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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#m1)

2) A bull can also be the male of some other big animals, such as elephants, whales and seals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#m2)

3) The bull's-eye is the centre of a target. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#x1)
- A sign said «Beware of the bull». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#x2)
- The farmer keeps one bull and many cows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#x3)
- A bull elephant can be very large. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#x4)
- The arrow hit the bull's-eye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#x5)
- He ran like a bull in a china shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#x6)
- Take the bull by the horns and ask her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/13/)
- [Cartoons get a lot wrong: a bull does not hate the colour red, and a goat does not munch tin cans.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/5/)
- [The European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, is the heaviest land animal in Europe; a big bull weighs about 900 kilograms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears/6/)
- [You never enter a field with a bull in it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/67-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals/19/)
- [Cows with calves, bulls and horses are big and strong, and every year people are seriously hurt or killed by farm animals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bull» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bull/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.