BULLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bullet mean? 

• BULLET (noun)
  The noun BULLET has 3 senses:

1. a projectile that is fired from a gun

2. a high-speed passenger train

3. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

  Familiarity information: BULLET used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A projectile that is fired from a gun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bullet; slug

Hypernyms ("bullet" is a kind of...):

missile; projectile (a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bullet"):

dumdum; dumdum bullet (a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound)

full metal jacket (a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper))

rifle ball (a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape)

rubber bullet (a bullet made of hard rubber; designed for use in crowd control)

Holonyms ("bullet" is a part of...):

cartridge (ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A high-speed passenger train

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bullet; bullet train

Hypernyms ("bullet" is a kind of...):

passenger train (a train that carries passengers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bullet; fastball; heater; hummer; smoke

Context example:

he showed batters nothing but smoke

Hypernyms ("bullet" is a kind of...):

delivery; pitch ((baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bullet"):

slider (a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown)

 Context examples 

I suppose, Doctor, you have not recovered the bullet which wounded the lady?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You might have metal in your body if you have a shrapnel or bullet injury or if you are a welder.

(MRI Scans, NIH)

A voice replied, telling him to keep out of the moonlight or he would get some lead in him, and at the same time a bullet whistled close by his arm.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A genus of enveloped, bullet or cylindrical shaped viruses in the family Rhabdoviridae.

(Lyssavirus, NCI Thesaurus)

"To put it simply, all evidence indicates that there is no magic bullet," Dr. Eric Larson wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

(Study: There's No Fail-safe Way to Prevent Dementia, VOA)

An instant later the explosion occurred, though Hudson thought it was caused by the misdirected bullet of one of the convicts rather than the mate’s match.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If we Naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

The bullets we had received had travelled nearly a mile, but by now we had cut that distance in half.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To say nothing of three bullet holes clear through him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The stranger-man is very weak. His arm shakes, so that when he shoots at the man his bullet strikes in the snow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)