bullet

«bullet» in Mova's school dictionary: a small piece of metal shot out of a gun — 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 (a bullet, bullets); bullet point

meaning for a pupil

1) A bullet is a small piece of metal shot out of a gun. tree →

2) A bullet point is a dot (•) in front of each item in a list. tree →

3) Bullet is used for things that are very fast, like a bullet train. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: guns and bullets are very dangerous; if you find one, don't touch it, and tell an adult. In school writing, bullet points make lists clear in notes and fact files. In everyday life a «bullet train» is a very fast train in Japan. Phrases: «bite the bullet» (do something hard you have been avoiding), «as fast as a bullet».

examples

• Write the facts as bullet points. tree →
• The bullet train travels very fast. tree →
• If you find a bullet or a gun, don't touch it — tell an adult. tree →
• Each bullet point should be short. tree →
• I bit the bullet and told Mum I broke the vase. tree →
• The police found a bullet at the scene. tree →
• He went like a bullet out of a gun. tree →

note

Countable: bullets. Spelled with double l and one t: bullet. A bullet is what flies out; the gun fires it. In stories, «bulletproof» means bullets cannot get through.

In the corpora

• Kingfishers plunge in beak first, and Japan's bullet train was given a kingfisher-shaped nose to make it quieter.
• The bullet ant has one of the most painful insect stings known, and the pain can last for many hours.
• The bullet ant of South America has one of the most painful stings of any insect.
• Tables, captions, headings and bullet points are part of a text and can hold answers.
• Headings and bullet points in non-fiction make facts quick to find and easy to read.

Trees and pragmatics

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