bull

v. cause or attempt to cause prices to rise (in the stock exchange); push, shove

n. male bovine; male ox; male elephant; (Slang) nonsense, lies; (Slang) police officer; Papal bull, official Papal letter; harassment (Military); large and strong man; 2nd sign of the zodiac; center of a target; (Stock Exchange) one who believes that market prices will rise and buys securities in expectation of rising prices

n. Taurus, 2nd sign of the zodiac

adj. big and strong like a bull; male; of or pertaining a bull, that resembles a bull; having to do with a successive trend of increase in prices

A Bull is an adult male of various large animal species including elk, moose, bovines (esp. cattle), elephants, whales, seals, and sea lions.Bull may also refer to:a man who has sex with a woman in another relationship, thus making the other man a cuckold (See also affair)the senior most Ensign (rank) in a United States Navy command; also called the "Bull Ensign"Papal bull, a solemn decree from the PopeBull (mythology), worship of the Sacred Bull throughout the ancient worldBull market, an economic trendIrish bull, a ludicrous, incongruent or logically absurd statementGroupe Bull the French computer companyBull (TV series), an original show on the TNT Network Bull is the name of:Amos Bad Heart Bull, Oglala Lakota artist and historianDixie Bull, English sea captain and pirateJohn Bull (disambiguation)John Bull (composer), a Welsh composer, musician, and organ builder.Ole Bull, a Norwegian violinistOlaf Bull, a Norwegian poetFredrik Rosing Bull, a Norwegian engineerGerald Bull, an engineer who developed long range artilleryHedley Bull, a political scientist and major contributor to the English School of international relationsSitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Sioux medicine man and leaderWhite Bull, a Sioux leaderBull Shannon, a character played by Richard Moll on the television program Night CourtBull Buchanan, ring name of professional wrestler Barry Buchanan USS Bull, two U.S. Navy shipsGroupe Bull, a French computer company
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Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (also Pierre Bulliard, ca. 1742 in Aubepierre EN Barrois, strike Marne - 26 September 1793 in Paris) was a French physician and botanist.Bulliard studied in Langres, afterwards in Clairvaux and in Paris. There he also practiced as a physician.Bulliard’s Dictionnaire Elémentaire de Botanique (1783) contributed to the spreading and consolidation of botanical terminology and the Linné system. It was especially important in the area of the mycology, containing descriptions of 393 out of 602 board mushrooms.
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Noun
1. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
(synonym) Taurus
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
(classification) astrology, star divination
2. the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
(synonym) Taurus, Taurus the Bull
(hypernym) sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house

Noun
1. uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
(hypernym) cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus
(hyponym) bullock
(part-meronym) horn
2. a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
(synonym) bruiser, strapper, Samson
(hypernym) man, adult male
3. obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"
(synonym) bullshit, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit
(hypernym) bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash
(derivation) bullshit, fake
(classification) obscenity, vulgarism, dirty word
4. a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"
(hypernym) blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
5. uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
(synonym) cop, copper, fuzz, pig
(hypernym) policeman, police officer, officer
(classification) colloquialism
6. an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
(antonym) bear
(hypernym) investor
7. the center of a target
(synonym) bull's eye
(hypernym) center, centre, midpoint
(part-holonym) target, mark
8. a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
(synonym) papal bull
(hypernym) decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript
9. mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
(hypernym) placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
Verb
1. push or force; "He bulled through his demands"
(synonym) bull through
(hypernym) push, bear on
2. try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
(hypernym) speculate, job
(classification) investing, investment
3. talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
(synonym) bullshit, fake
(hypernym) feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
(derivation) bullshit, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit
4. advance in price; "stocks were bulling"
(hypernym) rise, go up, climb

n. Bull, John Bull, typical Englishman; the English people

n. Bull; family name; John Bull, typical Englishman; the English people