different between bolt vs amble

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?lt/, /b??lt/, /b??lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bo?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt, -?lt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.
   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     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.
   1. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
   • 24 March 1774 , Stamford Mercury - "Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods" https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000254/17740324/001/0001
9. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.

10. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
    • '1887, Chalres Reader and 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.
    • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,^[1]

      He shall to prison, and there die in boults.

    • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1,^[2]

      Away with him to prison! Lay bolts enough upon him:

13. A burst of speed or efficiency.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• arrow
• dart
• nut
• screw

Verb

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

1. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.

2. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
3. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia

     This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, […] / And oft out of a bush doth bolt.

4. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).

5. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
6. (intransitive) To escape.
7. (intransitive, botany) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
8. To swallow food without chewing it.
9. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.

10. (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.
11. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

Translations

Adverb

bolt (not comparable)

1. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

   The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.

   • [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.

References

Etymology 2

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 *b??s- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.

Verb

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.

3. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
4. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jacob to this entry?)

Derived terms

• bolt to the bran
• unbolted

Noun

bolt (plural bolts)

1. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• blot, blót

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??l?d?]
• Homophone: bold

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bolt c (singular definite bolten, plural indefinite bolte)

1. a bolt (threaded)

Derived terms

• bolte (verb)

Related terms

• skrue (screw or bolt)

Etymology 2

Verb

bolt (imperative bolt, present tense bolter, passive boltes, simple past and past participle bolta or boltet, present participle boltende)

1. imperative of bolte

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian volta (“vault”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bolt]
• Rhymes: -olt

Noun

bolt (plural boltok)

1. shop, store (especially applied to relatively small shops in the countryside)

   Synonyms: üzlet, áruház, kereskedés, árus

2. vault

   Synonyms: boltozat, boltív, bolthajtás

Declension

Hyponyms

See also the compound words containing -bolt with the sense of a shop [store] below.

Derived terms

• bolti
• boltos
• boltozat

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Low German bolt

Noun

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

1. a bolt (threaded)

Derived terms

• bolte (verb)

Related terms

• skrue (screw or bolt)

Etymology 2

Verb

bolt

1. imperative of bolte

References

• “bolt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian boltr, from Middle Low German bolte.

Noun

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

1. a bolt (threaded)

Derived terms

• bolte (verb)

Related terms

• skrue (screw or bolt)

References

• “bolt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bolt.

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bolt/, [bo?t]

Noun

bolt m

1. bolt

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: bolt
  • English: bolt

References

English

Etymology

From Middle English amblen, from Old French ambler (“walk as a horse does”), from Old Occitan amblar, from Latin ambul? (“I walk”). Doublet of ambulate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æm.b?l/
• Rhymes: -æmb?l

Noun

amble (plural ambles)

1. An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.
2. An easy gait, especially that of a horse.

Translations

Verb

amble (third-person singular simple present ambles, present participle ambling, simple past and past participle ambled)

1. (intransitive) To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely.
2. (intransitive) Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other.

Synonyms

• (walk slowly and leisurely): saunter

Derived terms

• ambler

Related terms

• ambulate
• ambulance
• ambulatory

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Embla, Lambe, Mabel, Mable, Melba, belam, blame, melba

French

Verb

amble

1. first-person singular present indicative of ambler
2. third-person singular present indicative of ambler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ambler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ambler
5. second-person singular imperative of ambler

Anagrams

• blâme, blâmé

Spanish

Verb

amble

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of amblar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of amblar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of amblar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of amblar.