| bull | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. bull | uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle. |
| ~ horn | one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates. |
| ~ bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen | domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age.; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"; "a team of oxen" |
| ~ bullock | young bull. |
| n. (person) | 2. bruiser, bull, samson, strapper | 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" |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| n. (communication) | 3. bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, irish bull, shit | obscene words for unacceptable behavior.; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" |
| ~ buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot, bunk | unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements). |
| ~ dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, filth, smut | an offensive or indecent word or phrase. |
| n. (act) | 4. bull | a serious and ludicrous blunder.; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" |
| ~ blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, bloomer, fuckup, pratfall | an embarrassing mistake. |
| n. (person) | 5. bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig | uncomplimentary terms for a policeman. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ police officer, policeman, officer | a member of a police force.; "it was an accident, officer" |
| n. (person) | 6. bull | an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later. |
| ~ investor | someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns. |
| n. (person) | 7. bull, taurus | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ astrology, star divination | a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon. |
| n. (location) | 8. bull, taurus, taurus the bull | the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20. |
| ~ mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, house | (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided. |
| n. (location) | 9. bull, bull's eye | the center of a target. |
| ~ target, mark | a reference point to shoot at.; "his arrow hit the mark" |
| ~ midpoint, centre, center | a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure. |
| n. (communication) | 10. bull, papal bull | a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla). |
| ~ decree, fiat, edict, rescript, order | a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).; "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" |
| n. (animal) | 11. bull | mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle. |
| ~ eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal | mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials. |
| v. (social) | 12. bull, bull through | push or force.; "He bulled through his demands" |
| ~ push, bear on | press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action.; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate" |
| v. (possession) | 13. bull | try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying. |
| ~ investing, investment | the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit. |
| ~ bull | advance in price.; "stocks were bulling" |
| ~ job, speculate | invest at a risk.; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating" |
| v. (communication) | 14. bull, bullshit, fake, talk through one's hat | speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths.; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it" |
| ~ dissemble, feign, pretend, sham, affect | make believe with the intent to deceive.; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" |
| v. (change) | 15. bull | advance in price.; "stocks were bulling" |
| ~ go up, rise, climb | increase in value or to a higher point.; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year" |
| ~ bull | try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying. |
| ram | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. ram, random access memory, random memory, random-access memory, read/write memory | the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible. |
| ~ buffer storage, buffer store, buffer | (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system. |
| ~ magnetic core, core | (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories.; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit" |
| ~ core memory, magnetic core memory | (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores; now superseded by semiconductor memories. |
| ~ ram disk | (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors.; "access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off" |
| ~ volatile storage | computer storage that is erased when the power is turned off. |
| n. (person) | 2. aries, ram | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ astrology, star divination | a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon. |
| n. (location) | 3. aries, aries the ram, ram | the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19. |
| ~ mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, house | (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. ram | a tool for driving or forcing something by impact. |
| ~ battering ram | a ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings. |
| ~ head | the striking part of a tool.; "the head of the hammer" |
| ~ rammer | a tool for driving something with force. |
| ~ tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
| n. (animal) | 5. ram, tup | uncastrated adult male sheep.; "a British term is `tup'" |
| ~ horn | one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates. |
| ~ sheep | woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat. |
| v. (contact) | 6. pound, ram, ram down | strike or drive against with a heavy impact.; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door" |
| ~ thrust | push forcefully.; "He thrust his chin forward" |
| v. (contact) | 7. drive, force, ram | force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically.; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" |
| ~ toenail, toe | drive obliquely.; "toe a nail" |
| ~ drive | compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment.; "She finally drove him to change jobs" |
| ~ thrust | push forcefully.; "He thrust his chin forward" |
| ~ drive | to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly.; "She is driven by her passion" |
| v. (contact) | 8. crash, ram | undergo damage or destruction on impact.; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" |
| ~ clash, collide | crash together with violent impact.; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed" |
| v. (contact) | 9. chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram, wad | crowd or pack to capacity.; "the theater was jampacked" |
| ~ stuff | cram into a cavity.; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets" |
| ~ cram | put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled.; "cram books into the suitcase" |
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