bolt

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Definizione monolingua bolt



bolt


Verb

bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)


  1. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
    Bolt the vice to the bench.
  2. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
    Bolt the door.
  3. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
    Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
    The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
  4. (intransitive) To escape.
  5. (intransitive) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
    Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.
  6. To swallow food without chewing it.
    • 1859 Darwin, Charles, On the Origin of Species, ch 11, p 362:
      Some hawks and owls bolt their prey whole, and after an interval of from twelve to twenty hours disgorge pellets.
  7. To drink ones drink very quickly; to down a drink.
    Come on everyone - bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!
  8. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
    Graham flour is unbolted flour.
Noun

bolt (plural bolts)


  1. 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. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
    • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
      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. 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. A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
  5. A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult, especially a short, stout arrow.
  6. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
  7. A sudden event, action or emotion.
    The problems solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.
    • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
      With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
  8. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
  9. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.


Definizione italiano>inglese bolt


bullone
  Vite su cui si avvita un dado.
blocco
catenaccio
chiavistello
chiudere a chiave
chiudere col catenaccio
dardo
freccia
fulmine
imbullonare
lucchetto
paletto
scappare
serrare
serratura
sprangare
vite

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