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 |
Cross (n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. |
Cross (n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material |
Cross (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue |
Cross (n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped |
Cross (n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross |
Cross (n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place |
Cross (n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above. |
Cross (n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write. |
Cross (n.) Church lands. |
Cross (n.) A line drawn across or through another line. |
Cross (n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding |
Cross (n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. |
Cross (n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. |
Cross (a.) Not parallel |
Cross (a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected |
Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor |
Cross (a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation |
Cross (prep.) Athwart |
Cross (v. t.) To put across or athwart |
Cross (v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across |
Cross (v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of |
Cross (v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. |
Cross (v. t.) To run counter to |
Cross (v. t.) To interfere and cut off |
Cross (v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon |
cross-fertilization cross-fertilisation | interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial, the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts |
cross-pollination | stimulating influence among diverse elements, the cross-pollination of the arts |
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 |
double cross doublerossing | an act of betrayal, he gave us the old double cross, I could no longer tolerate his impudent doublerossing |
hybridization hybridisation crossbreeding crossing cross interbreeding hybridizing | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids |
dihybrid cross | hybridization using two traits with two alleles each |
monohybrid cross | hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) |
reciprocal cross reciprocal | hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype |
transvestism transvestitism cross dressing | the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex |
Stations Stations of the Cross | (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary |
hybrid crossbreed cross | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock, especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species, a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey |
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 |
Calvary cross cross of Calvary | a Latin cross set on three steps |
carriage bolt | a roundheaded bolt for timber, threaded along part of the shank, inserted into holes already drilled |
Celtic cross | a Latin cross with a ring surrounding the intersection |
Cross | a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified, used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry |
cross | a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece |
cross bit | a rock drill having cruciform cutting edges, used in mining |
cross hair cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
cross-stitch | embroidery done with pairs of stitches that cross each other |
cross-stitch | two stitches forming a cross or X |
cross street | a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it |
expansion bolt | a bolt that has an attachment that expands as the bolt is driven into a surface |
Greek cross | a cross with each of the four arms the same length |
half cross stitch | a single cross stitch at a diagonal |
Jerusalem cross | a cross with equal arms, each terminating in a small crossbar |
lag screw lag bolt | a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench |
Latin cross | a cross with the lowest arm being longer than the others |
Lorraine cross cross of Lorraine | a cross with two crossbars, one above and one below the midpoint of the vertical, the lower longer than the upper |
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 |
Maltese cross | a cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the center |
nut and bolt | a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt |
papal cross | a cross with three crossbars |
patriarchal cross | a cross with two crossbars |
safety bolt safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
St. Andrew's cross saltire | a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length |
Station of the Cross | a representation of any of the stages in Christ's journey to Calvary |
stove bolt | a small machine bolt |
tau cross St. Anthony's cross | cross resembling the Greek letter tau |
thwart cross thwart | a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat, used as a seat in a rowboat |
toggle bolt | a fastener consisting of a threaded bolt and a hinged spring-loaded toggle, used to fasten objects to hollow walls |
crisscross cross mark | a marking that consists of lines that cross each other |
cross section | (physics) the probability that a particular interaction (as capture or ionization) will take place between particles, measured in barns |
crosslassification cross-division | classification according to more than one attribute at the same time, the crosslassification of cases was done by age and sex |
cross section | a sample meant to be representative of a whole population |