Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bolt. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bolt.
Definitions and meaning of bolt
bolt
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA(key): /bɒlt/, /bəʊlt/, [bɔʊɫt]
(US) IPA(key): /boʊlt/
Rhymes: -əʊlt, -ɒlt
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishbolt, from Old Englishbolt, from Proto-West Germanic*bolt, from Proto-Germanic*bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European*bʰeld-(“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanianbeldu(“I knock”), baldas(“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, GermanBolz or Bolzen, Danishbolt, Swedishbult, Icelandicbolti.
Noun
bolt (pluralbolts)
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
→ Japanese: ボルト(boruto)
→ Maltese: bolt
→ Russian: болт(bolt)
→ Azerbaijani: bolt
→ Ingrian: boltta
Translations
See also
Verb
bolt (third-person singular simple presentbolts, present participlebolting, simple past and past participlebolted)
(transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
(transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
(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 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.
The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.
Derived terms
bolt upright
References
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishbulten, from Anglo-Normanbuleter, Old Frenchbulter (modern Frenchbluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High Germanbiuteln(“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic*buzdô(“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰūs-(“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutchbuidel.
Verb
bolt (third-person singular simple presentbolts, present participlebolting, simple past and past participlebolted)
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 (pluralbolts)
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, blót
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Borrowed from Russianболт(bolt), from Englishbolt.
Noun
bolt (definite accusativeboltu, pluralboltlar)
bolt, screw
Declension
Further reading
“bolt” in Obastan.com.
Danish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈb̥ʌlˀd̥]
Homophone: bold
Etymology 1
From Low Germanbolt, from Middle Low Germanbolte, from Old Saxonbolt, from Proto-West Germanic*bolt.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
bolt
imperative of bolte
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italianvolta(“vault”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈbolt]
Rhymes: -olt
Noun
bolt (pluralboltok)
shop (GB), store (US)(especially applied to relatively small shops in the countryside)
Synonyms:üzlet, áruház, kereskedés, 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
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 Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)