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 |
Butt hinge
() See 1st Butt, 10. |
Hinge
(n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings |
Hinge
(n.) That on which anything turns or depends |
Hinge
(n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south. |
Hinge
(v. t.) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges. |
Hinge
(v. t.) To bend. |
Hinge
(v. i.) To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge |
Link
(n.) A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like. |
Link
(n.) A single ring or division of a chain. |
Link
(n.) Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things |
Link
(n.) Anything doubled and closed like a link |
Link
(n.) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained. |
Link
(n.) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end |
Link
(n.) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. Cf. Chain, n., 4. |
Link
(n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms |
Link
(n.) Sausages |
Link
(v. t.) To connect or unite with a link or as with a link |
Link
(v. i.) To be connected. |
Link motion
() A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will |
Pivot
(n.) A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns. |
Pivot
(n.) The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support |
Pivot
(n.) Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition |
Pivot
(n.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling |
Pivot
(v. t.) To place on a pivot. |
Wrain-bolt
(n.) Same as Wringbolt. |
| pivot shot | a one-handed basketball shot made while whirling on the pivot foot |
| bolt | a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) |
| pivot | the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot, the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot |
| 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 |
booster booster amplifier
booster station
relay link
relay station
relay transmitter | an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal |
| butt hinge | a hinge mortised flush into the edge of the door and jamb |
| 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 |
hinge
flexible joint | a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other |
knuckle joint
hinge joint | a joint allowing movement in one plane only |
lag screw
lag bolt | a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench |
link
linkup
tie tie-in | a fastener that serves to join or connect, the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction |
| link data link | an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data |
| Link trainer | an early form of flight simulator |
| 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 |
pivot
pin | axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns |
radio link
link | a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave), part of a more extensive telecommunication network |
remote terminal
link-attached terminal
remote station
link-attached station | a terminal connected to a computer by a data link |
safety bolt
safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
| stove bolt | a small machine bolt |
strap hinge
joint hinge | a hinge with two long straps, one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame |
tee hinge
T hinge | a hinge that looks like the letter T when it is opened, similar to a strap hinge except that one strap has been replaced by half of a butt hinge that can be mortised flush into the stationary frame |
| toggle bolt | a fastener consisting of a threaded bolt and a hinged spring-loaded toggle, used to fasten objects to hollow walls |
hinge joint
ginglymus
ginglymoid joint | a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane |
pivot joint
rotary joint
rotatory joint
articulatio trochoidea | a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation, the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint |
| pins and needles | a sharp tingling sensation from lack of circulation |
liaison
link
contact
inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
| link | (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list |
| nuts and bolts | detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished |
| bolt-hole | a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den |
missing link
ape-man | hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings |
pivot
pivot man | the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver |
cross-link
cross-linkage | a side bond that links two adjacent chains of atoms in a complex molecule |
thunderbolt
bolt
bolt of lightning | a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder |
| link | a unit of length equal to
of a chain |
link
nexus | the means of connection between things linked in series |
connection
connexion
link | a connecting shape |
| hinge | a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend, his absence is the hinge of our plan |
connection
link
connectedness | the state of being connected, the connection between church and state is inescapable |
| bolt | make or roll into bolts, bolt fabric |
associate
tie in
relate
link
colligate link up
connect | make a logical or causal connection, I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind, colligate these facts, I cannot relate these events at all |
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 |