different between bolt vs buckle

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.

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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.

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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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?k(?)l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?k(?)l/
• Homophone: buccal (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

From a frequentative form of buck (“to bend, buckle”), of Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German origin, related to Dutch bukken (“to stoop, bend, yield, submit”), German bücken (“to stoop, bend”), Swedish bocka (“to buck, bow”), equivalent to buck +? -le. Compare Middle Dutch buchelen (“to strive, tug under a load”), dialectal German aufbückeln (“to raise or arch the back”).

Verb

buckle (third-person singular simple present buckles, present participle buckling, simple past and past participle buckled)

1. (intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.

2. (transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).

   It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.

4. (intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
   • 1664, Samuel Pepys, diary entry December 15

     The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle.

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
   • 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before King Edward

     The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
6. To buckle down; to apply oneself.
   • 1700, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars

     To make our sturdy humour buckle thereto.

   • December 6, 1838, James David Forbes, letter to J. T. Harrison, Esq.

     Before buckling to my winter's work.

   • Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bokel (“spiked metal ring for holding a belt, etc”), from Old French boucle, bocle (“"boss (of a shield)" then "shield," later "buckle, metal ring”), from Latin buccula (“cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca (“cheek”).

Noun

buckle (plural buckles)

1. (countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
2. (Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
3. (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
4. A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.

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5. A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.

   • ear-locks in tight buckles on each side of a long lanthorn face

   • lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year

6. A contorted expression, as of the face.
   • 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost

     'Gainst nature arm'd by gravity, / His features too in buckle see.

Translations

Verb

buckle (third-person singular simple present buckles, present participle buckling, simple past and past participle buckled)

1. (transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
2. (Scotland) To unite in marriage.

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Translations

See also

• buckle down
• buckle to
• buckle up
• turnbuckle
• sun kink (buckle in railway track)

Anagrams

• Lubeck, Lübeck