Look up: bolt

1. Bolt
   the tendency of cool-season plants to grow rapidly and produce seeds when exposed to warm temperatures.
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2. Bolt
   Annual vegetables or flowers that grow quickly to flowering stage, at the expense of their best overall development, and go to seed (i.e. dill in hot weather).
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3. Bolt
   Lengths: 40 yards. 32 ells. Measurement of cloth.
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4. bolt
   [n] - a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length 2. [n] - a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech 3. [n] - the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key 4. [n] - a screw that screws into a n...
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5. Bolt
   A cylindrical threaded fastener. See also: Nut, Screw, Thread.
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6. Bolt
   A bolt is the term used for a threaded fastener, with a head, designed to be used in conjunction with a nut.
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7. bolt
   any cylindrical screw with head which is used with a nut; there is an unthreaded portion between the thread and the head Category: Mechanical engineering • to fasten with one or more bolts Category: Mechanical engineering • cylindrical in shape,with a close and only slightly ...
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8. Bolt
   Bolt noun [ Anglo-Saxon bolt ; akin to Icelandic bolti , Danish bolt , Dutch bout , Old High German bolz , German bolz , bolzen ; of uncertain origin.] 1. A shaft or missile intended to be shot...
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9. Bolt
   Bolt transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bolted ; present participle & verbal noun Bolting .] 1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth. 2. To utter precipitately...
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10. Bolt
    Bolt (bōlt; 110) intransitive verb 1. To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room. « This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush do...
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11. Bolt
    Bolt adverb In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly. « [ He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon. Thackeray. » Bolt upright . (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendi...
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12. Bolt
    Bolt noun [ From Bolt , intransitive verb ] 1. A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt . 2. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. « This gentleman was s...
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13. Bolt
    Bolt transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bolted ; present participle & verbal noun Bolting .] [ Middle English bolten , boulten , Old French buleter , Frenc...
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14. Bolt
    Bolt noun A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson.
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15. bolt
    noun a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
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16. bolt
    noun a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
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17. bolt
    verb make or roll into bolts; `bolt fabric`
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18. bolt
    verb secure or lock with a bolt; `bolt the door`
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19. bolt
    verb move or jump suddenly; `She bolted from her seat`
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20. bolt
    noun the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
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21. bolt
    beetle off verb 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`
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22. Bolt
    Used for listed equity securities. Block trading version of COLT.
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23. Bolt
    • (v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth. • (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room. • (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; ...
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24. bolt
    (from the article `military technology`) ...the crossbow had serious tactical deficiencies. First, ordinary crossbows for field operations (as opposed to heavy siege crossbows) were ... leading missile weapon of the Middle Ages, consisting of a short bow fixed transversely on a stock, originally of wood; it had a groove to guide the .....
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25. bolt
    mechanical fastener that is usually used with a nut for connecting two or more parts. A bolted joint can be readily disassembled and reassembled; for ... [2 related articles]
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