Definizione monolingua

bullet

bullet (third-person singular simple present bullets, present participle bulleting, simple past and past participle bulleted)

1. (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
   • 2000, Merriam-Webster, Inc, Merriam-Websters collegiate encyclopedia?, page x:

     For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we have bulleted ""World Wide Web""

   • 2004, Richard P. Pohanish, HazMat data: for first response, transportation, storage, and security?, page x:

     The author has bulleted this section to make it easier to read and included important notes and warnings.

   • 2008, Deanna Davis, The law of attraction in action, page 42:

     I had mind-mapped everything from my business to my baby girls needs and had bulleted my talking points, brownie points, and breaking points for just about every life area

2. (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.

   Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.

3. (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.

   He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.

bullet (plural bullets)

1. A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
2. Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
3. (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, (•), often used for marking items in a list. (see also bulleted)
4. (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the explosive charge, etc.
5. (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
6. A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

   Johns not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday.

7. (slang) One year of prison time
8. (slang) An ace (the playing card).
9. (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
   • 2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, BBC:

     Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesnys net with the Pole grasping at thin air.

10. (in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).

    bullet train

    bullet chess

Definizione dizionario bullet

palla

pallottola

	punto elenco
	A typographical symbol, such as a filled or empty circle, diamond, box, or asterisk, used to set off a small block of text or each item in a list.

pallino

proiettile

zolla

Altri significati:

lost (truant) messenger

(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, •, often used for marking items in a list. (see also bulleted)

(slang) An ace (the playing card).

(in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).

A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

(intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.

bullet (from a rifle)

typography: printed symbol in the form of a solid circle

(banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.

(transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.

projectile

(figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.

A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.

(slang) One year of prison time

The ammunition for a sling or slingshot.

(informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the explosive charge, etc.

(transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.