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plod
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pl?d/
- Rhymes: -?d, -??d
Etymology 1
From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plod (“a puddle”). Compare Dutch plodden, Dutch plodderen and Danish pladder (“mire”).
Noun
plod (uncountable)
- A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
Verb
plod (third-person singular simple present plods, present participle plodding, simple past and past participle plodded)
- (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,[1]
- The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
- Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island Part One, Chapter 1
- I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50,[1]
- (transitive) To trudge over or through.
- 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,[2]
- Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph?
- Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.
- 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451,[3]
- […] Speed thou to Lombard-street,
- Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet,
- 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: The Richards Press, XLVI, pp. 69-70,[4]
- Break no rosemary, bright with rime
- And sparkling to the cruel clime;
- Nor plod the winter land to look
- For willows in the icy brook
- To cast them leafless round him […]
- 1596, Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible, Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave, p. 127,[2]
- To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,[5]
- Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,
- which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,
- He must be still familiar with the skyes,
- which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,[5]
Derived terms
- plodder
- plodding
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:plod.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).
Noun
plod (plural plods)
- (obsolete) A puddle.
Etymology 3
From PC Plod.
Noun
plod (usually uncountable, plural plods)
- (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers
- (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
Synonyms
- (the police): See Thesaurus:police
- (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer
Translations
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plod?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plot/
Noun
plod m
- fruit
- fetus
Declension
Derived terms
- oplodí n
See also
- embryo
- zárodek
- ovoce
Further reading
- plod in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- plod in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Romanian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plod?
Noun
plod n (plural plozi)
- (derogatory) small child
- (colloquial) fetus
Declension
Further reading
- plod in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plod?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plô?d/
Noun
pl?d m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- fruit (part of plant)
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *plod?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pló?t/
Noun
pl??d m inan
- fruit (part of plant)
Inflection
Derived terms
- pl??den
Further reading
- “plod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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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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