themselves with bullet proof shields between the front and back seats; push alarms on the dashboard; cash security boxes welded to the chassis; debit, pre-paid or credit card payment devices; and advanced communications systems. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Malawi | One student protestor was shot in the chest and later died in the hospital; a bystander also was hospitalized after a bullet grazed his neck. (references) |
Economic History | Taiwan | A business group has started construction of the north-south bullet railway. (references) |
Norway | However, news about Norway in English is sparse, limited to a few Internet services that provide mostly bullet points. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | The autopsy only mentioned the bullet wound to the head. (references) |
Namibia | The Government announced that an autopsy showed no bullet holes in the body. (references) | |
Ecuador | Carlos Cabrera and Juan Arias died of bullet wounds and a number of others were injured. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | You know, when you're knocking over small children as you careen down the street because you're literally crating cargo in your pants, it seems like the cooler move at that point would be just to bite the bullet and go with the man-purse. |
Jack Hanna | Never again will I do it. It was like a bullet going between my legs. Of course I held you know what so nothing would happen. I'll tell you that. It's unbelievable. |
Nellie Connally | The third bullet. And, see, just think about it. Six seconds a shot. John turns, can't see anything. He turns over here, he can't see anything. He starts back and there's another shot. That bullet couldn't have just hung in the air. |
Norman Mineta | Well, first of all, bag-match is not the silver bullet all by itself. As I indicated earlier, security is a multi-layered approach. And the law itself that Congress passed gave us a blueprint in terms of mandates of how we should screen baggage. |
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| "Bullet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.57% of the time. "Bullet" is used about 696 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.57% | 693 | 9,601 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 696 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bullet": bite the bullet ♦ bullet hole ♦ bullet perforating ♦ bullet proof ♦ bullet proof vest ♦ bullet securities ♦ bullet train ♦ Bullet tree ♦ bullet went right through him ♦ Bullet wood ♦ bullet wound ♦ Cannon bullet ♦ Dumdum bullet ♦ dummy bullet ♦ incendiary bullet ♦ lead bullet ♦ magic bullet ♦ percussion bullet ♦ plastic bullet ♦ put a bullet in smb.'s back ♦ put a bullet into smb. ♦ random bullet ♦ rubber bullet ♦ silver bullet ♦ stop a bullet ♦ stray bullet ♦ the bullet went right through him ♦ tracer bullet ♦ wandering bullet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bullet": bullet-battered, bullet-brow, bullet-catcher, bullet-catchers, bullet-head, bullet-headed, bullet-hole, bullet-holed, bullet-holes, Bullet-in, bullet-like, bullet-nosed, bullet-pocked, bullet-point, bullet-proof, bullet-ridden, bullet-riddled, bullet-shaped, bullet-slashed, bullet-stream, bullet-streams. | |
Ending with "bullet": black-bullet, diamond-bullet. | |
Containing "bullet": charmed-bullet marksman. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bullet | 1,316 | magic bullet | 64 |
bullet proof vest | 395 | bullet gun paintball silver | 57 |
silver bullet | 207 | bullet trap | 56 |
sierra bullet | 161 | silver bullet vibrator | 55 |
bullet train | 130 | bullet proof glass | 54 |
bullet hole | 126 | belt bullet | 54 |
bullet boat | 117 | ant bullet | 54 |
barnes bullet | 107 | bullet freight | 51 |
bullet bra | 99 | bullet ftp | 51 |
speer bullet | 98 | animated bullet | 50 |
bullet boy | 97 | swift bullet | 47 |
love and bullet | 89 | bullet picture | 43 |
cast bullet | 83 | bullet jersey jordan | 42 |
hornady bullet | 82 | 100 bullet | 41 |
bullet proof ftp | 81 | bullet proof car | 41 |
bullet camera | 76 | bullet vibrator | 39 |
bullet monk proof | 75 | washington bullet | 39 |
nosler bullet | 74 | bullet casting | 38 |
bullet time | 72 | bullet with butterfly wings | 37 |
bullet ncoer | 70 | bullet proof hosting | 37 |
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| Language | Translations for "bullet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | koeël. (various references) | |
Albanian | plumb (ball, lead, packet, pellet, plumbum, seal, shot, slug). (various references) | |
Arabic | كرة صغيرة, طلقة (crack, fire, shot), رصاصة (ball, slug). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | куршум (pellet). (various references) | |
Chinese | 子彈 , 子弹 (bullets, slug, Slugs), 彈 (ball, crossball, impeach, shell, shot, to play, to pluck a string). (various references) | |
Czech | střela (kick, missile, projectile, shaft, slug), kulka (slug). (various references) | |
Danish | kugle (bulb, float, globus, marble, sphere). (various references) | |
Dutch | kogel (ball, ball-bearing, globe). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kuglo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | kúla (ball, ball-bearing, bump, globe, hump). (various references) | |
Farsi | گلوله تفنگ , گلوله (Ball, Blob, Cartridge, Gunshot, Missile, Pellet, Shaft, Shot). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuula. (various references) | |
French | balle, projectile. (various references) | |
Frisian | kûgel. (various references) | |
German | Kugel (ball, ball-bearing, bowl, globe, marble, orb, pellet, scoop, shot, slug, sphere), geschoss (floor, level, missile, projectile, shot, slug, story). (various references) | |
Greek | σφαίρα (ball, bowl, globe, orb, projectile, realm, shot, slug, sphere). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קליע (dumdum, missile, shot). (various references) | |
Hungarian | golyó (ball, cartridge, orb, shot, slug, sphere, stone), lövedék (ammunition, ball, crump, missile, munition, projectile, round, shell, shot, slug). (various references) | |
Indonesian | belinjo, peluru (ball-cartridge, buckshot, missile). (various references) | |
Italian | palla (ball, ballot, bowl, orb), pallottola (ball, pellet, shot, slug). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 弾 (shell, shot). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たま (ball, coin, globe, shell, shot, soul, sphere, spirit), じゅうがん (absolute safety, consummation, eyelet, former, loophole, perfection, previous), じゅうだん (cutting across, flying through), てっぽうだま (bulls-eye, gunshot, lostmessenger), だんがん (absolutely, definitely, firmly, shell, shot). (various references) | |
Korean | 탄알 (bullets). (various references) | |
Manx | bullad. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kule. (various references) | |
Papiamen | bal (cost). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulletbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bala (bale, candy, missile, pile, pill, projectile, shell, slingshot, stack). (various references) | |
Romanian | proiectil (missile, projectile, shell, shot), glonţ. (various references) | |
Russian | пуля (ball, pellet, shot, slug). (various references) | |
Scottish | peileir (a bullet), peilear (ball or bullet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zrno (grain, kernel, seed), metak. (various references) | |
Spanish | bola (ball, balloon, bowl, bull, chunk, clod, Corker, egg, fib, humbug, lump, marble, pellet, polish, slam, wood), bala (ammunition, bale, ball, packet, pill, shot). (various references) | |
Sranan | kugru. (various references) | |
Swedish | kula (ball, bead, bulb, cave, den, kennel, lair, paunch, pellet, pill, shot, weight). (various references) | |
Tagalog | bála. (various references) | |
Thai | กระสุนปืน (dumdum). (various references) | |
Turkish | mermi (missile, projectile), mermí, kurşun (lead, plumbic, plumbo-, projectile, Saturn). (various references) | |
Turkmen | seзme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ядро (ball, core, nucleus, pill), куля (ball, globe, orb, round, slug, sphere, wood). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngoan cố (bullet-headed, dyed-in-the-wool, froward, opinionated, pertaincious, recalcitrant, tenacious, unadvisable), ngăn được đạn (bullet-proof), người ngoan cố (bullet-head, recalcitrant), người cứng cổ (bullet-head), cứng cổ (bullet-headed, cussed, fractious, hard-handed, opinionated), đạn bắn không thủng (ball-proof, bullet-proof). (various references) | |
Welsh | bwled. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bulla, globus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bullet": bulleted, bulletin, bulletined, bulleting, bulletining, bulletins, bulletproof, bullets. (additional references) | |
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"Bullet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballett, bellet, bellett, Benllech, Billett, bluett, Bluiett, Bolet, Bollaert, bollit, bollito, budlet, bueller, buglet, Bulaleh, Bulat, bule, Buleita, bulglet, Bulith, bullae, bullata, bullate, bullator, bulle, bullen, bullent, bullety, Bulley, bulli, bullient, bullit, bulot, Mbulelo, Tullett, Ullet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bullet" (pronounced buh"lut) |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, articulate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, immaculate, inarticulate, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-l-t-u" | |
-1 letter: bluet, butle, tulle. | |
-2 letters: bell, belt, blet, blue, bull, bute, lube, lute, tell, tube, tule. | |
-3 letters: bel, bet, but, ell, let, leu, tel, tub. | |
-4 letters: be, el, et, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-l-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ballute, bulblet, bullate, bullets. | |
+2 letters: ballutes, bulblets, bulleted, bulletin, bulliest, lobulate, tableful, tullibee, umbellet. | |
+3 letters: blastulae, bottleful, bulleting, bulletins, ebullient, lobulated, rubellite, sublethal, subtilely, tablefuls, tablesful, tullibees, umbellate, umbellets. | |
+4 letters: absolutely, antebellum, bluebottle, bottlefuls, bulletined, butterball, cultivable, ebullition, multilobed, outbullied, outbullies, postbellum, rubellites, thimbleful, trolleybus, tumblerful, untillable, utilizable. | |
+5 letters: articulable, beautifully, bellybutton, bluebottles, bulletining, bulletproof, bullfighter, bullterrier, butterballs, doubtlessly, ebulliently, ebullitions, ineluctable, ineluctably, multibarrel, multibladed, racquetball, rambouillet, sublethally, submultiple, subtotalled, thimblefuls, tumblerfuls, turbulently, unalterable, unalterably, unballasted, unelectable, unpalatable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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