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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)
- 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.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- 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.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- 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.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- 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.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- (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
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- 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.
- '1887, Chalres Reader and Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir
- (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.
- 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:
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- 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)
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (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.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- (intransitive, botany) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (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.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
Translations
Adverb
bolt (not comparable)
- 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)
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- Graham flour is unbolted flour.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- imperative of bolte
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian volta (“vault”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bolt]
- Rhymes: -olt
Noun
bolt (plural boltok)
- shop, store (especially applied to relatively small shops in the countryside)
- Synonyms: üzlet, áruház, kereskedés, árus
- 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)
- a bolt (threaded)
Derived terms
- bolte (verb)
Related terms
- skrue (screw or bolt)
Etymology 2
Verb
bolt
- 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)
- 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
- bolt
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: bolt
- English: bolt
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shoot
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- Homophone: chute
Etymology 1
From Middle English shoten, from Old English sc?otan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutan?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”). Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian ??????? (kidát?), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian ???? (?ost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.
Verb
shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot or (rare) shotten)
- To launch a projectile.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- Synonym: (of an arrow) loose
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- 1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)
- Although the estate had been shot previously, there had been no effective keepering and little success with the pheasants released.
- 1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To dismiss or do away with.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
- It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- She [...] shoots the Stygian sound.
- 2005, R. G. Crouch, The Coat: The Origin and Times of Doggett's Famous Wager (page 40)
- It was approaching the time when watermen would not shoot the bridge even without a passenger aboard.
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- Thy words shoot through my heart.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
- These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.
- (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
- 1802, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII.
- The north-east [wind] is loaded with vapor, insomuch, that the salt-makers have found that their crystals would not shoot while that blows.
- 1802, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- c. 1608-1610, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb
- an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
- c. 1608-1610, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb
- (informal, transitive) To send to someone.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (sports) To act or achieve.
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To make the stated score.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To develop, move forward.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- 1709, John Dryden, Georgics
- But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.
- 1709, John Dryden, Georgics
- To grow; to advance.
- Well shot in years he seemed.
- 1728, James Thomson, "Spring"
- Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
- Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 49
- There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 49
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- 1677, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works
- two Pieces of Wood are Shot (that is Plained) or else they are Pared [...] with a Pairing-chissel
- 1677, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.W
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Dying Swan
- The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Dying Swan
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:shoot.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Catalan: xut
- ? Greek: ???? (sout)
- ? Persian: ???? (šut)
- ? Portuguese: chuto, chute
- ? Romanian: ?ut
- ? Vietnamese: sút
Translations
Noun
shoot (plural shoots)
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- Prune off yet also superfluous branches, and shoots of this second spring.
- A photography session.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
- One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
- In the western dike is a shoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling of cassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. The shoot contains a large amount of muscovite mica with quartz and very little or no feldspar...
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- 1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports (volume 12, page 238)
- That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timber shoot was worked by the defendant company.
- 1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports (volume 12, page 238)
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
Derived terms
- (hunt or shooting competition): turkey shoot
Descendants
- Catalan: xut
- Portuguese: chuto
Translations
Etymology 2
Minced oath for shit.
Interjection
shoot
- A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain
- Didn't you have a concert tonight?
- Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...
Synonyms
- (mild expletive): darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks, sugar
Translations
Anagrams
- Hoots, Htoos, Sotho, hoots, sooth, toosh
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