What's the difference between bolt and colt?

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  • (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.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

Colt


Definition:

  • (n.) The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.
  • (n.) A young, foolish fellow.
  • (n.) A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.
  • (v. i.) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
  • (v. t.) To horse; to get with young.
  • (v. t.) To befool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its current troubles are in part due to the fact that Colt lost out on the M4 US army contract to FN Herstal in 2013.
  • (2) Complete esophageal impaction developed when the colt ate solid material.
  • (3) A yearling Quarter Horse colt was examined because of intermittent esophageal obstruction.
  • (4) Two weeks later the Colts would prevail 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI.
  • (5) A 6-month-old Appaloosa colt had a deviation of the premaxilla and nasal septum as well as a dorsal hump of the nasal bone and maxillomandibular malocclusion.
  • (6) Tebow signed for the Jets in March 2012 , after it became clear that the Broncos – who he had rescued from a 1-4 start to 2011 and taken to an 8-8 finish and a playoff run that was ended by the Patriots – would sign the Indianapolis Colts great Peyton Manning.
  • (7) The Patriots eventually beat the Colts 43-22, but it wasn't quite the romp that that final tally would suggest, as the Colts cut it to a one-score game in the third quarter.
  • (8) But his capacity to digest playbooks is unrivalled – allowing Manning to lead the Colts offence in a way quite unlike other NFL quarterbacks: operating almost exclusively without a huddle and calling his plays at the line.
  • (9) The monkey finally off their back, Manning and the Colts would return to the Super Bowl three years later, though this time they would be defeated by Drew Brees and the underdog New Orleans Saints.
  • (10) For instance, Colt Defence sells a lot of guns for military purposes.
  • (11) Although retention times by all colts were similar, cold-housed colts digested more ADF and less phosphorus (P) than did warm-housed colts (P less than .05).
  • (12) New England Patriots 43-22 Indianapolis Colts - as it happened
  • (13) The colt had undergone surgical correction of a ruptured urinary bladder at 4 days of age, and a 5-cm tear through one of the previous scars was identified and repaired during exploratory celiotomy.
  • (14) Rams 21-0 Colts OK, so hands up who saw this one coming?
  • (15) Almost instantly it seems the Patriots are in a three down hole, Brady connects with Amendola for a fresh set of downs, while time is starting to be the enemy for the Colts.
  • (16) 3.33am GMT Colts 22-29 Patriots, 2:20, 3rd quarter Huge three and out for the Patriots, Luck gets sacked by Jamie Collins for a loss of eight yards and then he throws two straight incompletions.
  • (17) Having previously started every one of the Colts' games since being drafted in 1998, he would go on to miss the entire 2011 season.
  • (18) Clinical signs consisted of dyspnea and dysphagia attributable to cranial cervical hematoma in one colt and to intra-abdominal hemorrhage resulting in death of the second colt.
  • (19) Incredible scenes in Indianapolis, where the Colts have now completed a 28-point comeback to beat the Chiefs.
  • (20) It certainly felt that way midway through the Colts' next postseason meeting with the Patriots – the AFC Championship game on 21 January 2007.

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