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bolt

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

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fly

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fl?, IPA(key): /fla?/
  • Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English flye, flie, from Old English fl??e, fl?oge (a fly), from Proto-Germanic *fleug? (a fly), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (to fly). Cognate with Scots flee, Saterland Frisian Fljooge, Dutch vlieg, German Low German Fleeg, German Fliege, Danish flue, Norwegian Bokmål flue, Norwegian Nynorsk fluge, Swedish fluga, Icelandic fluga.

Noun

fly (plural flies)

  1. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
  2. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
  3. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
  4. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
  5. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
  6. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
    • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
      a trifling fly, none of your great familiars
  7. (obsolete) A parasite.
  8. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys)
  9. (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations

Further reading

  • fly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Muscidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Middle English flien, from Old English fl?ogan, from Proto-Germanic *fleugan? (compare Saterland Frisian fljooge, Dutch vliegen, Low German flegen, German fliegen, Danish flyve, Norwegian Nynorsk flyga), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (*plew-k-, to fly) (compare Lithuanian pla?kti ‘to swim’), enlargement of *plew- (flow). More at flee and flow.

Verb

fly (third-person singular simple present flies, present participle flying, simple past flew, past participle flown)

  1. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
    • 1909, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy
      Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
    • Sleep flies the wretch.
    • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
      He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss. “Fly, you fools!” he cried, and was gone.
  3. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
    • The brave black flag I fly.
  4. (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
    He flew down the hill on his bicycle.
    It's five o'clock already. Doesn't time fly!
    • 1645, John Milton, On Time
      Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race.
    • 1870, William Cullen Bryant (translator), The Iliad (originally by Homer)
      The dark waves murmured as the ship flew on.
  5. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
  6. (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
    His career is really flying at the moment.
    One moment the company was flying high, the next it was on its knees.
  7. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
  8. (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
  9. To hunt with a hawk.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Synonyms
  • (travel through air): soar, hover, wing, skim, glide, ascend, rise, float, aviate
  • (flee): escape, flee, abscond; see also Thesaurus:flee
  • (travel very fast): dart, flit; see also Thesaurus:move quickly
  • (do an act suddenly): hurry, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush
Antonyms
  • (travel through air): walk
  • (flee): remain, stay
  • (travel very fast): see also Thesaurus:move slowly
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
  • fly agaric
  • flight
Translations

Noun

fly (plural flys or flies)

  1. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
  2. An act of flying.
  3. (baseball) A fly ball.
  4. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Folio Society 2008, page 124:
      As we left the house in my fly, which had been waiting, Van Helsing said:— ‘Tonight I can sleep in peace [...].’
    • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), page 54:
      And, driving back in the fly, Macmaster said to himself that you couldn't call Mrs. Duchemin ordinary, at least.
  5. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
  6. (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
    Ha-ha! Your flies are undone!
    • February 2014 Y-Front Fly
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    • June 2014 The Hole In Men’s Underwear: Name And Purpose
      Briefs were given an opening in the front. The point of this opening (the ‘fly’) was to make it easier to pee with clothes on
  7. The free edge of a flag.
  8. The horizontal length of a flag.
  9. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
  10. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
  11. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
  12. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
  13. Short for flywheel.
  14. (historical) A light horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation.
    • 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
      Can I get a fly, or a carriage of any kind? Is it too late?
      I dismissed the fly a mile distant from the park, and getting my directions from the driver, proceeded by myself to the house.
    • 1861, Henry Mayhew and William Tuckniss, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopœdia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work, Volume 3, p. 359:
      A glass coach, it may be as well to observe, is a carriage and pair hired by the day, and a fly a one-horse carriage hired in a similar manner.
  15. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
  16. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
  17. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
  18. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
  19. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
  20. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
  21. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

fly (third-person singular simple present flies, present participle flying, simple past and past participle flied)

  1. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
    Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.
Translations

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; probably from the verb or noun.

Adjective

fly (comparative flier, superlative fliest)

  1. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
  2. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
  3. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
Translations

Etymology 4

Related to German Flügel (a wing), Dutch vleugel (a wing), Swedish flygel (a wing).

Noun

fly (plural flies)

  1. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.

References

  • fly at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?fly?]

Etymology 1

An abbreviation of flyvemaskine, after Norwegian fly and Swedish flyg.

Noun

fly n (singular definite flyet, plural indefinite fly)

  1. airplane
Inflection
Synonyms
  • flyvemaskine c
  • flyver c

Etymology 2

From Old Norse flýja (to flee), from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?, cognate with English flee, German fliehen, Dutch vlieden.

Verb

fly (present flyr or flyer, past tense flyede, past participle flyet)

  1. (archaic) to flee
  2. (archaic) to shun
Inflection

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German vl?(g)en (to stack, sort out), cognate with Dutch vlijen (to place), from Proto-Germanic *fl?han, of unknown ultimate origin; possibly related to the root of *flaihijan (to be sly, to flatter), though the semantic gap is wide.

Verb

fly (present flyr or flyer, past tense flyede, past participle flyet)

  1. (archaic) to hand, give
Inflection

References


Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fly?/

Etymology 1

Short form of flygemaskin

Noun

fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya or flyene)

  1. plane, aeroplane (UK), airplane (US), aircraft
Derived terms


Etymology 2

From Old Norse fljúga

Alternative forms

  • flyge

Verb

fly (imperative fly, present tense flyr, simple past fløy, past participle flydd or fløyet)

  1. to fly
Derived terms
  • glidefly

References

  • “fly” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fly?/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

Clipping of flygemaskin (flying machine).

Noun

fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya)

  1. plane, aeroplane (UK), airplane (US), aircraft
    Skunda deg, elles misser du flyet ditt!
    Hurry up, or you'll miss your plane!
Derived terms


Etymology 2

From Old Norse fljúga, from Proto-Germanic *fleugan?.

Alternative forms

  • fljuga, fljuge, flyga, flyge

Verb

fly (present tense flyr or flyg, past tense flaug, supine floge, past participle flogen, present participle flygande, imperative fly or flyg)

  1. (intransitive) to fly (to travel through air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface)
  2. (transitive, ergative) to cause to fly: to transport via air or the like
  3. (intransitive) to run, move fast
  4. (intransitive, chiefly about farm animals) to be in heat, rutting
Derived terms


Related terms
  • fløygje

Adjective

fly (masculine and feminine fly, neuter flytt, definite singular and plural flye, comparative flyare, indefinite superlative flyast, definite superlative flyaste)

  1. very steep

Noun

fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya)

  1. a very steep cliff

Etymology 3

From Old Norse flýja, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?.

Verb

fly (present tense flyr, past tense flydde, past participle flydd/flytt, passive infinitive flyast, present participle flyande, imperative fly)

  1. (intransitive) to escape; flee; run away
    Synonym: flykte
  2. (transitive) to escape from

Etymology 4

Clipping of flygande (flying), present participle of fly.

Adverb

fly

  1. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the word forbanna
    Han vart fly forbanna.

Etymology 5

Confer with flye n (flying insect) and English fly.

Noun

fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)

  1. small (flying) insect
  2. (fishing) bait

Etymology 6

Noun

fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)

  1. specks
    Synonyms: rusk, grann

Etymology 7

Noun

fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)

  1. mountain plateau
    Synonyms: vidde, fjellvidde

Etymology 8

Of uncertain origin, though may be related to flyta (to float).

Noun

fly n (definite singular flyet, indefinite plural fly, definite plural flya)

  1. sump

Etymology 9

Related to, or possibly a doublet of flø, from Old Norse flór.

Adjective

fly (masculine and feminine fly, neuter flytt, definite singular and plural flye, comparative flyare, indefinite superlative flyast, definite superlative flyaste)

  1. tepid

References

  • “fly” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • Ivar Aasen (1850) , “fly”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Anagrams

  • fyl

Scots

Adjective

fly

  1. (slang, chiefly Doric) sneaky

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fl?ia, fl?a, from Old Norse flýja, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan?.

Pronunciation

Verb

fly (present flyr, preterite flydde, supine flytt, imperative fly)

  1. to flee, to run away, to escape
  2. to pass, to go by (of time)
    • 1964, Gunnel Vallquist, title of the new Swedish translation of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
      På spaning efter den tid som flytt
      In Search of Lost Time
    • 1965, Sven-Ingvars, Börja om från början
      Varför ska man sörja tider som har flytt?
      Why should one feel sorry for times that have passed?

Conjugation

Related terms

  • flykt
  • flykting

Westrobothnian

Verb

fly

  1. to send, to hand
    fly me s?ksa
    hand me the scissors

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