English Online Dictionary. What means bolt? What does bolt mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɒlt/, /bəʊlt/, [bɔʊɫt]
- (US) IPA(key): /boʊlt/
- Rhymes: -əʊlt, -ɒlt
Etymology 1
From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“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.
- 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.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- (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.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Irish: bolta
- → Japanese: ボルト (boruto)
- → Maltese: bolt
- → Russian: болт (bolt)
- → Azerbaijani: bolt
- → Ingrian: boltta
- → Scottish Gaelic: bolta
Translations
See also
Verb
bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
- (transitive) 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.
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
bolt (not comparable)
- Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
Derived terms
- bolt upright
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 *bʰūs- (“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.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
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.
References
- “bolt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
- blot, Tbol, blót, TBol
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian болт (bolt), from English bolt.
Noun
bolt (definite accusative boltu, plural boltlar)
- bolt, screw
Declension
Further reading
- “bolt” in Obastan.com.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈb̥ʌlˀd̥]
- 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
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
bolt
- imperative of bolte
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian volta (“vault”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbolt]
- Rhymes: -olt
Noun
bolt (plural boltok)
- shop (GB), store (US) (especially applied to relatively small shops in the countryside)
- Synonyms: üzlet, áruház, kereskedés, (mostly in compounds) árus
- Hyponyms: ábécé, butik, cukrászda, diszkont, étterem, gyógyszertár, kávézó, kocsma, közért, papír-írószer, pékség, piac, pláza, presszó, szalon (as a second element in compounds), teázó, trafik, újságos, vendéglő, zöldséges
- (folksy) Synonym of élelmiszerbolt, közért (“grocery store”).
- (informal) deal (a particular instance of trading [buying or selling; exchanging; bartering]; a transaction)
- vault (arched ceiling)
- Synonyms: boltozat, boltív, bolthajtás
Declension
Derived terms
(Note: Most compounds with üzlet as an affix in the sense ’shop/store’ can be expressed with bolt.)
Further reading
- (vault): bolt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (shop, store): bolt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bolt in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Maltese
Etymology
Borrowed from English bolt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔlt/
Noun
bolt m (plural boltijiet)
- bolt (metal fastener)
Related terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Middle Norwegian boltr, 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/, [boɫt]
Noun
bolt m
- bolt
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: bolt
- English: bolt
- → Irish: bolta
- → Japanese: ボルト (boruto)
- → Maltese: bolt
- → Russian: болт (bolt)
- → Azerbaijani: bolt
- → Ingrian: boltta
- → Scottish Gaelic: bolta
- → Welsh: bollt
- English: bolt