bull

«bull» in Mova's school dictionary: an adult male cow — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (bull, bulls)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bull is an adult male cow. tree →

2) A bull can also be the male of some other big animals, such as elephants, whales and seals. tree →

3) The bull's-eye is the centre of a target. tree →

sense in the lessons

On the farm a bull is the male, a cow is the female and a calf is the baby. In countryside safety lessons: never enter a field with a bull — bulls can charge and are very dangerous. In games and sport the bull's-eye scores most. Phrases: bull's-eye, like a bull in a china shop (clumsy), take the bull by the horns (face a problem bravely).

examples

• The bull stood alone in the field. tree →
• A sign said «Beware of the bull». tree →
• The farmer keeps one bull and many cows. tree →
• A bull elephant can be very large. tree →
• The arrow hit the bull's-eye. tree →
• He ran like a bull in a china shop. tree →
• Take the bull by the horns and ask her. tree →

note

Countable noun (bulls). Male cow = bull, female = cow, baby = calf, all together = cattle. Myth: bulls do not get angry at the colour red — they are colour-blind to red; they react to the movement of the cape. Safety: keep out of fields with bulls.

In the corpora

• Bulls cannot see red well; a bull charges at the movement of the cape, and red is just the traditional colour.
• Cartoons get a lot wrong: a bull does not hate the colour red, and a goat does not munch tin cans.
• The European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, is the heaviest land animal in Europe; a big bull weighs about 900 kilograms.
• You never enter a field with a bull in it.
• Cows with calves, bulls and horses are big and strong, and every year people are seriously hurt or killed by farm animals.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bull» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.