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bolt

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See also: Bolt, Bôłt, bòlt, and bolț

English

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a fastening bolt with nut
Bolt-DIN 933-M10-20
Bolt DIN
a door bolt
bolts of fabric
(carrier) bolt of a M16 rifle
bolts of lightning

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɒlt/, /bəʊlt/, [bɔʊɫt]
  • (US) IPA(key): /boʊlt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊlt, -ɒlt

Etymology 1

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From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”).[1] Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.

Noun

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bolt (plural bolts)

  1. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
  2. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
  3. A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
  4. (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
  5. A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
  6. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
  7. A sudden event, action or emotion.
    The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.
    • 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
      With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
  8. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
    • 1774 March 24, Stamford Mercury‎[1]:
      Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “All Astir”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 106:
      Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything betokened that the ship's preparations were hurrying to a close.
    1. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
  9. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
    The horse made a bolt.
  10. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
    • 1887, Charles Reade, Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir:
      This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America — or anywhere.
  11. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
  12. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
  13. A burst of speed or efficiency.
    • 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 August 2019:
      In the event they lacked a proper midfield bolt, with Toni Kroos and Sami Khedira huffing around in pursuit of the whizzing green machine. The centre-backs looked flustered, left to deal with three on two as Mexico broke. Löw’s 4-2-3-1 seemed antiquated and creaky, with the old World Cup shark Thomas Müller flat-footed in a wide position.
  14. A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
    • 2013, Wong Yoon Wah, Durians Are Not the Only Fruit: Notes from the Tropics, Epigram Books, →ISBN:
      All kinds of vegetables may be used as a topping, but the best are strongly flavoured ones without too much moisture, such as celery, garlic bolts, chives, scallions, or various beans (long beans, green beans etc.) ...
    • 2017, Adam Brookes, The Spy's Daughter, Redhook, →ISBN:
      She ordered Cat's Ear Noodles heaped with garlic bolts and tomatoes, the broth thick with cumin, laced with black vinegar. The girl caught her accent, the sibilant sing-song of the south, and smiled, tilting her head questioningly.
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Descendants
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  • → Irish: bolta
  • → Japanese: ボルト (boruto)
  • → Maltese: bolt
  • → Russian: болт (bolt)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: bolta
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Verb

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bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)

  1. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
    Bolt the vice to the bench.
  2. (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
    • 2000 September 14, Brennan Young, “to all of you pro programmers out there.”, in macromedia.flash‎[3] (Usenet):
      Most languages are *not* based on C++. C++ is a complicated mess. It's C with object oriented features bolted on as an afterthought and no-one in their right mind would want to base another language on it.
    • 2013, Days N' Daze (lyrics and music), “Call in the Coroner”, in Rogue Taxidermy:
      Going through the motions with an empty smile bolted on my face
  3. (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
    Bolt the door.
  4. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
    Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
    The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
    • 1627, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie.”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for VVilliam Lee, […], published 1631, →OCLC, page 178:
      This Pucke ſeems but a dreaming dolt, / Still vvalking like a ragged Colt, / And oft out of a buſh doth bolt, / Of purpoſe to deceiue vs, / And leading vs makes vs to ſtray.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 87:
      Bradly was embarrassed, detected in the character of a snooper. But he had to come on, short of bolting back in his tracks.
  5. (intransitive) To escape.
  6. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
    to bolt a rabbit
  7. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
  8. (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
    Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.
    • 1982, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Diane E. Bilderback, Garden Secrets: A Guide to Understanding how Your Garden Grows and how You Can Help it Grow Even Better, →ISBN:
      When an onion bolts and forms a flower stalk, the stem grows right up through the neck, forming a tough, fibrous tube that pierces the center of the bulb. The plant channels all its energy into this flower stalk, so no more fleshy  […]
    • 1995, Anne Raver, “Gandhi Gardening”, in Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:
      To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. […] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.
    • 2011, Trina Clickner, A Miscellany of Garlic: From Paying Off Pyramids and Scaring Away Tigers to Inspiring Courage and Curing Hiccups, the Unusual Power Behind the World's Most Humble Vegetable, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      Hardneck garlic bolts, which means it produces a single flower stalk, also known as a scape. It is considered to be far tastier and “gourmet.” You can find hardneck garlic mainly at farmers' markets […]
  9. (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
  10. (transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
    Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!
  11. (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
    • 1990 December 9, Richard Braun, “A Whole New Day For The Party: Giving Us A Voice”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 5:
      John Silber charged that people who bolted the Democratic Party in this election are "Kamakaze [sic] liberals", beneath contempt and clearly too stupid to deserve to vote.
  12. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
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Adverb

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bolt (not comparable)

  1. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
    The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.
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References

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  1. ^ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bolt?s=t

Etymology 2

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From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.

Verb

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bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)

  1. To sift, especially through a cloth.
  2. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
    Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.
  3. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
  4. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
    • 1781, “The History and Antiquities of the Four Inns of Court”, in The Monthly Review:
      […] the old habits of mooting or bolting caſes (i.e. of public disputations), might make the ſtudent more ſubtle and acute
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Noun

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bolt (plural bolts)

  1. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
    • 1885, Canada. Patent Office, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks, page 279:
      The combination, in a flour bolt, of a reel head having a throat near its outer edge for the passage of the tailings and a series of revolving adjustable beaters, substantially as set forth.
    • 1886, The Mechanical News, page 120:
      We have a number of these reels in different mills that are bolting the break flour direct from the scalping reels and scalped through No. 8 cloth. […] Now, gentlemen, they require a much less number to do a given amount of work than any other known machine or bolt, and require less space and power.
    • 1896, United States. Patent Office, Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases., page 493:
      As the material is agitated by the motion of the bolt, the flour falls through, while the smaller particles of bran are taken up by the current of air and carried off.

References

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  • “bolt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian болт (bolt), from English bolt.

Noun

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bolt (definite accusative boltu, plural boltlar)

  1. bolt, screw

Declension

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    Declension of bolt
singular plural
nominative bolt
 boltlar
definite accusative boltu
 boltları
dative bolta
 boltlara
locative boltda
 boltlarda
ablative boltdan
 boltlardan
definite genitive boltun
 boltların
    Possessive forms of bolt
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) boltum boltlarım
sənin (“your”) boltun boltların
onun (“his/her/its”) boltu boltları
bizim (“our”) boltumuz boltlarımız
sizin (“your”) boltunuz boltlarınız
onların (“their”) boltu or boltları boltları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) boltumu boltlarımı
sənin (“your”) boltunu boltlarını
onun (“his/her/its”) boltunu boltlarını
bizim (“our”) boltumuzu boltlarımızı
sizin (“your”) boltunuzu boltlarınızı
onların (“their”) boltunu or boltlarını boltlarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) boltuma boltlarıma
sənin (“your”) boltuna boltlarına
onun (“his/her/its”) boltuna boltlarına
bizim (“our”) boltumuza boltlarımıza
sizin (“your”) boltunuza boltlarınıza
onların (“their”) boltuna or boltlarına boltlarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) boltumda boltlarımda
sənin (“your”) boltunda boltlarında
onun (“his/her/its”) boltunda boltlarında
bizim (“our”) boltumuzda boltlarımızda
sizin (“your”) boltunuzda boltlarınızda
onların (“their”) boltunda or boltlarında boltlarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) boltumdan boltlarımdan
sənin (“your”) boltundan boltlarından
onun (“his/her/its”) boltundan boltlarından
bizim (“our”) boltumuzdan boltlarımızdan
sizin (“your”) boltunuzdan boltlarınızdan
onların (“their”) boltundan or boltlarından boltlarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) boltumun boltlarımın
sənin (“your”) boltunun boltlarının
onun (“his/her/its”) boltunun boltlarının
bizim (“our”) boltumuzun boltlarımızın
sizin (“your”) boltunuzun boltlarınızın
onların (“their”) boltunun or boltlarının boltlarının

Further reading

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  • “bolt” in Obastan.com.

Danish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Low German bolt, from Middle Low German bolte, from Old Saxon bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt.

Noun

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bolt c (singular definite bolten, plural indefinite bolte)

  1. a bolt (threaded)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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bolt

  1. imperative of bolte

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian volta (“vault”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bolt (plural boltok)

  1. shop (GB), store (US) (especially applied to relatively small shops in the countryside)
    Synonyms: üzlet, áruház, kereskedés, (mostly in compounds) árus
    Hyponyms: ábécé, butik, cukrászda, diszkont, étterem, gyógyszertár, kávézó, kocsma, közért, papír-írószer, pékség, piac, pláza, presszó, szalon (as a second element in compounds), teázó, trafik, újságos, vendéglő, zöldséges
  2. (folksy) Synonym of élelmiszerbolt, közért (“grocery store”).
  3. (informal) deal (a particular instance of trading [buying or selling; exchanging; bartering]; a transaction)
  4. vault (arched ceiling)
    Synonyms: boltozat, boltív, bolthajtás

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bolt boltok
accusative boltot boltokat
dative boltnak boltoknak
instrumental bolttal boltokkal
causal-final boltért boltokért
translative bolttá boltokká
terminative boltig boltokig
essive-formal boltként boltokként
essive-modal — —
inessive boltban boltokban
superessive bolton boltokon
adessive boltnál boltoknál
illative boltba boltokba
sublative boltra boltokra
allative bolthoz boltokhoz
elative boltból boltokból
delative boltról boltokról
ablative bolttól boltoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		bolté boltoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		boltéi boltokéi
Possessive forms of bolt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. boltom boltjaim
2nd person sing. boltod boltjaid
3rd person sing. boltja boltjai
1st person plural boltunk boltjaink
2nd person plural boltotok boltjaitok
3rd person plural boltjuk boltjaik

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Compound words with a meaning unrelated to shops/stores
Compound words with the sense ’shop/store’: types of shop [hyponyms aside from those supplied above]
Compound words with the sense ’shop/store’: other compounds

(Note: Most compounds with üzlet as an affix in the sense ’shop/store’ can be expressed with bolt.)

Further reading

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  • (vault): bolt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (shop, store): bolt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • bolt in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bolt.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bolt m (plural boltijiet)

  1. bolt (metal fastener)
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Norwegian boltr, from Low German bolt.

Noun

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bolt m (definite singular bolten, indefinite plural bolter, definite plural boltene)

  1. a bolt (threaded)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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bolt

  1. imperative of bolte

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Middle Norwegian boltr, from Middle Low German bolte.

Noun

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bolt m (definite singular bolten, indefinite plural boltar, definite plural boltane)

  1. a bolt (threaded)

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *bolt.

Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”).[1] Akin to Dutch bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Icelandic bolti.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bolt m

  1. bolt

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative bolt boltas
accusative bolt boltas
genitive boltes bolta
dative bolte boltum

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References

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  1. ^ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bolt?s=t
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