Bolt

[bəʊlt] or [bolt]

解释:

(noun.) a sudden abandonment (as from a political party).

(noun.) a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener.

(noun.) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key.

(noun.) a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech.

(noun.) a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length.

(verb.) make or roll into bolts; 'bolt fabric'.

(verb.) swallow hastily.

(verb.) secure or lock with a bolt; 'bolt the door'.

(verb.) move or jump suddenly; 'She bolted from her seat'.

编辑:丽诺尔--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.

(n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt.

(n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.

(n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.

(n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

(n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.

(n.) A bundle, as of oziers.

(v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

(v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

(v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.

(v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.

(v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

(v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.

(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 strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

(v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.

(v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

(adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

(v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.

(v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

(v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.

(v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

(v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.

(v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

(n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Arrow, dart, shaft.[2]. Thunderbolt, stroke of lightning.[3]. Pin (of large size).[4]. Sieve.

v. a. [1]. Fasten with a bolt.[2]. Swallow (without chewing).[3]. Sift, pass through a sieve.

v. n. [1]. Bounce, start suddenly, spring out abruptly.[2]. [U. S.] Rat, abscond, withdraw (especially from a political party), desert suddenly.

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解释:

n. a bar or pin used to fasten a door &c.: an arrow: a thunderbolt as in 'a bolt from the blue.'—v.t. to fasten with a bolt: to throw or utter precipitately: to expel suddenly: to swallow hastily.—v.i. to rush away (like a bolt from a bow): to start up: (U.S.) to break away from one's political party.—ns. Bolt′-head the head of a bolt: a chemical flask; Bolt′-rope a rope sewed all round the edge of a sail to prevent it from tearing; Bolt′sprit (same as Bowsprit).—adv. Bolt′-up′right upright and straight as a bolt or arrow.—n. Bolt′-up′rightness.

v.t. (better spelling Boult) to sift to separate the bran from as flour: to examine by sifting: to sift through coarse cloth.—ns. Bolt′er a sieve: a machine for separating bran from flour; Bolt′ing the process by which anything is bolted or sifted; Bolt′ing-hutch a hutch or large box into which flour falls when it is bolted.

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