bullet pointとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bullet point (plural bullet points)

1. The symbol, typically a solid circle, that marks each item in a bulleted list.
   • 1996, Marcia Layton, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Terrific Business Writing, page 110:

     Bullet points don't have to be just round dots—you can use any small symbol to start off your line. Hyphens are popular, as are check marks and arrows.

   • 2021, Zoe Cannon, chapter 30, in Hound of Hades Books 1-4: An Urban Fantasy Thriller Box Set:

     She had a list in front of her, written out in the neatest handwriting I had ever seen […] Each item was prefaced by a perfectly round bullet point.

2. An item in a bulleted list.
   • 2007, Mary Ellen Guffey, Patricia Rogin, Kathleen Rhodes, Business Communication: Process and Product, page 374:

     Bullet points should be short phrases that are parallel.

   • 2019, Robert Pondiscio, How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice, page 262:

     As she speaks, a network-designed PowerPoint is projected on a screen […] The first bullet point says, “We love and support your kids like they are our own!” The next says, “Our school design is everything—it's all or nothing. Nothing is optional!”

3. (in general) A succinct statement of the kind that might appear in a bulleted list.
   • 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 29:

     Panic is immune to debate, to analysis, to earnest and cognitively therapeutic bullet points.

   • 2011, Julie Gray, Write an Irresistible CV, →ISBN:

     Go through your employment history and pull out all the bullet points that demonstrate the five skills you have prioritized.

同意語

• bullet
• dot point (Australia)

派生語

• bullet-point (verbal form)
• bullet-pointed

参考

• bulleted
• bulletize

動詞

bullet-point (third-person singular simple present bullet-points, present participle bullet-pointing, simple past and past participle bullet-pointed)

1. (transitive) To describe in a set of bullet points.
   • 2000, Ann Taket, Leroy White, Partnership and Participation: Decision-making in the Multiagency Setting, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, page 131:

     Concept mapping, mind mapping and cognitive mapping are useful means of breaking with the linearity of scribing what has been said or ‘bullet-pointing’ a discussion.

   • 2008 February, Ryan Scott, “Ultimate Online 2”, in Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, number 15, page 35:

     EA and Origin publicly unveiled UO2 in September 1999, bullet-pointing a sexy 3D engine, a fantasy-meets-steampunk setting, a reduced PVP focus, and dorktastic creature designs by Spawn creator Todd McFarlane.

   • 2016, Wynston Alexander Wilson, Antidotes for Adversity: 21 Effective Ways to Get Through Life’s Toughest Challenges, Createspace, →ISBN, pages 48–49:

     They glee in bullet-pointing a mere few how-to’s, delicately masking any and all complexities; carefully dismissing the difficulties involved.

   • 2015, John Forelli, One Woman Two Towers, →ISBN, page 48:

     Before my first elementary school dance, I vaguely remember my dad bullet pointing a list of body language a girl exhibits when she likes you.

   • 2021 September 5, CareerBuilder, “Resume skills guaranteed to get you noticed”, in The Modesto Bee, volume 144, number 248, section “The best way to present your skills on your resume”, page 5C, columns 5–6:

     Bullet-point the skills you offer, making them easy for people to read.

   • 2021 December 18, Rachel Jones, “Feature story: A ‘Home Town’ elf: Ben Napier crafts holiday spirit in the ‘Workshop’”, in Richmond Times-Dispatch, 171st year, number 352, page G39, column 4:

     The Canadian Broadcasting Company bullet-points the puzzling period, writing, “On Nov. 30, 2018, 30-year-old Cotten travelled to India to open an orphanage and celebrate his honeymoon. Nine days later, he was allegedly dead due to Crohn’s disease, and $215 million in cash and cryptocurrency were suddenly missing.”

関連する語

• bullet-pointed