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

2) A bullet point is a dot (•) in front of each item in a list. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullet/#m2)

3) Bullet is used for things that are very fast, like a bullet train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullet/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullet/#x1)
- The bullet train travels very fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullet/#x2)
- If you find a bullet or a gun, don't touch it — tell an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullet/#x3)
- Each bullet point should be short. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullet/#x4)
- I bit the bullet and told Mum I broke the vase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullet/#x5)
- The police found a bullet at the scene. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullet/#x6)
- He went like a bullet out of a gun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullet/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/16/)
- [The bullet ant has one of the most painful insect stings known, and the pain can last for many hours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/8/)
- [The bullet ant of South America has one of the most painful stings of any insect.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/13/)
- [Tables, captions, headings and bullet points are part of a text and can hold answers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/21/)
- [Headings and bullet points in non-fiction make facts quick to find and easy to read.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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