Bolt

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.
2. isim A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.

   “There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.”

3. isim 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.
4. isim A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
5. isim An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

   “He shall to prison, and there die in boults.”

6. isim A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).

   “All kinds of vegetables may be used as a topping, but the best are strongly flavoured ones without too much moisture, such as celery, garlic bolts, chives, scallions, or various beans (long beans, green beans etc.) ...”

7. isim A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.

   “Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods”

8. isim The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
9. isim 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.
10. isim A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)

    “He had seen lightning bolts yesterday night.”

11. isim A sudden event, action or emotion.

    “The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.”

12. isim A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.

    “The horse made a bolt.”

13. isim A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

    “This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America — or anywhere.”

14. isim A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
15. isim A burst of speed or efficiency.
16. fiil To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.

    “Bolt the vice to the bench.”

17. fiil To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.

    “Most languages are *not* based on C++. C++ is a complicated mess. It's C with object oriented features bolted on as an afterthought and no-one in their right mind would want to base another language on it.”

18. fiil To secure a door by locking or barring it.

    “Bolt the door.”

19. fiil To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.

    “Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.”

20. fiil To escape.
21. fiil To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).

    “to bolt a rabbit”

22. fiil To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

    “His cloudleſs thunder bolted on thir heads.”

23. fiil To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.

    “Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.”

24. fiil To swallow food without chewing it.

    “Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship’s decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them;”

25. fiil To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.

    “Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!”

26. fiil To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

    “John Silber charged that people who bolted the Democratic Party in this election are "Kamakaze ^([sic]) liberals", beneath contempt and clearly too stupid to deserve to vote.”

27. fiil To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

    “I hate when vice can bolt her arguments.”

28. zarf Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

    “The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.”

29. fiil To sift, especially through a cloth.
30. fiil To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.

    “Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.”