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Main Entry:	bullet [bool-it] Show IPA/ˈbʊlɪt/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	small missile
Synonyms:	ammo, ammunition, ball, bolt, cap, cartridge, dose, lead, love letter, pellet, projectile, rocket, round, shot, slug, trajectile

Main Entry:	hurry
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	act, move speedily
Synonyms:	accelerate, barrel, be quick, beeline, bestir, breeze, bullet, burst, bustle, dash, dig in, drive, expedite, fleet, flit, fly, get a move on, go like lightning, goad, haste, hasten, hurry up, hustle, jog, lose no time, make haste, make short work of, make time, make tracks, nip, push, quicken, race, rip, rocket, roll, run, rush, sally, scoot, scurry, shake a leg, smoke, speed, speed up, spur, step on gas, step on it, turn on steam, urge, whirl, whish, whisk, whiz, zip
Antonyms:	dally, dawdle, delay, procrastinate, rest, slow, stall, wait

Main Entry:	missile
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	projectile weapon
Synonyms:	MX, ammunition, arrow, bat, bird, bolt, bomb, bullet*, cartridge, dart, pellet, projectile, rocket, shot, stealth, trajectile
Notes:	a missile is a whole vehicle ready for launching; a rocket is a type of engine that powers a missile

* = informal/non-formal usage

Example Sentences

Every day, the papers are full of victims, bodies lying out in grotesque poses with bullet wounds all about.

She should also have bullet points under relevant positions that highlight where and how she's used the skills.

How he took the bullet that killed him was disputed-in crossfire, the confusion of battle, or in what amounted to an execution.

Every day, the papers are full of victims, bodies lying out in grotesque poses with bullet wounds all about.

She should also have bullet points under relevant positions that highlight where and how she's used the skills.

How he took the bullet that killed him was disputed-in crossfire, the confusion of battle, or in what amounted to an execution.

Many of the bullet trains now brake at the first seismic tremor.

Mothers often say they would step in front of a bullet to save their child's life.

After examining the patient, the doctors concurred that it was not possible to remove the bullet.

Just about every text has this example of shooting a bullet horizontally and dropping a bullet from the same height.

He also revealed that some fragments of the bullet remained in her brain and could not be safely removed.

It sticks to one page, it uses bullet points and boldface type effectively, and is well spaced.

No magic bullet accounts for it-not even the tropical soyabean, which comes closest.

It features gold plated bullet-proof windows, tungsten and white gold gauges and bullet proof tires.

Nuclear power was once thought of as a silver bullet that would cure all pollution problems.

He died, apparently of bullet wounds to the head and abdomen, shortly before sunrise the next day.

Conservation of angular momentum with a bullet hitting a merry go round.

The résumé looks much better with the addition of bullet points and the inclusion of relevant employment experience.

One response to this line of thinking is to say, phew, the world economy dodged a bullet.

The new formation is known as the bullet cluster, because the gas forms a bullet shape in the smaller colliding cluster.

Clearly, these bullet points represent an overarching, general strategy.

Shown here is a high-speed video in his lab of a bullet piercing eggs.

Bullet train travel is much less stressful than air or car travel.

When it comes to dealing with climate change, some people are looking for a silver bullet.

People end up with bullet points that contradict one another, and no one notices.

And yet a one-ounce bird can hit a moving plane with the force of a bullet.

The bullet slams into the base of the now-huge pyre and discharges its deadly cargo into the beast's fiery heart.

With each job use bullet points to describe what you did.

With dozens of bullet and shrapnel wounds, he knew he was lucky to have survived.

Until it zaps you with a laser, and shoots you with pepper spray bullet.

If you have to process once or twice yearly, it may be worth it to bite the bullet and buy the full kit.

Really, about half of the bullet points above could be negatives depending on your perspective.

Gross compiles a list of bullet points the student can use on his or her résumé.

There, a sergeant was shot last week, and one bullet changed everything.

Would it be more efficient to use sentence bullet points in the.

California's lead bullet ban protects condors and other wildlife, but its biggest beneficiaries may be humans.

Malaysia announced this week that it will put on hold the proposed bullet train.

The funds for high-speed rail in the stimulus package will nonetheless not be enough to pay for a single bullet train.

Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet to solve this horrendous environmental problem.

Please do not write in bullet points, especially if you're in a field that cares about writing.

New owners who have grown up with the risk of imminent death from a bomb or bullet see roads as an extension of the battlefield.

They discovered bullet shell casings on the ground and learned of a recent exchange of gunfire between thieves and a guard.

If one is killed by a bullet aimed or simply a misfire, dead is dead.

Five or six bullet points, reinforced when you saw him with vigorous hand-chops, summed up any argument.

Stories had long held that the captain carried such a coin as a good-luck piece after it had saved him from death by a bullet.

People really believe that antibiotics are a magic bullet that will help any infection.

You've got to calculate wind resistance, distance, bullet trajectory.

It's hard for me to limit my interest to two or three bullet points.

Her zealous pursuit of counterfeit medicines nearly earned her a bullet in the head, leaving instead a hole in her headdress.

Cap-and-trade legislation that sets a price on carbon emissions would not be a magic bullet for solar either.

You've got to calculate wind resistance, distance, bullet trajectory and other.

The man beside him, on the point of jumping off, had taken a bullet in the face and gone under.

Hundreds of bullet scars on the church's walls still testify to the fury of the ensuing fight.

He showed videos of a calculus textbook stopping a pistol bullet, but not stopping a rifle bullet.

That's why pro gator hunters carry a bang stick, essentially a bullet.

Not so much powerpoint slides loaded with text, but images and short bullet points.

One innocent bystander was injured by a rebel bullet and then beaten up by government soldiers as he sought treatment.

The same may be true with bullet and tool-mark striations.

But the bullet punctured one of my lungs, which collapsed, and breathing was difficult.

The bullet severed the optic nerve in his right eye before shattering his jaw and then lodging in his neck near his jugular vein.

In any form, ethanol is far from being a silver bullet for environmental and energy woes, however.

Its three-line display, bullet antenna and matte black finish do little to attract the eye.

Of course, if all you are going to do is present a list of bullet points, then go with the handout.

It is widely accepted that the best way to stop a zombie is by destroying its brain with a bullet to the head.

If you're going to do something about climate change, there is not one silver bullet.

I've seen more than a few bearing multiple bullet wounds.

He thinks he dodged a bullet here, because the two weeks of training is unpaid and they can still decline to hire you after that.

And suggesting to someone that they bite the bullet and pitch in for the dept during the summer in an emergency is sound advice.

Main Entry:	munitions
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	ammunition
Synonyms:	ammo, armament, arsenal, bombs, bullets, explosives, grenades, gunpowder, missiles, shells, torpedos, weapons

Main Entry:	round
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	unit of ammunition
Synonyms:	bullet, cartridge, charge, discharge, load, shell, shot

Main Entry:	shot
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	discharge; ammunition
Synonyms:	ball, buckshot, bullet, dart, lead, lob, missile, pellet, projectile, slug, throw
Antonyms:	backfire

Main Entry:	whisk
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	brush quickly; hasten
Synonyms:	barrel, bullet, dart, dash, flick, flit, flutter, fly, hurry, race, rush, shoot, speed, sweep, tear, whip, whiz, wipe, zip

Main Entry:	whiz
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	move quickly by
Synonyms:	bullet, buzz, dart, flit, fly, hiss, hum, hurry, hurtle, race, speed, swish, whir, whirl, whisk, whoosh, zip
Antonyms:	decelerate

Main Entry:	reference mark
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	typographical symbol
Synonyms:	asterisk, bullet, caret, dagger, diacritical mark, ditto, double dagger, leaders, punctuation, punctuation mark, reference

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