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Definition: Bull |
BullAdjective1. Characterized by rising prices; "a bull market". Noun1. Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle. 2. A large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got". 3. A ludicrously false statement. 4. A serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment". 5. (informal) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman. 6. An investor with an optimistic market outlook. 7. The center of a target. 8. Mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle. Verb1. Push or force; "He bulled through his demands". 2. Try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying. 3. Talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it". 4. Advance in price, as of stocks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bull" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | Bull Bull Information Systems. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Biographical Satire | BULL, John, a fine, fat, American-beef fed individual who inhabits a suffragette-infested island somewhere in the North Atlantic. Born several hundred years ago and is beginning to show his age. Is fond of the sea and is said to have a fine fleet. This has had off years, notably 1812. B. has had trouble with a son who wishes to leave the paternal protection. Is fearless except when faced by a hunger strike, the Pankhurst family, and thoughts of Germany. Patronizes a costly social organization known as the Royal Family, or a reception committee for American heiresstocracy, which also dedicates buildings, poses for stamps, post-cards, motion pictures and raises princesses of Wales for magazine articles and crowning purposes. B. is a monitor of English style; wears a monocle, spats, 'i 'at, cane, pipe, awful accent, and never makes his appearance without a cawld bawth. He detests the word "egotism." Is a celebrated humorist, seeing through all jokes but himself. Ambition: 'Ome sweet 'Ome. Recreation: Tea, Week Ends. Address: Hingland. Clubs: Policemen's, Golf, Jockey, and Suffrage. Epitaph: See Emperor William Again. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Dream Interpretation | To see one pursuing you, business trouble, through envious and jealous competitors, will harass you. If a young woman meets a bull, she will have an offer of marriage, but, by declining this offer, she will better her fortune. To see a bull goring a person, misfortune from unwisely using another's possessions will overtake you. To dream of a white bull, denotes that you will lift yourself up to a higher plane of life than those who persist in making material things their God. It usually denotes gain. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Finance | A dealer in the stock market who, believing that prices will rise, contracts to buy many shares in the hope of selling them at a profit before he has to pay for them at Settling Day. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | In pair trawling, the boat which shoots or hauls the net. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Bull One of the twelve signs of the Zodiac (April 20 to May 21). The time for ploughing, which in Egypt was performed by oxen or bulls. "At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him." Thomson: Spring, 26, 27. Bull. A blunder, or inadvertent contradiction of terms, for which the Irish are proverbial. The British Apollo, 1740, says the term is derived from one Obadiah Bull, an Irish lawyer of London, in the reign of Henry VII., whose blundering in this way was notorious. Bull is a five-shilling piece. "Half a bull" is half-a-crown. From bulla, a great leaden seal. Hood, in one of his comic sketches, speaks of a crier who, being apprehended, "swallowed three hogs (shillings) and a bull." The pope's bull. So called from the bulla or capsule of the seal appended to the document. Subsequently the seal was called the bulla, and then the document itself. The edict of the Emperor Charles IV. (1356) had a golden bulla, and was therefore called the golden bull. (See Golden Bull.) Bull A public-house sign, the cognisance of the house of Clare. The bull and the boar were signs used by the partisans of Clare, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard III.). Bull A bull in a china shop. A maladroit hand interfering with a delicate business; one who produces reckless destruction. A brazen bull. An instrument of torture. (See Phalaris.) He may bear a bull that hath borne a calf (Erasmus: Proverbs) - "He that accustometh hym-selfe to lytle thynges, by lytle and lytle shalbe able to go a waye with greater thynges (Taverner). To take the bull by the horns. To attack or encounter a threatened danger fearlessly; to go forth boldly to meet a difficulty. The figure is taken from bull-fights, in which a strong and skilful matadore will grasp the horns of a bull about to toss him and hold it prisoner. John Bull. An Englishman. Applied to a native of England in Arbuthnot's ludicrous History of Europe. This history is sometimes erroneously ascribed to Dean Swift. In this satire the French are called Lewis Baboon, and the Dutch Nicholas Frog. "One would think, in personifying itself, a nation would ... picture something grand, heroic, and imposing, but it is characteristic of the peculiar humour of the English, and of their love for what is blunt, comic, and familiar, that they have embodied their national oddities in the figure of a sturdy, corpulent old fellow ... with red waistcoat, leather breeches, and a stout oaken cudgel ... [whom they call] John Bull."- Washington Irving. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. An iron rod used in ramming clay to line a shothole. See also:clay iron b. Aust. See:drag; backstay. c. N.S.W. To enlarge the bottom of a drilled hole to increase theexplosive charge. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BULL. An Exchange Alley term for one who buys stock on speculation for time, i.e. agrees with the seller, called a Bear, to take a certain sum of stock at a future day, at a stated price: if at that day stock fetches more than the price agreed on, he rece BULL. A blunder; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henery VII. by a bull is now always meant a blunder made by an Irishman. A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much worn by women. To look like bull BULL. A crown piece. A half bull; half a crown. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A bull market is a financial market where prices of instruments ( e.g. stockss ) are, on average, trending higher. The bull market tends to be associated with rising investor confidence and expectations of further capital gains.The opposite of a bull market is a bear market where the market is trending lower.
In common usage a bull market in the post-war period has probably lasted at least 2 years and bear markets about the same. Like recessions they are often best recognised after the fact. Dow Theory attempts a description of the character of these market movements; there are also many studies of the history of the markets e.g the book below by Hurst.
Both bull and bear markets may be fueled by sound economic considerations and/or by speculation. An exaggerated bull market fueled by over-confidence and/or speculation can lead to a stock market bubble. At the other extreme an exaggerated bear market, that tends to be associated with falling investor confidence, can lead to a stock market collapse and a capitulation phase (abandonment of hope).
Expectations play a large part in financial markets and in the changes from bull to bear environments. More precisely, attention should be paid to positive surprises and negative surprises. The tendency is for positive surprises to characterise a bull market (when the news continually tends to exceed investor's expectations) and conversely negative surprises tend to characterise the bear market (with expectations disappointed).
''See also:
- Stock market, Financial market''
- Chapter 12 of Keynes's "General Theory":http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Theory_of_Employment_Interest_and_Money
- The Profit Magic of Stock Transaction Timing by J. M. Hurst (a classic study now difficult to obtain that includes analysis of the duration of market movements).
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Bull-baiting was a popular amusement, particularly in 17th and 18th-century England, in which trained bulldogs attacked a tethered bull. In Queen Anne's time it was performed in London at Hockley Hole, regularly twice a week, and there was scarce a provincial town to which it did not extend. At Stamford and at Tutbury, from a very early period, a maddened bull was annually hunted through the streets.Together with other animal sports such as bear-baiting, cockfighting, and dogfighting, this amusement was prohibited in Great Britain by an act of Parliament in 1835.
External Links
- The Trial of 2 Centuries: Animal v. Animal Sport: Bull-Baiting
- Bull Baiting
- Bull-baiting
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Cattle
Larger image,Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Bovidae Subfamily: Bovinae Genus: Bos species: taurus Binomial name Bos taurus Cattle are domesticated ungulates of the species Bos taurus, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised for meat (called beef), dairy products (milk), and leather, and used for draft (pulling plows and the like). Older English sources such as the King James Version of the Bible also refer to livestock in general as cattle. This article refers to the common modern meaning of cattle.
Terminology
Young cattle are called calves. Young males are called bullocks or bull calves; young females are called heifers. Ordinarily male cattle are castrated unless needed for breeding. The castrated male is then called a steer, unless kept for draft (pulling) in which case it is called an ox. Intact males are called bulls. Adult females over two years of age (approximately) are called cows.There is no singular equivalent to "cattle" other than the various gender and age-specific terms (though "Catron" has been proposed it is not widely accepted or even understood). "Cow" is probably the closest to being gender-neutral, although it is usually understood to mean female (females of other animals, such as whales or elephants, are also called cows.) Some Canadian farmers use the term "cattlebeast." "Neat" and "beef" are obsolescent terms.
The terms bull and cow are also used for the male and female of some other species, including other bovids such as buffalo, but also less closely related species such as moose, elephants, whale, and sea lions. The terms are used primarily to refer to animals or that have polygynous or harem mating systemsm, though "bull" in particular may be used because humans find the male of a species daunting.
Biology
Cattle are ruminants, meaning that they have a unique digestive system that allows them to synthesize amino acids. This allows them to thrive on grasseses and other vegetation.The last European wild cattle, called aurochs, were killed by poachers in Masovia, Poland, in 1627, though one breeder claims to have recreated the original gene pool by careful crossing of commercial breeds.
Uses of cattle
Cattle occupy a unique role in human history. Some consider them the oldest form of wealth. Their ability to provide meat, dairy, and draft while reproducing themselves and eating nothing but grass has furthered human interests dramatically through the millennia.
Larger cow Click photo for more images. In Hinduism, the cow is said to be holy (and thus should not be eaten); "The cow is our Mother, for she gives us her milk."
In Latin America and the western United States, cattle are often grazed on large tracts of rangeland called ranchos or ranches.
In Portugal, Spain and some Latin American countries, bulls are used for the sport of bullfighting; in many other countries, this is illegal.
The recent outbreaks of mad cow disease have reduced or prevented some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or oxtail.
Ox
Oxen (plural of ox) are cattle trained as draft animals. Most often they are adult, castrated males. Usually an ox is over four years old due to the need for training and for time to grow to full size. The term steer is used to describe animals of the same species and gender when raised solely for meat. Oxen are used for plowing, transport, hauling, grain-grinding, and wagon drawing. Oxen are sometimes used to skid logs in low-impact select cut logging.Oxen are most often used in teams of two. A wooden yoke is fastened about their necks so that the force of draft is distributed across their shoulders. Oxen are chosen from calves with horns, since the horns hold the yoke in place when the oxen back up or slow down a wheeled load going down hills.
Oxen must be painstakingly trained from a young age. Their teamster must fashion or purchase as many as a dozen yokes of different sizes as the animals grow.
Oxen can pull harder than horses. Though not as fast, they are less prone to injury. There are still a substantial number of them in use worldwide, especially in less developed nations.
Miscellaneous
- The ox is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. See: Ox (Zodiac).
- The constellation Taurus represents a bull.
- In Hinduism, the cow is said to be holy (and thus should not be eaten); "The cow is our Mother, for she gives us her milk."
- A cow is alleged to have started the Great Chicago Fire by kicking over a kerosene lamp.
- On February 18, 1930 Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
Breeds of cattle:
- Angus
- Afrikaner
- Ankole
- Ayrshire
- Beefalo (a cross between domestic cattle and the American Bison)
- Beefmaster
- Belgian Blue
- Belted Galloway
- Black Angus
- Blonde d'Aqui
- Braford
- Brahman
- Brangus
- Braunvieh
- British White
- Brown Swiss
- BueLingo
- Canchim
- Charolais
- Chiangus
- Chianina
- Commercial
- Corriente
- Devon
- Dexter
- Friesian
- Galloway
- Gelbvieh
- Guernsey
- Heck Cattle
- Hereford
- Highland Cattle
- Holstein
- Hybridmaster
- Jersey
- Limousin
- Maine Anjou
- Marchigiana
- Miniature
- Murray Grey
- Normande
- Piedmontese
- Pinzgauer
- Polled Hereford
- Red Angus
- Red Brangus
- Red Poll
- Romagnola
- Salers
- Santa Gertrudis
- Senepol
- Shorthorn
- Simbrah
- Simmental
- South Devon
- Tarentaise
- Texas Longhorn
- Tuli
- Wagyu
- Watusi
- Zebu
See also
- List of domesticated animals
- Artiodactyla
- food, milk, cheese
- bullfighting
- cow tipping
- age of cattle
Other meanings of cow, bull etc
- Papal bull
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Papal bull is a written communication from the Vatican Chancery, originally sealed with lead (sometimes with precious metal, now more commonly with red ink). The term derived from the Latin bulla referring to the boiled appearance of the seal. There has never been an exact distinction of usage between a bull and other forms of communication, such as a Papal brief.
Examples of papal bulls
See also: Abbreviator
- Omne Datum Optimum 1139
- Milites Templi 1144 - Celestine II
- Militia Dei 1145 - Eugenius III
- Clericis Laicos 1296 - Boniface VIII
- Unam Sanctam 1302 - Boniface VIII
- Summis desiderantes 1484 - Innocent VIII
- Regimini militantis September 27, 1540 - Paul III
- Injunctum nobis March 14, 1543 - Paul III
- In Coena Domini 1568 - Pius V
- Regnans in Excelsis 1570 - Pius V
External link
- Papal Encyclicals Online
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ANTITRUST BULL | English | Antitrust Bulletin | N/A |
| Bull. | French | Bulletin | Language |
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Synonyms: BullSynonyms: bull(a) (adj), bruiser (n), bull's eye (n), bullshit (n), buncombe (n), bunk (n), bunkum (n), cop (n), copper (n), crap (n), dogshit (n), fuzz (n), guff (n), hogwash (n), horseshit (n), pig (n), rot (n), shit (n), strapper (n), bull through (v), fake (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: bear (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism, Hibernicism; slipslop; anticlimax, bathos; sophism. |
Animal | Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. |
Command | Dictation; dictate, mandate; caveat, decree, senatus consultum; precept; prescript, rescript; writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti-sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation; word, word of command; mot d'ordre; bugle call, trumpet call; beat of drum, tattoo; order of the day; enactment; (law); plebiscite; (choice). |
Error | Mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble; (failure); botchery; (want of skill); slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip; slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull; (absurdity); haplography. |
Man | Drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot. |
Mart | Investor, speculator, operator; bull, buyer; bear, short seller; scalper, arbitrager, arbitrageur; stockholder, share-holder, stockholder of record; bond holder, coupon-clipper. |
Merchant | Jobber; broker; (agent); buyer; seller; bear, bull. |
Solecism | Noun: solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae; slipslop; bull; barbarism, impropriety. |
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Screenplays | I hired a pit bull, not a prom queen (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Bull has got himself a girlfriend (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov) 3 oinkers wearing pants, plate full of hot air, basket of grandma's breakfast and change the bull to a gill, got it (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) Well, well, well, you two are having a real old fashion bull session (Maude; writing credit: Colette Deréal) Whoever named your car the Bull was only half right (Death Race 2000; writing credit: Ib Melchior; Robert Thom) | |
Lyrics | That's why they call me pit bull (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men) He ain't finished, uh-uh, that's bull! ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) Jeremiah was a bull frog ("Joy to the World"; performing artist: Three Dog Night) As they stuck the bull in their own clever way, (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | A person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as one hasn't. (references; author: Mark Twain) What Has Four Legs And An Arm? A Happy Pit Bull. (references; author: unknown) Deja moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before! (references; author: unknown) What do you call four bull fighters in quicksand? Quatro sinko. (references; author: unknown) Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Bull of the West (1971) A Lot of Bull (1963) Bull Fright (1955) Beauty and the Bull (1954) Sitting Bull (1954) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A large bull sea lion guarding his harem on an Alaska beach. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | A bull sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) doesn't agree that Coast Surveyors should land on his rock. Waving flare in vain attempting to frighten him off Crew off of Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | How do you lasso a bull sea lion? Very carefully! Personnel off the MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A large bull fur-seal probably too old to fight for a harem. Main part of rookery down to the left. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Bull whip kelp and rockfish. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | Beef bull. Credit: USDA. |
 | Herd bull in MS. Credit: USDA. |  | Ranchers in California set aside portions of their farms for collaborative studies on methyl bromide alternatives for strawberries. Plant pathologist Carolee Bull (right) and technician Adria Bordas evaluate biologically based methods for weed and disease control at Rod Koda's ranch. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Farm manager Arthur Ayala and plant pathologist Carolee Bull discuss commercial variety trials being conducted at the farm of Dale and Christine Coke in San Juan Bautista, California. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Bull CampSouth Fork OwyheeArcheologyLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: W. Meyer. |
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| "Sitting Bull" by Jan Sundstedt Commentary: "Sitting Bull at Legoland Denmark." | "Young Bull 2" by Kenn W. Kiser Commentary: "Young Bull grazing on an overcast day." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Bull mooing. | | Bull moo. |
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Josh Billings | Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa. |
Samuel Johnson | Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. |
Sitting Bull | The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it. |
William Shakespeare | In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Its outbursts, its great days, its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics fly to the ends of the universe, and so do its cock and bull stories also |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A squad of christian brothers was on its way back from the Bull and had begun to pass, two by two, across the bridge |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Main foreign competitors include Siemens, Bull, LG, Daewoo, Samsung, and Hyundai. (references) | |
The U.S. companies BULL and VeriFone (partner of the JV CardPay) export POS terminals. (references) | ||
They include the French companies Bull, Atos, and Sema, the German firm SAP and Siemens, and the Dutch firm Getronics. (references) | ||
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | Other brands include French Bull and Italian Olivetti. (references) |
France | The five largest suppliers of computer hardware in France are IBM, Bull, Compaq-Digital, Hewlett-Packard and ICL. (references) | |
Brazil | Global players including IBM, Compaq, ABC Bull, Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computers locally manufacture most PCs sold locally in Brazil. (references) | |
Political Economy | URUGUAY | To protect Uruguay's important livestock industry, imports of bull semen and embryos also face certain numerical limitations and must comply with animal health requirements, a process that can take a long time. (references) |
Trade | Uruguay | Among these are drugs, certain medical equipment and chemicals, firearms, radioactive materials, frozen embryos, livestock, bull semen, anabolics, sugar, seeds, hormones, meat and wheat. (references) |
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| "Bull" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.47% of the time. "Bull" is used about 1,536 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) | 52.47% | 806 | 8,639 |
| Noun (proper) | 47.33% | 727 | 9,285 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.2% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,536 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "bull" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bull | Last name | 5,000 | 2,671 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bull". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Harnepher | N/A | Biblical | The anger of a bull |
| Parmashta | N/A | Biblical | A yearling bull |
| Parnach | N/A | Biblical | A bull striking |
| Potiphar | N/A | Biblical | A fat bull |
| Potiphar | N/A | Biblical | Bull of Africa |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | Bull Societe Anonyme | USA | Bull Run Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "bull": a bull in a china shop ♦ a cock and a bull story ♦ american pit bull terrier ♦ blue bull ♦ Boston bull ♦ Brahman bull ♦ Bull baiting ♦ bull bar ♦ bull bat ♦ bull bay ♦ Bull brier ♦ Bull calf ♦ bull call spread ♦ bull coot ♦ bull elephant ♦ bull fiddle ♦ Bull fly ♦ bull gear ♦ bull head ♦ bull in a china shop ♦ bull Information Systems ♦ Bull mackerel ♦ bull market ♦ bull mastiff ♦ Bull Moose ♦ Bull Moose Party ♦ Bull Mooser ♦ bull neck ♦ bull nettle ♦ bull nose ♦ bull operator ♦ bull pen ♦ bull pine ♦ bull point ♦ Bull pump ♦ bull put spread ♦ bull Run ♦ bull seg ♦ bull session ♦ bull shark ♦ bull Shoals ♦ bull snake ♦ bull spread ♦ bull stag ♦ Bull terrier ♦ bull the market ♦ Bull thistle ♦ bull through ♦ bull tongue ♦ bull transaction ♦ Bull trout ♦ bull Valley ♦ bull whale ♦ Bull wheel ♦ bull wood ♦ call bull spread ♦ cock and bull story ♦ diagonal bull spread ♦ elephant bull ♦ fighting bull ♦ Golden bull ♦ he is like a bull in a china shop ♦ Indian bull ♦ irish bull ♦ john bull ♦ papal bull of excommunication ♦ pit bull ♦ pit bull terrier ♦ put bull spread ♦ sacred bull ♦ shoot the bull ♦ sitting Bull ♦ spotted bull ♦ take the bull by the horns ♦ Taurus the Bull ♦ The Golden Bull ♦ to enter into bull transactions ♦ To take the bull by the horns ♦ vertical bull call spread ♦ vertical bull put spread ♦ vertical bull spread. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bull": bull-at-a-gate, bull-baiting, bull-beef, bull-calf, bull-cape, bull-court, bull-dancing, bull-derived, bull-dog, bull-dose, bull-down, bull-dozed, bull-dozing, Bull-dwyer, bull-dyke, bull-faced, bull-fight, bull-fighter, bull-fighters, bull-fighting, bull-for-evers, bull-free, bull-frog, bull-god, bull-grappler, bull-grapplers, bull-grappling, bull-head plover, bull-headed, bull-headedness, bull-hide, bull-huss, bull-leaper, bull-leapers, bull-leaping, bull-licensing, bull-like, bull-man, bull-neck, bull-necked, bull-nosed, bull-owned, bull-related, bull-ring, bull-ritual, Bull-roarer, bull-running, bull-runnings, bull-slaying, bull-son, bull-subscriptions, bull-terrier, bull-tritons, bull-trout, bull-voiced, bull-whip, bull-woman. | |
Ending with "bull": cock-and-bull. | |
Containing "bull": a cock-and-bull story, cock-and-bull a story, cock-and-bull story. | |
| 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 |
raging bull | 2,446 | sitting bull | 274 |
bull terrier | 2,352 | running of the bull | 271 |
chicago bull | 1,713 | american bull dog | 270 |
bull mastiff | 1,539 | miniature bull terrier | 246 |
bull | 1,453 | blue pit bull | 213 |
red bull | 1,254 | battle of bull run | 206 |
bull dog | 789 | bull rider | 206 |
staffordshire bull terrier | 670 | red nose pit bull | 197 |
bull riding | 593 | bull run | 196 |
american pit bull terrier | 538 | bull whip | 193 |
durham bull | 537 | bull and bear | 169 |
bull picture pit | 487 | bull guard | 169 |
pit bull dog | 402 | bull pit sale | 165 |
pit bull terrier | 395 | pit bull rescue | 162 |
bull eye | 391 | mechanical bull | 160 |
bull snake | 332 | bull durham | 157 |
american pit bull | 311 | english bull terrier | 157 |
bull fighting | 311 | bull mastiff puppy | 148 |
pit bull puppy | 307 | bull shark | 148 |
english bull dog | 301 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bull"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bul. (various references) | |
Albanian | bulë, mashkull (buck, dog, he, male, mate, stag, Tom), i demit, demi (Taurus), dem (neat, ox). (various references) | |
Arabic | فحل (male, potent, virile), هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind), ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ذكر بعض الحيوان, المضارب على الصعود, ثور (beef, bovine, ferment, fire, heat, ox, ramp, rampage, rebel, revolt, revolutionize, rise, set against, steer, storm, take the bit in one's hands), شرطي (bobby, conditional, constable, cop, copper, gendarme, officer, pig, provisional, provisory, sleuth, subjunctive), برج الثور (taurus). (various references) | |
Basque | zezen. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самохвалство (bluster, boast, boastfulness, bounce, brag, braggadocio, braggery, bragging, fanfaronade, jactation, ostentation, rodomontade, splurge, swagger, vainglory, vaunt), служа си с насилие, спекулирам с цени, глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), оборка, мъжки слон (elephant bull), мъжки (he, male, man, man-sized, masculine, virile), безполезна работа, баламосвам (bamboozle, humbug, kid, string), биков, бик (neat), празнодумство (phrase-mongering), приказвам на едро, повишавам цени, полицай (bluebottle, constable, cop, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, grass, gumshoe, jemadar, patrolman, peace officer, peeler, pendant, peon, pig, pointsman, police officer, policeman, rozzer, runner, shamus, slop, trap). (various references) | |
Catalan | toro, tawro. (various references) | |
Chamorro | toru. (various references) | |
Chinese | 公牛 . (various references) | |
Cornish | tarow. (various references) | |
Czech | bula, blbost (balls, bunk, crap, garbage, stupidity), býk, haussista. (various references) | |
Danish | tyr. (various references) | |
Dutch | stier (Taurus), bul (diploma). (various references) | |
Esperanto | virbovo, taŭro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | tarvur (bovine, bovine animal). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرمان (Charter, Command, Commandment, Commission, Decree, Edict, Errand, Institute, Mandate, Ordinance, Ordonnance, Precept, Sanction, Word), مثل گاونررفتارکردن , نر (Husband, Masculine), گاونر (Ox), حیوانات نربزرگ , بی پرواکارکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | bulla (bleb, bulla), sonni, osakekeinottelija (bear, speculator in stock). (various references) | |
French | taureau (Bull/the), haussier (bullish). (various references) | |
Frisian | bolle. (various references) | |
German | stier (blank, Bullock, glassy, slack, slow, steer, taunts, Taurus, vacant), haussier (bull operator, long), haussespekulant (bull operator), bulle (cop, flatfoot, fuzz, pig). (various references) | |
Greek | ταύρος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שור (ox), פר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bika (stag, steer). (various references) | |
Icelandic | tarfur, naut. (various references) | |
Indonesian | berspekulasi, banteng (buff, bullock), sapi jantan, menyerobot (annex, pilfer). (various references) | |
Irish | tarbh. (various references) | |
Italian | toro (Taurus). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雄牛 , 牡牛 (ox, steer), 種牛 , ブリッジ回路 (bloomers, blue, blue backs, Blue Bird, blue book, blue boy, blue chip, blue day, blue film, Blue Impulse, blue Monday, Blue Ribbon, blue sex, blue train, blueberry, blue-black, blue-collar worker, blueglass, blues, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, bridge circuit, brilliant, brilliant cut, British Airways, British Columbia, broom, Brussels, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, childpornography), homosexual, shops where girls' uniforms and underwear are resold to dirty old men, sleeping train). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たねうし, おうし (deep knowledge, deep truth, dog's death, emperor's teacher, imperial army, ox, steer, violentdeath), ブル . (various references) | |
Manx | tarroo, scooirey as glenney (spit and polish), bulley (stock exchange bull, wood, wood bowls). (various references) | |
Occitan | taure. (various references) | |
Papago | tohlo. (various references) | |
Papiamen | toro. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ullbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | touro (taurus). (various references) | |
Romanian | bulã (bulla), buhai, taur (Bullock, neat, ox), speculant de bursã, specula la bursã, ridica cursul valutelor la bursã, reproducãtor (getter, reproducing, reproductive), poliţai (Bobby, myrmidon of the law, peon, policeman), mascul (dog, male), greşealã de exprimare, edict papal, copoi (bloodhound, ferret, hound, nark, nose, Ranger, retriever, slop, tracker, trap). (various references) | |
Romany | bikos. (various references) | |
Russian | бык (neat, ox, oxen, pier). (various references) | |
Scottish | tarbh (a bull). (various references) | |
Sepedi | poo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bik (taurus), besmislica (applesauce, balderdash, blah, blether, bosh, bunkum, double dutch, double talk, extravagance, fiddlestick, flubdub, mush, nonsense, pointlessness, ruck, tosh), poput bika, špekulant (jobber, speculator). (various references) | |
Shona | ngunzi. (various references) | |
Sicilian | tauru. (various references) | |
Spanish | toro (torus), alcista (bullish, rising). (various references) | |
Sranan | burukaw, mankaw. (various references) | |
Swahili | ng'ombe dume. (various references) | |
Swazi | í-nkûnzi. (various references) | |
Swedish | tjur (bull wood, compression wood, glassy wood, hard streak, pressure wood, redwood, Rotholz, tenar). (various references) | |
Thai | วัวตัวผู้ (ox), ซึ่งมีราคาสูงขึ้น. (various references) | |
Turkish | boğa (taurine). (various references) | |
Turkmen | цkьz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спекулянт, який грає на підвищення, сильний (acute, athletic, bad, bitter, cordial, deep, driving, nervous, nervy, penetrating, potent, powerful, punchy, quick, sharp, smart, spanking, strong, swingeing, vehement, vigorous), шпигун (emissary, fink, nark, nose, overlooker, shadow, spy), крона (coma, crown, crown-piece, krone, leafage), галаслива людина, бугай (bittern), безглуздя (humbug, nonsense, obtuseness, obtusity), бичачий (bovine, bullish, ox-like), бик (neat, nowt, ox), підвищувати в ціні, підвищуваний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sắc lệnh của giáo hoàng, nước tráng thùng rượu để uống, mật thám (busy, cop, copper, informer, lurcher, nark, pig), lóng ngóng không sợ khó khăn nguy hiểm, lời nói ngây ngô, lời nói ngớ ngẩn, lời nói khoác lác (hot air), lời nói bậy bạ, cảnh sát người vụng về. (various references) | |
Welsh | tarw. (various references) | |
Yucatec | wakax (bovine, bovine animal, cow). (various references) | |
Zulu | inkunzi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gud. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arabum, bana, bani, banus, bar, bara, baria, bos, bosforo, bosoramus, boum, boumque, bove, bovem, boves, bovesque, bovi, bovis, bubus, bulla, tauri, tauro, taurorum, taurorumque, tauros, taurum, taurus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | gava. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 21, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H bouV autwn ouk wmotokhsen dieswqh de autwn en gastri ecousa kai ouk esfalen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Bos eorum concepit et non abortit vacca peperit et non est privata fetu suo |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfore thou art enuyround with granes; and feerli drede disturbide thee. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Job Chapter 21, Verse 10 |
| Albanian | Demi i tyre mbars dhe nuk gabon, lopa e tyre pjell pa dështuar. |
| Cebuano | Ang ilang lake nga vaca magaliwat, ug dili mapoo; Ang ilang baye nga vaca magapanganak ug dili mahulog ang iyang nati. |
| Croatian | Njihovi bikovi plode pouzdano, krave im se tele i ne jalove se. |
| Danish | ej springer deres Tyr forgæves, Koen kælver, den kaster ikke; |
| Dutch | Zijn stier bespringt, en mist niet; zijn koe kalft, en misdraagt niet. |
| Finnish | Hänen sonninsa polkee eikä turhaan, hänen lehmänsä poikii eikä kesken. |
| French | Leurs taureaux sont vigoureux et féconds, Leurs génisses conçoivent et n`avortent point. |
| German | Seinen Stier läßt man zu, und es mißrät ihm nicht; seine Kuh kalbt und ist nicht unfruchtbar. |
| Hungarian | Bikája folyat és nem terméketlen, tehene megellik és el nem vetél. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ternak mereka berkembang biak, dan tanpa kesulitan, beranak. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lembunya berjantan tiada bersalah, sapinya beranak tiada gugur anaknya. |
| Italian | Il loro toro feconda e non falla, la vacca partorisce e non abortisce. |
| Maori | E kaha ana tana puru ki te ekeeke, kahore hoki e he; ka whanau tana kau, kahore hoki he whakatahe. |
| Norwegian | Hans okse parrer sig og spiller ikke, hans ku kalver og kaster ikke i utide. |
| Portuguese | O seu touro gera, e não falha; pare a sua vaca, e não aborta. |
| Rumanian | Taurii lor sknt plini de vlagq wi prqsitori, juncanele lor zqmislesc wi nu leapqdq. |
| Russian | чПМ ЙИ ПРМПДПФЧПТСЕФ Й ОЕ ЙЪЧЕТЗБЕФ, ЛПТПЧБ ЙИ ЪБЮЙОБЕФ Й ОЕ ЧЩЛЙДЩЧБЕФ. |
| Spanish | Su toro fecunda sin fallar; sus vacas paren y no pierden crías. |
| Swedish | När deras boskap parar sig, är det icke förgäves; lätt kalva deras kor, och icke i otid. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bull": bulla, bullace, bullaces, bullae, bullate, bullbaiting, bullbaitings, bullbat, bullbats, bulldog, bulldogged, bulldogger, bulldoggers, bulldogging, bulldoggings, bulldogs, bulldoze, bulldozed, bulldozer, bulldozers, bulldozes, bulldozing, bulled, bullet, bulleted, bulletin, bulletined, bulleting, bulletining, bulletins, bulletproof, bullets, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfighters, bullfighting, bullfightings, bullfights, bullfinch, bullfinches, bullfrog, bullfrogs, bullhead, bullheaded, bullheadedly, bullheadedness, bullheadednesses, bullheads, bullhorn, bullhorns, bullied. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bull": ebullience, ebulliences, ebulliencies, ebulliency, ebullient, ebulliently, ebullition, ebullitions, outbullied, outbullies, outbully, outbullying. (additional references) | |
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"Bull" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abulla, aull, billl, biul, bll, blu, bluo, boull, bsl, Bual, buel, buell, bul, bulle, bulli, Bullo, bulo, bult, byl, eull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bull" (pronounced buh"l) |
| 2 | -uh" l | full, pull, schul, wool. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-l-u" | |
+1 letter: bulla, bulls, bully. | |
+2 letters: bluely, boulle, bulbel, bulbil, bulbul, bullae, bulled, bullet, lobule. | |
+3 letters: baleful, ballute, billbug, blellum, bluffly, bluntly, boulles, bowlful, bulbels, bulbils, bulblet, bulbuls, bulkily, bullace, bullate, bullbat, bulldog, bullets, bullied, bullier, bullies, bulling, bullion, bullish, bullock, bullous, bullpen, burlily, globule, lobular, lobules, lullaby, rubella, rulable, soluble, solubly, subcell, voluble, volubly. | |
| 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. | |
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