bull vs minute

bull

verb
  • To lie, to tell untruths. 

  • To polish boots to a high shine. 

  • To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull. 

  • To mate with (a cow or heifer). 

  • To endeavour to raise prices in. 

  • To force oneself (in a particular direction). 

  • To mock; to cheat. 

  • To endeavour to raise the market price of. 

adj
  • Large and strong, like a bull. 

  • Adult male. 

  • Stupid. 

  • Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear). 

noun
  • A policeman. 

  • The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie. 

  • Any adult male bovine. 

  • Beef. 

  • Specifically, one that is uncastrated. 

  • An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals. 

  • A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both. 

  • An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices. 

  • A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age. 

  • An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. 

  • A lie. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • An elderly lesbian. 

  • A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope. 

  • A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope. 

  • A large, strong man. 

  • Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard. 

  • A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”) 

minute

adj
  • Very small. 

  • Very careful and exact, giving small details. 

noun
  • A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. 

  • An old coin, a half farthing. 

  • A nautical or a geographic mile. 

  • A short but unspecified time period. 

  • A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting. 

  • A point in time; a moment. 

  • A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). 

  • A fixed part of a module. 

  • A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network. 

  • A while or a long unspecified period of time 

verb
  • To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. 

  • Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting. 

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