Bull vs Turtle - What's the difference?

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As proper nouns the difference between bull and turtle

is that bull is while turtle is a river in saskatchewan, canada.

bull

English

(wikipedia bull)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bul, bule, from (etyl) . More at blow.

Noun

(en noun)

An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.

#Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

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

A large, strong man.

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

(lb) A policeman.

*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

*1859 ,

*:Half-a-crown'' is known as an (alderman), (half a bull), (half a tusheroon), and a (madza caroon); whilst a ''crown'' piece, or ''five shillings , may be called either a (bull), or a (caroon), or a (cartwheel), or a (coachwheel), or a (thick-un), or a (tusheroon).

A man.

Synonyms

* guy, dude, bro, cat * cop, copper, pig (derogatory''), rozzer (''British ). See also

Antonyms

* bear

Coordinate terms

* cow, ox, calf, steer

Adjective

(-)

Large and strong, like a bull.

Of large mammals, male.

a bull elephant

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

Synonyms

* (large and strong) beefy, hunky, robust * (male): male

Antonyms

* (large and strong): feeble, puny, weak * (male): female * (of a market): bear

Verb

To force oneself (in a particular direction).

He bulled his way in .

To lie, to tell untruths.

To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

(UK, military) To polish boots to a high shine.

(finance) To endeavour to raise the market price of.

to bull railroad bonds

(finance) To endeavour to raise prices in.

to bull the market

Derived terms

* bulldog * bulldozer * bulldust * bullfrog * bullhorn * bull in a china shop * bullseye * bullshit * bull wheel * shoot the bull * take the bull by the horns

Etymology 2

From (etyl) bulle'', from (etyl) ''bulle'', from Low (etyl) ''bulla

Noun

(en noun)

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

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

Verb

(en verb)

to publish in a Papal bull

Etymology 3

From (etyl) . Popularly associated with (bullshit).

Noun

(-)

A lie.

(euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.

Synonyms

* (nonsense) See also

Verb

(en verb)

to mock, cheat

Etymology 4

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

a bubble

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turtle

English

(wikipedia turtle)

Etymology 1

Modification of (etyl) tortue (probably under the influence of (turtledove)). See (tortoise) for more.

Noun

(en noun)

Any land or marine reptile of the order (l), characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body.

(Australia, British) A sea turtle.

(military) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.

(computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.

(computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.

* 1997 , Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing

Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.

(printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.

Synonyms

* (l) * (l)

Derived terms

* African helmeted turtle * Afro-American sideneck turtle * Alabama red-bellied turtle * alligator turtle, alligator-turtle * American turtle * Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles * Arakan forest turtle * Australian short-necked turtle * Austro-American sideneck turtle * black marsh turtle * black turtle bean * Blanding's turtle * bog turtle * box turtle, box-turtle * chicken turtle, chicken-turtle * common snakeneck turtle * cooter turtle * diamond-backed turtle * dragon turtle * eastern long-neck turtle * Fitzroy River turtle * flatback turtle * Florida redbelly turtle * Fly River turtle * golden coin turtle * gopher turtle * greaved turtle * Greenland turtle * green turtle * have a turtle's head * hawk-billed turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle * horned turtle * land turtle * leaf turtle * leather turtle * leatherback turtle * leather-turtle * leathery turtle * loggerhead turtle, logger-headed turtle * lyre turtle * Madagascan big-headed turtle * map turtle * marine turtle * marsh turtle * mata mata turtle, matamata turtle * Mary River turtle * mock turtle * mock turtle soup * mud turtle * musk turtle * New Guinea snakeneck turtle * Olive Ridley turtle * painted turtle * pancake turtle * pig-nosed turtle, pig-nose turtle, pignose turtle * pitted-shelled turtle * plateless turtle * Plymouth redbelly turtle * pond turtle * purple turtler * red-bellied turtle * river turtle * roofed turtle * sea turtle, sea-turtle * side-necked turtle * silver stater with a turtle * snake-eating turtle * snake-necked turtle * snapping turtle, snapping-turtle * soft-shelled turtle, soft-shell turtle, softshell turtle * spiny turtle * spotted turtle * toad-headed turtle * twisted-necked turtle * tortoise-shell turtle * trunk turtle, trunk-turtle * turn the turtle * turn turtle * turning turtles * turtle-back, turtleback * turtle bean * turtleburger * turtle-corral * turtle cowrie, turtle cowry * turtle-crab * turtle-crawl * turtle-deck * turtledom * turtle-egging * turtle excluder device * turtle-footed * turtle-frolic * turtle graphics * turtle grass, turtle-grass * turtle-head, turtlehead * turtle hull * turtle-insect * turtle-kraal * turtle neck, turtle-neck, turtleneck * turtle peg, turtle-peg * turtle-press * turtler * turtle racing * turtles all the way down * turtle shell * turtle ship * turtle soup * turtle stone * turtle-shell * turtle-soup * turtle-stone * turtlet * turtle trade * turtle-twine * turtling * turtly * water turtle * western swamp turtle * wood turtle

Verb

(turtl)

To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.

* 1919 , Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32?, page 48

Were speeding when car turtled' Auto crashed into curb and ' turtled .

To turn and swim upside down.

* 2009 , Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering? , page 149

I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.

To hunt turtles, especially in the water.

* 1973 , Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians , page 153

Of these, 80 turtled' (65%), 26 hunted and ' turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).

(video games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.

Etymology 2

(etyl) turtla, ultimately from (etyl) , of imitative origin.

Noun

(en noun)

A turtle dove.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:

The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck .

Derived terms

* turtle-bird * turtle dove, turtle-dove, turtledove * turtleish, turtlish * turtleise, turtlise, turtleize, turtlize