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词汇 bull
释义 bull
noun
uk /bʊl/ us /bʊl/

bullnoun (ANIMAL)


B1[ C ]
a male cow, or the male of particular animals such as the elephant or the whale: 公牛;雄象;雄鲸
They did not see the sign by the gate saying "Beware of the bull".他们没有看见门旁边“当心公牛”的警示。
 
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The bull lowered its horns and charged.公牛俯下牛角发动进攻。
The bull tossed him up into the air.公牛把他顶到了半空中。
gored by a bull被公牛顶伤
a prize bull一流的公牛
Don't tell him you're a vegetarian - it's like a red rag to a bull.不要告诉他你是个素食主义者——这会让他极为不快。
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Names for the male & female of animals
billy goat
bitch
boar
boomer
buck
bullock
cob
doe
drake
drone
ewe
gelding
hind
mare
sire
sow
stag
stallion
steer
tigress

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Cattle & similar animals

bullnoun (FINANCE)


[ C ] finance & economics specialized
a person who buys shares in companies hoping the price will rise, so that they can be sold later at a profit(预期证券价格上涨的)买空者,多头
Compare
bearnoun(FINANCE)specialized
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stock markets
algo
anti-city
anti-dilution
anti-speculation
anti-speculative
arbitrageur
asset-stripping
broker
capital investment
carpetbagger
equity
gilt
grubstake
head fake
hedging
ICO
inconvertible
rentier
stockbroker belt
tender

bullnoun (NONSENSE)


[ U ]informal
complete nonsense or something that is not true: 胡说八道;吹牛
Don't give me that bull about not knowing the time.别跟我说你不知道时间,那纯粹是瞎说。
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Nonsense
a crock (of shit)idiom
babble
balderdash
balls
baloney
blah
blather
blither
double-talk
doublespeak
drivel
eyewash
flapdoodle
malarkey
moonshine
mumbo jumbo
nonsense
nonsensical
prattle
word salad

bullnoun (RELIGIOUS STATEMENT)


[ C ] religion specialized
another word forpapal bull
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Religious leaders & officials
anti-papal
apostolic
archbishop
archbishopric
archdeacon
clerically
confessor
curacy
curate
messiah
minister
ministry
muezzin
mullah
priestess
priestly
primate
rabbi
the Dalai Lama
the priesthood

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Rules & laws

Idioms


like a bull in a china shop
take the bull by the horns
bull
verb
uk /bʊl/ us /bʊl/
[ I+ adv/prep or T ]US
to move forward in a forceful, determined way, not allowing other people or things to stop you:
bull your wayHis entourage bulled its way through the crowd.
bull throughThe ship had to bull through thick pack ice to reach the harbour.
She bulled to the finish in time to get the bronze medal.
He bulled his way into the end zone for a touchdown.
I bulled my way up the slope with my heavy pack.
It's been six days since the hurricane bulled ashore.
The aircraft had to bull through bumpy weather.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Advancing and moving forward
advance
ballistically
beeline
come
come over
come up
cruise
gain
gain on someone/something
ghost
head
lead
make towards something/someone
proceed
progress
pull
push
run
skiddy
slide

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Moving firmly on foot
Strength of will and determination

bullverb (CLEAN)


[ T ] military UKspecialized
to make something, especially a soldier's boots, shine by putting polish(= a cream for cleaning things) on them then rubbing them using a piece of cloth and water:
The history of bulling boots can be traced back to the early days of the British Army when soldiers were expected to maintain their own equipment.
The soldiers' boots were beautifully bulled.
They spend hours just bulling your car.
Compare
polish
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Polishing & polishes
beeswax
buff
burnish
burnished
dubbin
finish
french-polish
polish
polish something up
polished
repolish
rosin
rub
rub something down
shine
unpolished

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Military training & ceremonies

Phrasal verb


bull something through

bull | American Dictionary


bull
noun
us/bʊl/

bullnoun (ANIMAL)


[ C ]
the male of various animals, such as cattle:
Our herd has two bulls and twenty cows.

bullnoun (NONSENSE)


[ U ]infml
nonsense or a lie:
Don’t give me that bull about not getting my message.

bull | Business English


bull
noun[ C ]
 FINANCE, STOCK MARKETuk /bʊl/us
someone who expects the price of shares, bonds, currency, etc. to increase, and who buys these investments in order to sell them later for a profit:
Bulls believe the US economy is beginning to pick up.
Compare
bear
→ bull market

Examples of bull


bull
There are some signs of the rasp on the bull's body, in the folds of the neck and under the eye (photograph 25).
Actually, all the dictionaries come close to the essential meaning, though they scatter their definitions like buckshot and don't hit the bull's eye.
Seconds later he was on the phone again, bulling into the next prospect.
The so-called "bull's eye" images were not estimated because the anatomy of the right ventricle is nonspherical.
In some cases, anticlericals painted churches red, heaped religious images on the bonfire and performed liturgical burlesques in which bulls were crowned bishop.
The man's beard, his eyelids, the bull's eyelid (photograph 25) and some of the channels in the hair show flat chiseling.
In bulls, the efficiency of in vitro fertilization is highly variable amongst individual sires.
Faeces were collected from 39 yearling bulls prior to and after treatment with oxytetracycline and from 44 untreated animals.
There might be three candidates or so left, bulling into clients.
In bulls, there is a positive correlation between spermaster formation at the time of fertilization and the bull's fertility.
Our results confirmed a considerable variability amongst the bulls tested in the response rate of spermatozoa to heparin during incubation.
Figure 9 shows the contrast between bucrania on the east wall and modelled bulls' head below a splayed figure on the west wall.
Like young bulls in the herd some of them had to try their strength against the old patriarch.
Markerassisted selection of candidate bulls for progeny testing programmes.
After the presentation of the champions, assisted by servants and constables, the bulls were brought into the square.
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Collocations withbull


bull

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bull rider
He became a bullrider at rodeos while he was still a teenager, but at the age of fifteen, he was stricken with polio.
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bull riding
Spurs used in bullriding do not have a fixed rowel, nor can they be sharpened.
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bull shark
It was found that the bullshark stayed at the mouth of the river independent of the salinity of the water.
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