bolt
To connect or assemble pieces using a boltTo connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
» It's too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
После драки кулаками не машут.
Після бійки кулаками не махають.
Meaning
16 senses(transitive)To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
Bolt the vice to the bench.
anschrauben, zusammenschrauben, verschrauben
скрепи́тьskrepítʹ, приви́нчиватьprivínčivatʹ, привинти́тьprivintítʹ
(figuratively, transitive)To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
(transitive)To secure a bolt or bolts; to lock using a bolt.
Bolt the door.
verriegeln, zuriegeln, abriegeln
secure or lock with a bolt
(intransitive)To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
wegspringen, davonspringen, springen
давать дёраdavatʹ djóra, дать дёраdatʹ djóra
(intransitive)To escape.
entkommen, davonspringen, davonjagen
(transitive)To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
to bolt a rabbit
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
(intransitive)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.
(transitive)To swallow food without chewing it.
schlingen, verschlingen, hinunterschlingen
eat hastily without proper chewing
(transitive)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!
schießen, in die Höhe schießen
(US)To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
Examples
172 sentencesIt's too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Після бійки кулаками не махають.
ruПосле драки кулаками не машут.
I tightened the bolts.
Я підтягнув болти.
ruЯ затянул болты.
This bolt broke.
Цей болт зламався.
The door bolts on the inside.
deDie Türe verriegelt die Innenseite.
You need to tighten that bolt.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 6
Origin
From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from ProtFrom Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.
From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.
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Forms
bolts, bolting, bolted, boltedPhrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsSynonyms
10 synonymsAntonyms
1 antonymsWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle