| slovo | definícia |
bullets
(encz) | bullets,kulky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
bullets
(encz) | bullets,nájezdy [sport.] v hokeji, při nerozhodném stavu po prodloužené
hře Pino |
bullets
(gcide) | Ball \Ball\ (b[add]l), n. [OE. bal, balle; akin to OHG. balla,
palla, G. ball, Icel. b["o]llr, ball; cf. F. balle. Cf. 1st
Bale, n., Pallmall.]
1. Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as,
a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
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2. A spherical body of any substance or size used to play
with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
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3. A general name for games in which a ball is thrown,
kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
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4. Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of
lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a
cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as,
powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms
are commonly called bullets.
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5. (Pyrotechnics & Mil.) A flaming, roundish body shot into
the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst
and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench;
as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
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6. (Print.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle
called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for
inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
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7. A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body;
as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
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8. (Far.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly
given to horses; a bolus. --White.
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9. The globe or earth. --Pope.
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Move round the dark terrestrial ball. --Addison.
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10. (Baseball) A pitched ball, not struck at by the batter,
which fails to pass over the home plate at a height not
greater than the batter's shoulder nor less than his knee
(i.e. it is outside the strike zone). If the pitcher
pitches four balls before three strikes are called, the
batter advances to first base, and the action of pitching
four balls is called a walk.
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10. a testicle; usually used in the plural. [vulgar]
[PJC]
11. pl. courage; nerve. [vulgar]
[PJC]
Ball and socket joint, a joint in which a ball moves within
a socket, so as to admit of motion in every direction
within certain limits.
Ball bearings, a mechanical device for lessening the
friction of axle bearings by means of small loose metal
balls.
Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a ball, as
distinguished from a blank cartridge, containing only
powder.
Ball cock, a faucet or valve which is opened or closed by
the fall or rise of a ball floating in water at the end of
a lever.
Ball gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits
lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining
the pivot in its socket. --Knight.
Ball lever, the lever used in a ball cock.
Ball of the eye, the eye itself, as distinguished from its
lids and socket; -- formerly, the pupil of the eye.
Ball valve (Mach.), a contrivance by which a ball, placed
in a circular cup with a hole in its bottom, operates as a
valve.
Ball vein (Mining), a sort of iron ore, found in loose
masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles.
Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign
or shop.
on the ball alert; competent and knowledgeable.
to carry the ball to carry on the task; to assume the
responsibility.
to drop the ball to fail to perform as expected; to fail to
live up to a responsibility.
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Syn: See Globe.
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sweat bullets
(encz) | sweat bullets,být nervózní [id.] over something - kvůli něčemu Pino |
hollow-nosed bullets
(gcide) | Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), n.; pl. Men (m[e^]n). [AS. mann, man,
monn, mon; akin to OS., D., & OHG. man, G. mann, Icel.
ma[eth]r, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth. manna, Skr.
manu, manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind.
[root]104. Cf. Minx a pert girl.]
1. A human being; -- opposed to beast.
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These men went about wide, and man found they none,
But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. --R.
of Glouc.
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The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to
him as it doth to me. --Shak.
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'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast! --W. C.
Fields
[PJC]
2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person,
as distinguished from a woman or a child.
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When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I
Cor. xiii. 11.
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Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.
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3. The human race; mankind.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i.
26.
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The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope.
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4. The male portion of the human race.
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Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than
man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.
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5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities
of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
--Shak.
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This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the
elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world "This was a man!" --Shak.
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6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
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Like master, like man. --Old Proverb.
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The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered,
and holding up his hands between those of his lord,
professed that he did become his man from that day
forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
--Blackstone.
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7. A term of familiar address at one time implying on the
part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,
or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! In the
latter half of the 20th century it became used in a
broader sense as simply a familiar and informal form of
address, but is not used in business or formal situations;
as, hey, man! You want to go to a movie tonight?.
[Informal]
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8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
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I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of
Com. Prayer.
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every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.
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9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of
the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
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A man can not make him laugh. --Shak.
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A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all
they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum
of a Roman ship. --Addison.
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10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or
draughts, are played.
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Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a
separate adjective, its sense being usually
self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater,
man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating,
manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man
midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped,
manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man
worship, etc.
Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the
male sex having a business which pertains to the thing
spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound;
ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman,
fireman, repairman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where
the combination is not familiar, or where some specific
meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used
as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as,
apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man
(as distinguished from woodman).
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Man ape (Zool.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.
Man at arms, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries for a soldier fully armed.
Man engine, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering
people through considerable distances; specifically
(Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend
in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the
shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod
which has an up and down motion equal to the distance
between the successive landings. A man steps from a
landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next
landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by
successive stages.
Man Friday, a person wholly subservient to the will of
another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.
Man of straw, a puppet; one who is controlled by others;
also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.
Man-of-the earth (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipomoea
pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the
morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous
root.
Man of sin (Script.), one who is the embodiment of evil,
whose coming is represented (--2 Thess. ii. 3) as
preceding the second coming of Christ. [A Hebraistic
expression]
Man of war.
(a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak.
(b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
(c) See Portuguese man-of-war under man-of-war and
also see Physalia.
Man-stopping bullet (Mil.), a bullet which will produce a
sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge;
specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand
when striking the human body, producing a severe wound
which is also difficult to treat medically. Types of
bullets called hollow-nosed bullets, {soft-nosed
bullets} and hollow-point bullets are classed as
man-stopping. The dumdum bullet or dumdum is another
well-known variety. Such bullets were originally designed
for wars with savage tribes.
great man, a man[2] who has become prominent due to
substantial and widely admired contributions to social or
intellectual endeavors; as, Einstein was one of the great
men of the twentieth century.
To be one's own man, to have command of one's self; not to
be subject to another.
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hollow-point bullets
(gcide) | Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), n.; pl. Men (m[e^]n). [AS. mann, man,
monn, mon; akin to OS., D., & OHG. man, G. mann, Icel.
ma[eth]r, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth. manna, Skr.
manu, manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind.
[root]104. Cf. Minx a pert girl.]
1. A human being; -- opposed to beast.
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These men went about wide, and man found they none,
But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. --R.
of Glouc.
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The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to
him as it doth to me. --Shak.
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'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast! --W. C.
Fields
[PJC]
2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person,
as distinguished from a woman or a child.
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When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I
Cor. xiii. 11.
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Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.
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3. The human race; mankind.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i.
26.
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The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope.
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4. The male portion of the human race.
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Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than
man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]
5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities
of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
--Shak.
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This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the
elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world "This was a man!" --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
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Like master, like man. --Old Proverb.
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The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered,
and holding up his hands between those of his lord,
professed that he did become his man from that day
forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
--Blackstone.
[1913 Webster]
7. A term of familiar address at one time implying on the
part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,
or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! In the
latter half of the 20th century it became used in a
broader sense as simply a familiar and informal form of
address, but is not used in business or formal situations;
as, hey, man! You want to go to a movie tonight?.
[Informal]
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8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
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I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of
Com. Prayer.
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every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of
the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
[1913 Webster]
A man can not make him laugh. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all
they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum
of a Roman ship. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or
draughts, are played.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a
separate adjective, its sense being usually
self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater,
man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating,
manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man
midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped,
manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man
worship, etc.
Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the
male sex having a business which pertains to the thing
spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound;
ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman,
fireman, repairman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where
the combination is not familiar, or where some specific
meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used
as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as,
apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man
(as distinguished from woodman).
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Man ape (Zool.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.
Man at arms, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries for a soldier fully armed.
Man engine, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering
people through considerable distances; specifically
(Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend
in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the
shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod
which has an up and down motion equal to the distance
between the successive landings. A man steps from a
landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next
landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by
successive stages.
Man Friday, a person wholly subservient to the will of
another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.
Man of straw, a puppet; one who is controlled by others;
also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.
Man-of-the earth (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipomoea
pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the
morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous
root.
Man of sin (Script.), one who is the embodiment of evil,
whose coming is represented (--2 Thess. ii. 3) as
preceding the second coming of Christ. [A Hebraistic
expression]
Man of war.
(a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak.
(b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
(c) See Portuguese man-of-war under man-of-war and
also see Physalia.
Man-stopping bullet (Mil.), a bullet which will produce a
sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge;
specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand
when striking the human body, producing a severe wound
which is also difficult to treat medically. Types of
bullets called hollow-nosed bullets, {soft-nosed
bullets} and hollow-point bullets are classed as
man-stopping. The dumdum bullet or dumdum is another
well-known variety. Such bullets were originally designed
for wars with savage tribes.
great man, a man[2] who has become prominent due to
substantial and widely admired contributions to social or
intellectual endeavors; as, Einstein was one of the great
men of the twentieth century.
To be one's own man, to have command of one's self; not to
be subject to another.
[1913 Webster +PJC] |
soft-nosed bullets
(gcide) | Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), n.; pl. Men (m[e^]n). [AS. mann, man,
monn, mon; akin to OS., D., & OHG. man, G. mann, Icel.
ma[eth]r, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth. manna, Skr.
manu, manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind.
[root]104. Cf. Minx a pert girl.]
1. A human being; -- opposed to beast.
[1913 Webster]
These men went about wide, and man found they none,
But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. --R.
of Glouc.
[1913 Webster]
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to
him as it doth to me. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast! --W. C.
Fields
[PJC]
2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person,
as distinguished from a woman or a child.
[1913 Webster]
When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I
Cor. xiii. 11.
[1913 Webster]
Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
3. The human race; mankind.
[1913 Webster]
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i.
26.
[1913 Webster]
The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
4. The male portion of the human race.
[1913 Webster]
Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than
man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]
5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities
of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the
elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world "This was a man!" --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
[1913 Webster]
Like master, like man. --Old Proverb.
[1913 Webster]
The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered,
and holding up his hands between those of his lord,
professed that he did become his man from that day
forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
--Blackstone.
[1913 Webster]
7. A term of familiar address at one time implying on the
part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,
or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! In the
latter half of the 20th century it became used in a
broader sense as simply a familiar and informal form of
address, but is not used in business or formal situations;
as, hey, man! You want to go to a movie tonight?.
[Informal]
[1913 Webster +PJC]
8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
[1913 Webster]
I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of
Com. Prayer.
[1913 Webster]
every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of
the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
[1913 Webster]
A man can not make him laugh. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all
they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum
of a Roman ship. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or
draughts, are played.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a
separate adjective, its sense being usually
self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater,
man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating,
manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man
midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped,
manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man
worship, etc.
Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the
male sex having a business which pertains to the thing
spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound;
ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman,
fireman, repairman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where
the combination is not familiar, or where some specific
meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used
as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as,
apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man
(as distinguished from woodman).
[1913 Webster]
Man ape (Zool.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.
Man at arms, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries for a soldier fully armed.
Man engine, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering
people through considerable distances; specifically
(Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend
in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the
shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod
which has an up and down motion equal to the distance
between the successive landings. A man steps from a
landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next
landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by
successive stages.
Man Friday, a person wholly subservient to the will of
another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.
Man of straw, a puppet; one who is controlled by others;
also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.
Man-of-the earth (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipomoea
pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the
morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous
root.
Man of sin (Script.), one who is the embodiment of evil,
whose coming is represented (--2 Thess. ii. 3) as
preceding the second coming of Christ. [A Hebraistic
expression]
Man of war.
(a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak.
(b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
(c) See Portuguese man-of-war under man-of-war and
also see Physalia.
Man-stopping bullet (Mil.), a bullet which will produce a
sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge;
specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand
when striking the human body, producing a severe wound
which is also difficult to treat medically. Types of
bullets called hollow-nosed bullets, {soft-nosed
bullets} and hollow-point bullets are classed as
man-stopping. The dumdum bullet or dumdum is another
well-known variety. Such bullets were originally designed
for wars with savage tribes.
great man, a man[2] who has become prominent due to
substantial and widely admired contributions to social or
intellectual endeavors; as, Einstein was one of the great
men of the twentieth century.
To be one's own man, to have command of one's self; not to
be subject to another.
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