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Substantiivit
- 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 sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- 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.
- 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.
Verbit
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- (legal) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (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.
Adverbit
- Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
Esimerkit
- This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, [...] / And oft out of a bush doth bolt.
- Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.
- ill schooled in bolted language
- Graham flour is unbolted flour.
- [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.
- The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.
- I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments.
- Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!
- Some hawks and owls bolt their prey whole, and after an interval of from twelve to twenty hours disgorge pellets.
- To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. [...] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.
- Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.
- His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.
- to bolt a rabbit
- There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.
- The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
- Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
- If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due; for already she is on the threshold.
- Bolt the door.
- Bolt the vice to the bench.
- Away with him to prison! Lay bolts enough upon him.
- This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America — or anywhere.
- The horse made a bolt.
- Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything betokened that the ship’s preparations were hurrying to a close.
- 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.
- The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | bolted | Imperfekti | bolted |
| Partisiipin preesens | bolting | Monikko | bolts |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | bolts | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | bolteth (vanhahtava) |