[
UK
/bˈəʊlt/
]
[ US /ˈboʊɫt/ ]
[ US /ˈboʊɫt/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a rigid manner
the body was rigidly erect
he sat bolt upright
he sat bolt upright -
directly
he ran bang into the pole
ran slap into her
VERB
-
make or roll into bolts
bolt fabric -
move or jump suddenly
She bolted from her seat -
secure or lock with a bolt
bolt the door -
leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas
When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out - swallow hastily
-
eat hastily without proper chewing
Don't bolt your food! -
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
The thief made off with our silver
the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe
NOUN
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
-
the act of moving with great haste
he made a dash for the door - the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
How To Use bolt In A Sentence
- The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
- Don't bolt your food down like that; it's rude.
- This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
- Many of the ideas presented are on the cutting edge and deal with anything from abstract concepts to fiddlehead ferns, from a number to numeral, from software to the nuts and bolts of a computer.
- The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
- This green bucket lark is a joke, and I am sure that every large family in Bolton will agree when I say that I can fill this in a couple of days, and you think that I can go a fortnight between collections?
- It will be wormed throughout, and parcelled in the wake of the housing-bolt and frapping lashing, and where there is no swell, in the wake of the muzzle-ring. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
- But the demands of success hit them like a bolt of lightning. The Sun
- He shoot the bolt as soon as he came in.
- You can upgrade your already present cannon or purchase new weapon types including plasma bolts, lasers, flame-throwers and grenades.
