Bolt (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow |
Bolt (n.) Lightning |
Bolt (n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end. |
Bolt (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate |
Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner |
Bolt (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards. |
Bolt (n.) A bundle, as of oziers. |
Bolt (v. t.) To shoot |
Bolt (v. t.) To utter precipitately |
Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing |
Bolt (v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part. |
Bolt (v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth |
Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters |
Bolt (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow |
Bolt (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. |
Bolt (v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path |
Bolt (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected |
Bolt (adv.) In the manner of a bolt |
Bolt (v. i.) A sudden spring or start |
Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. |
Bolt (v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected |
Bolt (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter |
Bolt (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting |
Bolt (v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. |
Bolt (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal |
Distance (n.) The space between two objects |
Distance (n.) Remoteness of place |
Distance (n.) A space marked out in the last part of a race course. |
Distance (n.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear |
Distance (n.) Space between two antagonists in fencing. |
Distance (n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape. |
Distance (n.) Ideal disjunction |
Distance (n.) Length or interval of time |
Distance (n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires |
Distance (n.) A withholding of intimacy |
Distance (n.) Remoteness in succession or relation |
Distance (n.) The interval between two notes |
Distance (v. t.) To place at a distance or remotely. |
Distance (v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance |
Distance (v. t.) To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3) |
Wrain-bolt (n.) Same as Wringbolt. |
bolt | a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) |
dash bolt | the act of moving with great haste, he made a dash for the door |
bolt | a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener |
bolt deadbolt | the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key |
bolt | a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech |
bolt | a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length |
bolt cutter | an implement for cutting bolts |
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 |
lag screw lag bolt | a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench |
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 |
nut and bolt | a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt |
safety bolt safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
stove bolt | a small machine bolt |
toggle bolt | a fastener consisting of a threaded bolt and a hinged spring-loaded toggle, used to fasten objects to hollow walls |
even spacing | regularity of spacing |
spacing spatial arrangement | the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them |
distance | the property created by the space between two objects or points |
mean distance | the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary |
focal distance focal length | the distance from a lens to its focus |
hyperfocal distance | the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear |
distance length | size of the gap between two places, the distance from New York to Chicago, he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points |
skip distance | the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere |
distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background |
long distance long-distance call trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
double-spacing | typing that leaves alternate lines blank |
single-spacing | typing that does not leave lines blank |
triple-spacing | typing that leaves two lines blank between lines of typing |
nuts and bolts | detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished |
distance aloofness | indifference by personal withdrawal, emotional distance |
distance | a distant region, I could see it in the distance |
bolt-hole | a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den |
marathoner marathon runner road runner long-distance runner | someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) |
thunderbolt bolt bolt of lightning | a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder |
angular distance | the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer, he recorded angular distances between the stars |
distance space | the interval between two times, the distance from birth to death, it all happened in the space ofminutes |
distance | a remote point in time, if that happens it will be at some distance in the future, at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details |
spacing | the time between occurrences of a repeating event, some women do not control the spacing of their children |
bolt | make or roll into bolts, bolt fabric |
gobble bolt | eat hastily without proper chewing, Don't bolt your food! |
garbage down gobble up shovel in bolt down | eat a large amount of food quickly, The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake |
toss off pop bolt down belt down pour down down drink down kill | drink down entirely, He downed three martinis before dinner, She killed a bottle of brandy that night, They popped a few beer after work |
bolt | swallow hastily |
bolt | secure or lock with a bolt, bolt the door |
bolt | move or jump suddenly, She bolted from her seat |
run off run out bolt bolt out beetle off | 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 |
abscond bolt absquatulate decamp run off go off make off | run away, usually includes taking something or somebody along, The thief made off with our silver, the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe |
outdistance outstrip distance | go far ahead of, He outdistanced the other runners |
stand back keep one's eyes off keep one's distance keep one's hands off stay away | stay clear of, avoid, Keep your hands off my wife!, Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous |