Definitions of Bull [ˈbʊlˌʃɪt]

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Definition of 'Bull'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) bull
the male of a bovine mammal, esp. of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.

2.  bull
the male of certain other animals, as the elephant and moose.

3.  bull
a large, solidly built person.

4.  bull
a person who believes that stock prices will increase

5.  bull
(cap.) Taurus .

6.  bull
a bulldog.

7.  bull
Slang. a police officer.

8. (adj.) bull
male.

9.  bull
pertaining to or resembling a bull, as in size or strength.

10.  bull
marked by rising prices, esp. of stocks:
a bull market.

11. (v.t.) bull
to accomplish by forcing or shoving:
to bull one's way through a crowd.

12. (n.) bull
a formal papal document having a bulla attached.

13. (n.) bull
exaggerations; lies; nonsense.

14. (v.i.) bull
to engage in foolish or exaggerated talk.

15. (v.t.) bull
to try to fool or impress by lies or exaggeration.

16. (n.) Bull
John Bull.

17. (n.) bull
nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.

18. (v.t.) bull
to lie, exaggerate, or speak nonsense to.

19. (v.i.) bull
to speak lies or nonsense.

20.  bull
to converse idly.

21. (interj.) bull
(used to express disapproval, disagreement, or the like.)

Etymology: (1910–15)

Definition of 'Bull'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bull
uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

2. (noun) bull, bruiser, strapper, Samson
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. (noun) bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit
obscene words for unacceptable behavior
"I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"

4. (noun) bull
a serious and ludicrous blunder
"he made a bad bull of the assignment"

5. (noun) bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

6. (noun) bull
an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later

7. (noun) Taurus, Bull
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus

8. (noun) Taurus, Taurus the Bull, Bull
the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20

9. (noun) bull's eye, bull
the center of a target

10. (noun) bull, papal bull
a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)

11. (verb) bull
mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle

12. (verb) bull, bull through
push or force
"He bulled through his demands"

13. (verb) bull
try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

14. (verb) talk through one's hat, bullshit, bull, fake
speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
"The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"

15. (verb) bull
advance in price
"stocks were bulling"

Definition of 'Bull'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) bull
a male cow

Definition of 'Bull'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Bull
of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce

2. (noun) Bull
the male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale

3. (noun) Bull
one who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action

4. (noun) Bull
taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac

5. (noun) Bull
a constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades

6. (noun) Bull
one who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5

7. (verb) Bull
to be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do

8. (verb) Bull
to endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4

9. (verb) Bull
a seal. See Bulla

10. (verb) Bull
a letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief

11. (verb) Bull
a grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility

Definitions of 'Bull'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Bull
an edict of the Pope, so called from a leaden seal attached to it.

Translation of 'Bull'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the male of the ox family and of the whale, walrus, elephant etc.
Afrikaans: bul	Arabic: ثَوْر، ذَكَرُ الفيل/ الحو	Bulgarian: мъжки бик, кит, морж, сло
Brazilian: touro	Czech: býk	German: der Bulle
Danish: tyr; han	Greek: ταύρος, αρσενικό ορισμένω	Spanish: toro
Estonian: pull, sõnn, isane	Farsi: نر	Finnish: sonni
French: mâle	Hebrew: פַר	Hindi: सांड़
Croatian: bik	Hungarian: bika	Indonesian: lembu jantan
Italian: maschio (dei grandi mammi	Japanese: 雄牛	Korean: 황소
Lithuanian: bulius, stambių gyvūnų pa	Latvian: bullis; (ziloņu, vaļu) tē	Malay: lembu jantan
Dutch: stier, bul	Norwegian: okse; hann (om hval osv.)	Polish: byk
Persian: نر	Pashto: نر	Portuguese: touro
Romanian: taur	Russian: самец (крупного животного	Slovak: býk
Slovenian: samec	Serbian: bik	Swedish: tjur
Thai: วัวตัวผู้หรือสัตว์ตัวผู้	Turkish: boğa; erkek...	Taiwanese: 公牛
Ukrainian: бугай, бик	Urdu: بیل ، سانڈ	Vietnamese: bò đực; con đực (cá voi,
Chinese: 公牛
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