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BOLT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bolt" is a kind of...):
abandonment; desertion; forsaking (the act of giving something up)
Domain category:
government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)
Derivation:
bolt (run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of moving with great haste
Example:
he made a dash for the door
Synonyms:
bolt; dash
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bolt" is a kind of...):
haste; hurry; rush; rushing (the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner)
Derivation:
bolt (move or jump suddenly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bolt" is a kind of...):
screw (a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head)
Meronyms (parts of "bolt"):
clinch (the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet)
head (a projection out from one end)
shank (cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bolt"):
carriage bolt (a roundheaded bolt for timber; threaded along part of the shank; inserted into holes already drilled)
expansion bolt (a bolt that has an attachment that expands as the bolt is driven into a surface)
kingbolt; kingpin; swivel pin (bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle)
machine bolt (a bolt with a square or hexagonal head on one end and a threaded shaft on the other end; tightened with a wrench; used to connect metal parts)
stove bolt (a small machine bolt)
Holonyms ("bolt" is a part of...):
nut and bolt (a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
Synonyms:
bolt; deadbolt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bolt" is a kind of...):
bar (a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bolt"):
safety bolt; safety lock (a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate)
Holonyms ("bolt" is a part of...):
lock (a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed)
Derivation:
bolt (secure or lock with a bolt)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bolt" is a kind of...):
bar (a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon)
Holonyms ("bolt" is a part of...):
rifle (a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bolt" is a kind of...):
roll (anything rolled up in cylindrical form)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
Synonyms:
bolt; bolt of lightning; thunderbolt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("bolt" is a kind of...):
lightning (abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they bolt ... he / she / it bolts
Past simple: bolted
Past participle: bolted
-ing form: bolting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make or roll into bolts
Example:
bolt fabric
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "bolt" is one way to...):
furl; roll up (form into a cylinder by rolling)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Eat hastily without proper chewing
Example:
Don't bolt your food!
Synonyms:
bolt; gobble
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "bolt" is one way to...):
eat (take in solid food)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They bolt more bread
Sense 3
Meaning:
Swallow hastily
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "bolt" is one way to...):
get down; swallow (pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Secure or lock with a bolt
Example:
bolt the door
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "bolt" is one way to...):
lock (fasten with a lock)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Antonym:
unbolt (undo the bolt of)
Derivation:
bolt (the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Move or jump suddenly
Example:
She bolted from her seat
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "bolt" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Derivation:
bolt (the act of moving with great haste)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
Example:
When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out
Synonyms:
beetle off; bolt; bolt out; run off; run out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "bolt" is one way to...):
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 7
Meaning:
Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
Example:
the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe
Synonyms:
abscond; absquatulate; bolt; decamp; go off; make off; run off
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "bolt" is one way to...):
flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bolt"):
levant (run off without paying a debt)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
bolt (a sudden abandonment (as from a political party))
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a rigid manner
Example:
he sat bolt upright
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
Directly
Example:
ran slap into her
Synonyms:
bang; bolt; slap; slapdash; smack
Classified under:
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples:
Alarmed, but not discouraged, she tried it another way; a bolt flew, and she believed herself successful; but how strangely mysterious!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A method of euthanasia whereby a subject is shot in the brain with a captive bolt pistol causing immediate and permanent unconsciousness or death, followed by draining the body of blood.
(Captive Bolt and Exsanguination Euthanasia, NCI Thesaurus)
Stand aside, Arnaud, lest you find a bolt through your gizzard.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I know them with their puttied seams and their devil bolts, risking five hundred lives that they may steal a few pounds’ worth of copper.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I slipped the bolt at once, and we stood and panted for a moment in the dark, alone in the house with the dead captain's body.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness for ever.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A threaded fastener designed to engage a bolt.
(Nut Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
It is certainly bolted as well as locked.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
True, we did not know whence, or how, or when, the bolt would come; but I think we all expected that something strange would happen.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Well! Uriah,” said I, bolting it out with some difficulty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
