bully vs limit

bully

noun
  • A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege. 

  • A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome. 

  • The small scrum in the Eton College field game. 

  • A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off. 

  • A hired thug. 

  • A miner's hammer. 

  • A sex worker’s minder. 

  • A companion; mate (male or female). 

  • Bully beef. 

  • Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies. , Gobiomorphus cotidianus]] 

intj
  • Well done! 

verb
  • To intimidate (someone) as a bully. 

  • To act aggressively towards. 

adj
  • Very good. 

limit

noun
  • A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. 

  • A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. 

  • The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely. 

  • A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic. 

  • Fixed limit. 

  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. 

  • The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race. 

  • A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). 

  • Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

verb
  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. 

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

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