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Definition: Bolt |
BoltAdverb1. In a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "ge sat bolt upright". 2. (informal) directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her". Noun1. A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder. 2. A sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech. 3. The part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key. 4. The act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door". 5. A roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length. 6. A screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener. 7. A sudden abandonment (as from a political party). Verb1. Move or jump suddenly: "She bolted from her seat". 2. Secure or lock with a bolt; "bolt the door". 3. Swallow hastily. 4. Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along. 5. Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out". 6. Eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!". 7. Make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bolt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Cylindrical in shape, with a close and only slightly inclined thread. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Any section of the bole, or of the thicker branches, of a felled tree after trimming and cross-cutting. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Piece of cloth of fixed length. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Bolt An arrow, a shaft (Anglo-Saxon, bolta; Danish, bolt; Greek, ballo, to cast; Latin, pello, to drive). A door bolt is a shaft of wood or iron, which may be shot or driven forward to secure a door. A thunderbolt is an hypothetical shaft cast from the clouds; an aerolite. Cupid's bolt is Cupid's arrow. The fool's bolt is soon spent. A foolish archer shoots all his arrows so heedlessly that he leaves himself no resources in case of need. I must bolt. Be off like an arrow. To bolt food. To swallow it quickly without waiting to chew it. To bolt out the truth. To blurt it out; also To bolt out, to exclude or shut out by bolting the door. To bolt. To sift, as flour is bolted. This has a different derivation to the above (Low Latin, bult-ella, a boulter, from an Old French word for coarse cloth). "I cannot bolt this matter to the bran, As Bradwarden and holy Austin can." Dryden's version of the Cock and Fox. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Any cylindrical screw with head which is used with a nut; there is an unthreaded portion between the thread and the head. Source: European Union. (references) |
| To fasten with one or more bolts. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A bar, usually of steel, which is inserted into pre-drilled holes in rock and secured for the purpose of ground control. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A rod used in roof bolting. See also:slot-and-wedge bolt;wedge-and-sleeve bolt. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | BOLT. A blunt arrow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BOLT | English | Brokerage Event "Online Technology" | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BoltSynonyms: bang (adv), rigidly (adv), slap (adv), slapdash (adv), smack (adv), stiffly (adv), bolt of lightning (n), dash (n), deadbolt (n), thunderbolt (n), abscond (v), absquatulate (v), bolt out (v), decamp (v), go off (v), gobble (v), run off (v), run out (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: clicked (mechanical engineering). |
| Antonym: unbolt (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet, wommerah; cattle prod; chemical mace. |
Missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt. | |
Avoidance | Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject. |
Closure | (hinder); bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door. |
Connection | Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post. |
Food | Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble. |
Gluttony | Verb: gormandize, gorge; overgorge, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp; (swallow food); raven, eat out of house and home. |
Hindrance | Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude. |
Junction | Braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase; graft, ingraft, |
Regression | Dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork. |
Simpleness | Sift, winnow, bolt, eliminate; exclude, get rid of; clear; purify; (clean); disentangle; (disjoin). |
Velocity | Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground. |
Verticality | Adjective: vertical, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, normal, straight, bolt, upright; rampant; standing up; Verb: rectangular, orthogonal; a. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hold the lightning bolt there, Lord, I'm just doing this for the kid. (Archie Bunker's Place; writing credit: David Angell; Richard Baer) It's Blue Bolt again, Wally, and you know what that means (The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure; writing credit: George Kashdan) Paulie! Get the bolt cutters from out of the trunk (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) Well, if it wasn't for you, Guv'nor, it'd be Ben Bolt. (Number Seventeen; writing credit: Joseph Jefferson Farjeon) In her room, which I'm thinking we bolt from the outside from now on. (Firefly; writing credit: Michael Mates) | |
Lyrics | But the bolt reminds me I was there (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua) The bolt reminds me I was there (Turn Back Time; performing artist: Aqua) | |
Movie/TV Titles | That Man Bolt (1973) The Films of Robert Bolt (1972) 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964) While John Bolt Slept (1913) The Lightning Bolt (1913) | |
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![]() | Dr. Joseph Büttner / Tangermann pinxt. Fr. Bolt sculpst. 1818. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Dr. W. Crighton / Fr. Krüger del. Fr. Bolt sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Thunder Bolt Bat[ter]y from Rear. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Subcontracting. Bogie-wheel assembly. Spot facing for a bolt and lock washer that holds a bogie-wheel rubbing plate in place on a lever. The work is being done in the machine shop of a small Eastern subcontractor. Painesville Machine Company. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. James Uriah Dove talking with Jim Bolt, his hired man from Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Lightning. Lightning bolt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Rusty bolt" by Fredrik Feyling Commentary: "Chain and bolt, ." | "Bolt" by Mike Rose Commentary: "Just a bolt." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| Wind; tighten; bolt; nut; cock; . | Lock; bolt; latch; secure; key; going out. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Robert Bolt | When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties they lead their country by a short route to chaos. |
Sir Walter Scott | If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | As he was putting his hand on the bolt, and was just going out, he reflected and stopped |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom turned each bolt a single turn, loosening them evenly to spare the gasket |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bolt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.73% of the time. "Bolt" is used about 733 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.73% | 709 | 9,445 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.77% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.5% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 733 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bolt" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bolt | Last name | 3,000 | 4,034 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Bolt Technology Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Bolt, WV |
Expressions using "bolt": a bolt from the blue ♦ adjustment bolt ♦ anchor bolt ♦ Bat bolt ♦ blanking bolt ♦ Bolt and nut ♦ Bolt auger ♦ bolt carrier ♦ bolt cutter ♦ bolt down ♦ bolt down one's food ♦ bolt from the blue ♦ bolt head ♦ bolt hole ♦ bolt in ♦ bolt nut ♦ bolt of lightning ♦ bolt on ♦ bolt one's food ♦ bolt out ♦ bolt out of the blue ♦ bolt shut ♦ bolt smb. in ♦ bolt smb. out ♦ bolt timber ♦ bolt upright ♦ bolt with nut ♦ carriage bolt ♦ Chain bolt ♦ cotter bolt ♦ countersunk bolt for woodwork ♦ countersunk nibbed bolt for woodwork ♦ countersunk square neck bolt for woodwork ♦ draw a bolt ♦ elf bolt ♦ expansion bolt ♦ Flour bolt ♦ Flush bolt ♦ Forelock bolt ♦ Fox bolt ♦ Garnish bolt ♦ hexagon bolt ♦ hexagon headed bolt ♦ hexagonal bolt ♦ hexagonal head bolt ♦ hinge bolt ♦ holding down bolt ♦ Jag bolt ♦ Joint bolt ♦ Key bolt ♦ La Bolt ♦ lag bolt ♦ like a bolt from the blue ♦ long bolt ♦ Lug bolt ♦ machine bolt ♦ make a bolt for it ♦ nut and bolt ♦ panic bolt ♦ pin bolt ♦ pivot bolt ♦ rag bolt ♦ removal of bolt ♦ ring bolt ♦ roller bolt ♦ rotary locking bolt ♦ safety bolt ♦ screw bolt ♦ shackle bolt ♦ shoe bolt ♦ shoot one's bolt ♦ socket bolt ♦ standing bolt ♦ stay bolt ♦ stopper bolt ♦ stove bolt ♦ strap bolt ♦ strata bolt ♦ stud bolt ♦ Tap bolt ♦ Through bolt ♦ thunder bolt ♦ To bolt to the bran ♦ wing bolt. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bolt": bolt-action, bolt-cutters, bolt-guns, bolt-hole, bolt-holes, bolt-like, bolt-on, bolt-on-on, bolt-ons, bolt-protected, bolt-rig, bolt-rigs, bolt-through, bolt-upright. | |
Ending with "bolt": anti-bolt, captive-bolt, door-bolt, double-bolt, elf-bolt, eye-bolt, four-bolt, key-bolt, king-bolt, lock-bolt, nut-and-bolt, push-bolt, roof-bolt, stay-bolt, stud-bolt, Wrain-bolt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bolt | 2,261 | lightening bolt | 31 |
nut and bolt | 394 | crown bolt | 30 |
lightning bolt | 162 | bolt action rifle | 28 |
metric bolt | 154 | bolt com | 28 |
stainless steel bolt | 137 | screw bolt | 28 |
u bolt | 105 | lightning bolt picture | 27 |
anchor bolt | 88 | shoulder bolt | 27 |
eye bolt | 72 | bolt clank gold ratchet | 25 |
torque bolt | 67 | bolt of fabric | 24 |
bolt pattern | 66 | toggle bolt | 24 |
arp bolt | 66 | bolt castle | 24 |
wheel bolt pattern | 64 | bolt and fastener | 24 |
bolt cutter | 63 | nut screw bolt | 24 |
bolt grade | 45 | stud bolt | 24 |
titanium bolt | 43 | grade 8 bolt | 23 |
bolt thrower | 42 | bolt size | 23 |
carriage bolt | 41 | 12 bolt end rear | 22 |
lag bolt | 37 | bolt cremone | 22 |
david bolt | 36 | bolt clamp t | 21 |
aluminum bolt | 35 | hanger bolt | 21 |
banjo bolt | 21 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bolt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | knip. (various references) | |
Albanian | bulon (screw bolt), vetëtimë (lightning, thunderbolt), vë shulin, turrem (chase, come upon, dash, fly, fly at, hare, pile off, pounce, rush, set on, spring), top (ball, cannon, falconet, field gun, gun, knob, nub, nubble, nugget, piece, soundly), sit (sieve, sift), shul dere, shtrëngoj me bulona, shqyrtoj (analyse, analyze, assay, call, canvass, case, check, check over, debate, discuss, explore, inspect, investigate, look into, look over, look through, moot, peruse, process, scrutinize, see, see into, study, talk over, think out, traverse, vet, view), ikje ebleftë, gjuhëz (bleak, clapper, panhandle, promontory, Reed, reed pipe, sole, strip, tenon, tongue), fole e fishekut. (various references) | |
Arabic | سهم قصير, بلع الطعام, رأس الجبل, ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), إبتلع (engulf, gulf, gulp, overwhelm, pouch, swallow, swig, swoop), إرتج (jar, jolt, throb, toss), إزدرد (gobble, stuff), إزدرد الطعام (bolt down), إلتهم (consume, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), إنفصل عن حزبه, برغي (screw), صاعقة (lightning, thunderbolt), فرار (elopement, escapade, escape, flight, scamper, stampede), تفحص (look about for smth., look at, look into, scan, scrutiny, see into), غلق (chap, close, close up, hinder, lock, lockup, make, seam off, shut, shut down, sock in), لسان القفل, لف ورق جدران, معلاق (hook), مزلاج (catch, latch), مسمار ملولب, كتلة خشبية, فر (abscond, break away, decamp, elope, escape, flee, flight, fly, get away, get free, get off, run away, run off, slope, take flight, take to one's heels), جزء صغير مستدير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гръм (bark, boom, clap, crack, peal, reverberation, shaft, thunder, thunder peal, thunderbolt, thunderclap), изяждане набързо, пресявам (griddle, riddle, screen, sieve, sift, winnow), болт (clincher, gudgeon, plug), лост (bar, clevis, column, crossbar, horizontal bar, lever, pinch, pry, tiller), заключвам (fasten, key, latch, lock, lock up, prison, screw up, shut, shut in), изяждам набързо, връзка върбови вейки, стягам с болтове, топ платно, хуквам (dart, fling, streak off), разглеждам (analyse, analyze, canvass, consider, do, eye, handle, hear, look through, oversee, regard, scan, see, see into, see over, take up, treat, view), резе (bar, finger, key, latch), сито (cribble, griddle, rose, screen, separator, sieve, sifter), стрела (arrow, boom, dart, jibe, lead, outrigger, shaft), мълния (flash, lightning, shaft, thunder, thunderbolt). (various references) | |
Chinese | 螺栓, 門栓 . (various references) | |
Czech | zastrèit (hold in, insert, push down, slip, stick, tuck, tuck in), závora (bar, barrier, crossbar, Pike, push-bolt, rail, Toll bar, toll gate), zástrèka (plug, turn-buckle), uzávìr (cover, fastening, lock, locking device, seal, snap, stopper, top), sešroubovat, šroub (screw), šipka (arrow, dart). (various references) | |
Danish | bolte sammen, bolt, USA-bolt, stamme (stem, trunk), rigel (catch, cross beam, girder, horizontal girder, latch, lock, plunger, shot pin, spring plunger, stop pin, transom, transverse girder), pal (cam, catch, click, detent, inverse cam, latch, lock, pawl, phase alternate line, phase alternation line, pin, programmable array logic, rack element, ratchet), klinke (catch, click, latch, lever latch, pawl, pin, rack element, ratchet), kævle (trunk), effekt (effect). (various references) | |
Dutch | grendelen (fasten), grendel (Grendel), afgrendelen (fasten). (various references) | |
Esperanto | riglilo, rigli (fasten). (various references) | |
Faeroese | steingja (bar, fasten, obstruct). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیچ (Buckle, Curve, Knee, Loop, Meander, Ramp, Rick, Screw, Twine, Twist, Vis, Vortex, Whorl), مستقیما (Perse, Sheer, Straight), ناگهان (Aback, Abrupt, Slapdash, Sudden, Unaware, Unawares), توپ پارچه , ازجاجستن , رهاکردن (Abandon, Disentangle, Dispossess, Drop, Extricate, Lax, Leave, Let, Liberate, Loose, Release, Surrender, Unbend, Uncork, Uncouple, Unfasten, Unfix, Unfold, Unhand, Unhook, Unleash, Unloose, Unsling), راست (Erect, Prick, Right, Sheer, Straight, Straightforward, True, Upright, Wooden), بطورعمودی (Plumb). (various references) | |
Finnish | pultti (peg, pin). (various references) | |
French | verrouiller, boulon (bolt with nut), verrou, boulonner (bolt on). (various references) | |
Frisian | ôfskoattelje (fasten, lock). (various references) | |
German | Bolzen (bolts, gib, gib head, kick about, kick around, pin, slam), riegel (bar, cake, latch, strap, tab), verschrauben (screw together, to bolt together), verriegeln (fasten, interlock, interlocking, latch, lock, to interlock), schraube (helix, male screw, prop, propeller, screw, twist), durchgehen (be allowed, be non-stop, be passed, be tolerated, check through, comb through, come through, cover, elope, go over, go through, pass through, peruse, run off, run through, sift, slip by, slip past, to peruse, walk through), Blitz (flash, lightning, thunderbolt), Ballen (bale, bales, Bunion, clench, pack, pad, roll, sack). (various references) | |
Greek | βίδα (screw, thumbscrew). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מנעול (bar, lock, padlock), לולב (palm branch, twig), לערוק (desert, escape, flee, rat, renegade, tergiversate), להגיף (lock, shut), לבלוע בחפזון (gobble), לסגור בבריח (latch), בריח (bar, clavicle, collar bone, latch), ברג (screw), סדן (anvil, block, tump), סגר (closing, closure, lock, occlusion, tongue of a lock). (various references) | |
Hungarian | retesz (catch, fastener, fastening, finger, hasp, latch, slide, sliding bolt, sneck, tumbler), csavar (clam, male screw, screw, to curl, to screw, to slice, to twirl, to twist, to wind, tweak, twist, wound). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggerendel, membaut, lompat, lari cepat (sprint), kilat. (various references) | |
Italian | chiavistello (latch, lock), bullone (bolt with nut). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ボルツマン定数 (bolero, Boltzmann's constant, bon, bond, bonding, bongo, bonjour, boron, Good evening, volley, volt, voltage, Volvo), ヴァチカン市国 (valid, valkyrie, valve, vampire, variable, variation, variety, Vatican City State, velocity, vendor, Venus, videotape, viola, vision, vocal, vocalist, voicing, volt, volume, vorpal, wizard). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボルト (volt), ヴォルト (volt). (various references) | |
Korean | 놀이쇠. (various references) | |
Manx | side (arrow, shaft), roie (burst, charging, charging as animals, cursive; full retreat, dart, draught, draught ale, flow, flowing, flying, ladder, race, range, run, scurry, shooting, shooting as pain, slip, smuggle; running, smuggling, sprinting), orraghey (cast, charge, discharge, flight, round of ammunition, shot, shy, sling, throw), bout (bout, fall, round), boltey, boltal (key), bolt, barrey (bar, barrow, boat passage, channel). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oltbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | parafuso (nut, screw, spin, spinning, tail-spin), lingueta (catch, feather, latch, pallet, tongue), ferrolho (hasp, latch), cavilha (axle pin, cotter, dowel, forelock, gudgeon, key, kingpin, peg, pike, pin, pintle, preventer, spike, tenon, thole), aferrolhar (fasten, hoard, imprison, latch, lock). (various references) | |
Romanian | bolţ (finger, gudgeon, pin), bucatã de stofã (width), bulon (external screw, male screw), fixa cu un şurub, înfuleca (engorge, gorge, guzzle, knap, slummock, wolf, wolf down), înghiţi (devour, engulf, get down, get over, gobble, ingurgitate, lump, pocket, swallow, swig), înghiţi pe nerãsuflate, şurub (clamp, screw), cerceta minuţios, închide (bar, block, cage, chest, clap up, clasp, clench, close, closet, comprise, confine, contain, crib, darken, embay, enclose, fasten, furl, girdle, half-shut, heal, hem, impound, imprison, include, lock, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut the works down, stopper), ciurui (gush, riddle, screen, sieve), zãvorî (close, conceal, hide, lock, lock up, secure), fugã (be quick, bunk, career, course, escape, flight, fugue, getaway, hurry on, leak, leg-bail, lick, look sharp, make haste, run, running, rush, scamper, scurry, scuttle, slip, stampede), fulger (Levin, lightning, post haste, streak, thunderbolt), lacãt (lock, locksmith, padlock), o lua la fugã, o lua la goanã, pãrãsi un partid politic, refuzul de a sprijini politicã, trãsnet (thunder, thunderbolt), zãvor (bar, catch, fastener, key, latch, lock), cerne (distinguish, drizzle, riddle, screen, sieve, sift, spit). (various references) | |
Romany | vint. (various references) | |
Russian | стержень (arm, bar, center, centre, core, peg, pivot, rod, scape, shaft, shank, spindle, stud), стебель затвора, установочный винт (set screw), удрать (cut one's lucky, get away, give leg bail, give leg-bail, make off, nip away, run off, scram, take to one's heels), скреплять;запирать болт;удар, сбежать (elope, levant, sling one's hook), грохот (clatter, crash, cribble, crush, din, grate, noise, peal, rattle, screen, thunder), ось (axes, axis, axle, axletree, axle-tree, center, centre, kingbolt, shaft, spindle), засов (bar, fast, hasp), затвор (bibb, breech-block, gate, hatch, paddle, penstock, plug, seal, shutter, water gate), закрывать на засов, болт (external screw, gudgeon, kingbolt, screw, screw bolt, screw-bolt). (various references) | |
Scottish | balt (a welt: See bolt). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zavrtanj (cotter bolt, screw bolt), zabraviti (lock), spojiti zavrtnjima, reza (hasp, latch), halapljivo gutati (engorge, ingurgitate, shark), čivija (linchpin, pin), šraf (screw). (various references) | |
Shona | chihuri (bolt lock). (various references) | |
Spanish | rollo (coil, jazz, reel, roll, spiel, twist), pestillo (catch, latch), perno (pin, pintle), empernar, cerrojo (latch). (various references) | |
Swedish | regla (fasten, latch), bult (peg, pin, screw, spike), skena (bar, rail, run away, runner, splint), regel (fastener, fastening, general, latch, law, maxim, order, precept, principle, regulation, rule), bom (bar, barrier, beam, boom, Derrick, fence, level-crossing gate, Miss, spar). (various references) | |
Thai | ใส่กลอนประตู (bar), แสงแปลบปลาบของฟ้าแล็บ, ไม่สนับสนุน, กลอนประตู (bar), วิ่งหนี, ม้วนผ้า. (various references) | |
Turkish | kilit dili (catch, ward), çiğnemeden yutmak, cıvata (Gib, pin bolt), elemek (annihilate, eliminate, riddle, screen, sieve, sift), fırlama (bound, ejection, flying off, goggle, jump, saltation, spring, start, zoom), fırlamak (boom, bounce, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), kısa ok, kaçış (escape, flight, getaway, let out), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw back, draw off, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw), kaçmak (abscond, blow, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), yıldırım (flash, lightning, streak of lightning, thunderbolt), sürgü (bar, bedpan, chamber pot, clack, cursor, Harrow, pusher, slide, sliding bar, urinal), sürgülemek (bar, close, fasten up), süzmek (clarify, contemplate, drain, eye, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, Leach, measure, percolate, settle, strain), tıkınmak (batten, cram, engorge, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingurgitate, put away, shift, stodge, stuff, stuff oneself, tuck in), tülbentten geçirmek, tüymek (bunk, flee, hook it, make a bolt for it, make oneself scarce, pull out, scuttle, sheer off, skedaddle, skip out, slink off, slip off, take a powder, take flight, take wing), top (ball, bowl, cannon, fagot, fairy, globe, gun, knob, pellet, pill, poof, pouf, pouffe, queen, rifle, roll), kaçınma (abstention, abstinence, avoidance, avoiding, elusion, evasion, forbearance, sidestep, sparing). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kiltlemek (hook the catch), kilt (catch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | утікати (break away), скріпляти болтами, складати (accumulate, aggregate, amount, compose, congregate, make, make up, number, redact, tot, wage), шворінь (kingpin), втеча (bunk, decampment, escapade, escape, escapement, get away, skedaddle), вистрілити (squeeze off), вибовкати (out-babble), засув (bar, catch, fast, fastener, hasp, latch, lock, sneck), зачиняти на засув (latch), летіти стрілою, болт (clincher, dag, pintle), блискавка (lightning). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thẳng như mũi rên, mũi tên cái then, máy sàng (bolter, riddle), cái sàng (riddle, sieve), cái rây. (various references) | |
Welsh | bolltio, bollt (bar), bario (bar), traflyncu (devour, gulp, guzzle), peillio (sift), dianc (abscond, escape). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | claustrum, clusuris, ictus, pessulum, pessulus, telum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ekalesen to paidarion autou ton proesthkota tou oikou autou kai eipen autw exaposteilate dh tauthn ap' emou exw kai apokleison thn quran opisw authV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sed vocato puero qui ministrabat ei dixit eice hanc a me foras et claude ostium post eam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he wolde not here hir; but the child clepide, that seruede to hym, he seide, Throw out this fro me, and close the dore after hir. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then he called his servant that ministered to him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then he gave a cry to the servant who was waiting on him and said, Put this woman out, and let the door be locked after her. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Unya gitawag ni Amnon ang sulogoon nga nagaalagad kaniya, ug miingon: Papahawaa karon kining babayehana gikan kanako, ug trangkahi ang pultahan sa iyang luyo. |
| Croatian | nego dozva momka koji ga je služio i zapovjedi mu: "Otjeraj ovu od mene, izbaci je i zakljuèaj vrata za njom!" |
| Danish | men kaldte på den unge Mand, der var hans Tjener, og sagde: "Få mig hende der ud af Huset og stæng Døren efter hende!" |
| Dutch | En hij riep zijn jongen, die hem diende, en zeide: Drijf nu deze van mij uit naar buiten, en grendel de deur achter haar toe. |
| Finnish | vaan huusi nuoren miehen, joka häntä palveli, ja sanoi: "Ajakaa ulos minun luotani tämä, ja lukitse ovi hänen jälkeensä". |
| French | Il ne voulut pas l`écouter, et appelant le garçon qui le servait, il dit: Qu`on éloigne de moi cette femme et qu`on la mette dehors. Et ferme la porte après elle! |
| German | sondern rief seinen Knaben, der sein Diener war, und sprach: Treibe diese von mir hinaus und schließe die Tür hinter ihr zu! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia memanggil pelayan pribadinya lalu berkata, "Bawalah perempuan ini ke luar, dan kuncilah pintu!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Melainkan dipanggilnya akan beberapa hambanya yang melayani dia, lalu katanya: Nyahkanlah sekarang perempuan ini dari padaku ke luar dan kancingkanlah pintu dari belakangnya. |
| Italian | Anzi, chiamato il giovane che lo serviva, gli disse: «Cacciami fuori costei e sprangale dietro il battente». |
| Maori | Katahi ka karangatia e ia tana tangata i mahi nei ki a ia, a ka mea, Tonoa atu tenei wahine i toku aroaro ki waho, whakarawatia hoki te tatau i muri i a ia. |
| Norwegian | Han kalte på den gutt som gikk ham til hånde, og sa: Jag denne kvinne ut på gaten og steng døren efter henne! |
| Rumanian | El n`a vrut s`o asculte wi, chemknd bqiatul care -i slujea, a zis: ,,Izgonewte dela mine pe femeia aceasta, scoate -o afarq, wi kncuie uwa dupq ea!`` |
| Swedish | Men han ville icke höra på henne, utan ropade på den unge man som han hade till tjänare och sade: "Driven denna kvinna ut härifrån, och rigla du dörren efter henne." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bolt": bolted, bolter, bolters, bolthead, boltheads, bolthole, boltholes, bolting, boltonia, boltonias, boltrope, boltropes, bolts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bolt": deadbolt, eyebolt, fishbolt, kingbolt, ringbolt, thunderbolt, unbolt. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bolt": deadbolts, eyebolts, fishbolts, kingbolts, ringbolts, thunderbolts, unbolted, unbolting, unbolts. (additional references) | |
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"Bolt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balt, balti, balto, bcot, belti, bilt, blo, blout, blov, Boalch, boet, boft, bogt, boilt, boit, bol, Bolet, bolete, bolg, bolm, bolp, bolr, Bolshi, bolte, Boltho, Boltz, bolu, Bolx, Bolz, bont, bopt, boqt, bort, bott, bovl, bowt, Boyt, Bulat, bulot, bult, obl, olt, yolt, zolt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bolt" (pronounced bō"lt) |
| 3 | -ō" l t | colt, Holt, jolt, Molt, revolt, volt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blot. | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-o-t" | |
-1 letter: bot, lob, lot. | |
-2 letters: bo, lo, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: bloat, blots, bolts, botel. | |
+2 letters: abvolt, ballot, bloats, blotch, blotto, blotty, boatel, bolete, boleti, bolted, bolter, botels, botfly, bottle, brulot, cobalt, goblet, lobate, oblast, oblate, sublot, tombal, unbolt. | |
+3 letters: abvolts, bailout, ballots, batfowl, bibelot, biltong, bloated, bloater, blotchy, blotted, blotter, blowout, boatels, boatful, bobtail, boldest, boletes, boletus, bolster, bolters, bolting, booklet, boomlet, bootleg, borstal, bottled, bottler, bottles, botulin, bristol, brothel, brulots, butanol, cobalts, doublet, eyebolt, flyboat, globate, goblets, holibut, inkblot, kilobit, lobated, lobster, noblest, notable, notably, oblasti, oblasts, oblates, orbital, outbawl, outbulk, potable, potboil, saltbox, strobil, sublots, subplot, tabloid, tabouli, tallboy, teabowl, temblor, tollbar, tombola, tombolo, toolbox, totable, trouble, unbolts, votable. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Frequency 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Cities 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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