bullet vs conch

bullet

noun
  • A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate. 

  • chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.) 

  • A young or little bull; a male calf. 

  • An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc. 

  • One year of prison time. 

  • A plumb or sinker. 

  • An ace (the playing card). 

  • A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed. 

  • Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use. 

  • A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition. 

  • Very fast (speedy). 

  • Anything that is projected extremely fast. 

  • A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings. 

  • A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment. 

  • A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list. 

  • The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling. 

verb
  • To make a shot, especially with great speed. 

  • To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it. 

  • To speed, like a bullet. 

conch

noun
  • Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”) 

  • A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell. 

  • A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet. 

  • The shell of this sea animal. 

  • The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself. 

verb
  • To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers. 

  • To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral. 

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