What's the difference between bole and bolt?

Bole


Definition:

  • (n.) The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
  • (n.) An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
  • (n.) A measure. See Boll, n., 2.
  • (n.) Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
  • (n.) A bolus; a dose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The associated underground extraction takes place very deep below the Earth's surface, over a wide geographical area," Boles said.
  • (2) Under Right to Build, announced by the former housing minister Nick Boles in July, individuals will have the right to register their interest in building their own home and the local authority will have a duty to ensure that suitable affordable plots are made available by granting planning consents and working with local registered providers such as housing associations.
  • (3) I said to Nick Boles, who at the time was the planning minister, ‘Have you been down to Eastleigh yet?’ and he said, ‘I’m told I’m not allowed to go down in case it inflames the whole housebuilding issue’.
  • (4) To stop a beam in the target computer-assisted three-dimensional design and heterogeneity calculations were performed; computed compensatory boles were produced.
  • (5) A series of Tory figures have canvassed the possibility of a formal or informal pact, including leading backbencher Nicholas Boles, former prime minister John Major and leader of the Lords, Lord Strathclyde.
  • (6) I said to Nick Boles, who at the time was the planning minister, ‘Have you been down to Eastleigh yet?’ and he said, ‘I’m told I’m not allowed to go down in case it inflames the whole housebuilding issue.’” Browne added: “The public, whether it’s the NHS or housebuilding, detect that gap, and you will see it now at constituency level with quite debased leaflet-based campaigning about what the parties are going to stop at local level, which is almost completely at odds with the macro-level speeches that the leaders are making up in Westminster.
  • (7) As planning minister Nick Boles discovered last week, when he talked about building 100,000 new homes on two million acres of countryside, building more houses can be controversial.
  • (8) The idea that he'd have been better off spending the day trooping around a shopping centre is nonsense," says Nicholas Boles, chair of the Cameronite Policy Exchange thinktank.
  • (9) Benn said he agreed with the planning minister, Nick Boles, that "we can't carry on moaning about the difficulty our children are facing in finding somewhere to live while opposing all planning applications for new housing".
  • (10) It is the same, incidentally, whenever the planning minister, Nick Boles, says fields are overrated and the green belt should be built on.
  • (11) Mathematical models of bole and branch form are presented, based on the proposition that either wind or gravity are the primary limiting factors for tree size and shape.
  • (12) At the time that the same sex marriage act was passed the equalities minister, Nick Boles, said: “I know how important it is for couples to have the option of marriage available to them.
  • (13) Nick Boles, planning minister, called last year for 2-3% of the UK's open land to be built on to create enough homes for people, while last week the environment secretary Owen Paterson told the Times he supported "newt credits", by which developers could offset any environmental damage in one area by funding environmental improvements elsewhere.
  • (14) The business minister Nick Boles said: “These changes will also simplify the law for businesses so they can spend less time worrying about unclear and unwieldy regulations.” Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: “Consumer law was crying out to be brought up to date to cope with the requirements and demands of today’s shoppers.
  • (15) Green-belt land in England should be freed up for new housing developments, according to a centre-right thinktank established by the new planning minister, Nick Boles.
  • (16) It would mean a "disproportionately large number of individuals and businesses" would have to be personally informed, Boles told MPs in a written statement.
  • (17) Last week, the Tory MP Nick Boles gave a speech in which he lauded Johnson's popularity in a climate where "there is a substantial group of people who will literally not even contemplate voting Conservative".
  • (18) Instead, Francis Maude , the Cabinet Office minister and one of the thinktank's founders, will make a speech recalling how, back in 2002, Policy Exchange, under the aegis of its first director, Nick Boles, was conceived to fill an intellectual void on the centre right.
  • (19) Many proposals by Policy Exchange, founded by a group including ministers Michael Gove, Francis Maude and Nick Boles, have found their way into Conservative manifestos in the past.
  • (20) At 27, he has worked in hotels, for the Aldi supermarket and for the Tory MPs Mark Spencer and Nick Boles.

Bolt


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
  • (2) I’m just going to prepare myself for next year, for the Olympics and come out even stronger.” Questioned over Bolt’s joking accusation, Gatlin added: “I want my money back.
  • (3) A handful of the global superstars – Usain Bolt and now Mo Farah – have enhanced their personal value, but most have driven themselves relentlessly for the glory alone.
  • (4) The treatment consisted of bolting the capitular epiphysis (head) of the femur with a homologous bone chip.
  • (5) Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door.
  • (6) While there are smiles in the Ennis-Hill household, the organisers of the Commonwealth Games will be ruing the loss of a major star – especially as Britain's 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah has admitted that the games are "not on my list" for 2014, and the 100m world record holder Usain Bolt is yet to commit.
  • (7) The bolt penetrated deeply into the pelvis, through the acetabulum, the joint cavity and the head of the femur leading to fixation of the hip.
  • (8) The prince has, after all, hardly kept his hobby horses bolted up in the stables over the years.
  • (9) The etiology was the following: 34 wounds by knife, 3 due to ricocheted bolt and 16 by abdominal contusions.
  • (10) Fragmentation also caused more brain damage and inhibition of spinal reflexes than a solid free bullet or captive bolt.
  • (11) Locking both nails with a threaded pin and two bolts limits the secondary depression of the fracture by the S-shaped lateral nail.
  • (12) Virgin Media has signed up as a top-tier sponsorship partner of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games , with the expectation that brand ambassadors and Olympic champions Mo Farah and Usain Bolt will front a major advertising campaign next year to support the deal.
  • (13) After the films have been approved, the lateral film holder bolts on top of the AP film holder.
  • (14) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
  • (15) Bolt's record-setting runs were quantum leaps, in the truest sense of the term: a shift from one state to another, without passing through the conventional intermediate stages.
  • (16) We all have a duty to raise money as a member for parliament.” Bolt persisted by asking: “I want to know.
  • (17) It is shameful.” Brandis and Abbott promised the changes before the election as a result of the case against the conservative columnist Andrew Bolt.
  • (18) A News Ltd columnist and political commentator, Andrew Bolt, who was found to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act in two articles he wrote in 2009, was among those to have blamed Goodes and the Indigenous round incident for his recent treatment.
  • (19) "Flush anything nasty away and then lock them with the bolts at the top."
  • (20) The effects were calculated for the detection of sounds of enemy personnel (speech, movement noises) or their equipment (rifle bolt, tank, generator).