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 |
Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle |
Center (n.) The middle or central portion of anything. |
Center (n.) A principal or important point of concentration |
Center (n.) The earth. |
Center (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left. |
Center (n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting. |
Center (n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves. |
Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe. |
Center (v. i.) Alt. of Centre |
Center (v. t.) Alt. of Centre |
Mounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mount |
Mounting (n.) The act of one that mounts. |
Mounting (n.) That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage |
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 |
center field centerfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield |
center | a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game |
center | (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play, it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback |
center | the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
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 |
burn center | a center where patients with severe burns can be treated |
call center call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers) |
carriage bolt | a roundheaded bolt for timber, threaded along part of the shank, inserted into holes already drilled |
center centre | a building dedicated to a particular activity, they were raising money to build a new center for research |
center bit centre bit | a bit with a sharp center point for guidance and two side cutters |
center field centerfield center | the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher, he hit the ball to deep center |
center punch | a tool with a conical point that is used to make indentations in metal (especially to mark points for drilling) |
community center civic center | a center where the members of a community can gather for social or cultural activities |
conference center conference house | a center where conferences can be conducted |
control center | the operational center for a group of related activities, the general in command never left the control center |
day nursery day care center | a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work |
entertainment center | a wall unit containing sound and television systems |
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 |
mounting | framework used for support or display |
nut and bolt | a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt |
plaza mall center shopping mall shopping center shopping centre | mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers, usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area, a modern version of the traditional marketplace, a good plaza should have a movie house, they spent their weekends at the local malls |
research center research facility | a center where research is done |
safety bolt safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
stove bolt | a small machine bolt |
student center | a center for student activities at a college or university |
toggle bolt | a fastener consisting of a threaded bolt and a hinged spring-loaded toggle, used to fasten objects to hollow walls |
World Trade Center WTC twin towers | twin skyscrapersstories high in New York City, built feet tall into , destroyed by a terrorist attack on September , |
dead center dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
center of curvature centre of curvature | the center of the circle of curvature |
center centre nerve center nerve centre | a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process, in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere |
auditory center | the part of the brain (in a fold of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain) that receives impulses from the ear by way of the auditory nerve |
Broca's area Broca's center Broca's gyrus Broca's convolution convolution of Broca | the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people |
Wernicke's area Wernicke's center | the auditory word center, located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people |
respiratory center | the center in the medulla oblongata and pons that integrates sensory information about the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood and determines the signals to be sent to the respiratory muscles |
center centre center of attention centre of attention | the object upon which interest and attention focuses, his stories made him the center of the party |
kernel substance core center centre essence gist heart heart and soul inwardness marrow meat nub pith sum nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
center spread centre spread | the spread at the center of a magazine |
climb climbing mounting | an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) |
center centre | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering |
Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC | a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, located in Atlanta, investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases) |
Counterterrorist Center CTC | an agency that helps the Director of Central Intelligence coordinate counterterrorist efforts in order to preempt and disrupt and defeat terrorist activities at the earliest possible stage |