Sinhala Dictionary definitions for bull
bull 🔊 /bʊˈl/
bull : වසභ
bull : වෘෂභ
bull : උසබා
bull : ඔසබ
bull : උසභ
bull : වැහැප්
bull : ජාවාරම්කාරයා
bull : කථාවෙහි පරස්පරවිරෝධ වාක්ය
bull : සුරතල් මසු
bull : කථාවේ පරස්පර විරෝධී වාක්යය
bull : වසබ
bull : අලියා ආදීන්ගේ පිරිමි සතා
bull : ගොනා
bull : වෘෂභයා
bull : ගැනුම් ජාවාරම්කාරයා
bull definition
Noun.
- The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
- One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
- Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
- A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
- One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
Adjective. Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
Intransitive verb.
- To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
- A seal. See Bulla.
- A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
- A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
Transitive verb. To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
