(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(n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.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).
Wedge
Definition:
(n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
(n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
(n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
(n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
(n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
(v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
(v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
(v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
(v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
(v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
(v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(2) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(3) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(4) It was then determined whether reducing the PA wedge pressure during exercise with prazosin (9 patients) or dobutamine (6 patients) reduced ventilatory levels toward normal.
(5) He elaborates: "Republicans use powerful economic wedge issues to great impact.
(6) The method described uses film DOT-I and DOT-II by Dupont, whereby the exposure of the step wedge takes place on a linear accelerator with a photo energy of 10 MeV.
(7) Indirect methods to evaluate left ventricular function included the use of the Swan-Ganz catheter for pulmonary capillary wedge pressure measurement, systolic time intervals, and cardiac output.
(8) We performed carinal reconstruction in eight patients, sleeve pneumonectomy in eight patients and wedge pneumonectomy in one.
(9) The mitral valve area was less than 1 cm2 in 61%, the wedge pressure over 25 mmHg in 59% and the pulmonary artery systolic pressure over 50 mmHg in 59%.
(10) Lungs were evaluated for the presence of wedge-shaped pleural-based densities and for the presence of an associated vascular sign.
(11) The isodose curves exhibited the desired wedge angles over the range of field sizes from 5 x 5 to 15 x 40 cm.
(12) This is contradicted, however, by maintained blood pressure and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, increased cardiac output, and reduced peripheral resistance.
(13) Early complications included disc entrapment against the ventricular wall in three cases, wedging of chorda between disc and valve rim in two and posterior perforation of the left ventricle in three patients.
(14) Meanwhile, among hepatic and systemic hemodynamics, wedged hepatic venous pressure, hepatic venous pressure gradient, free hepatic venous pressure, cardiac index, systolic blood pressure, systemic vascular resistance, and stroke volume were found to have changed significantly after tilting.
(15) Cardiac disorders being usually concomitant with this syndrome (interventricular leak, pulmonary arterial wedge stenosis etc.)
(16) As an initial feasibility study of computer-controlled radiation therapy, its application to produce wedge-shaped dose distributions by moving the collimator jaws has been evaluated.
(17) Five shoulders had a posterior opening-wedge osteotomy of the scapular neck to correct the excessive retroversion of the glenoid cavity.
(18) The results showed a satisfactory inter- and intraobserver agreement for wedge (Kappa = 0.72 and 0.90) and compression fractures (Kappa = 0.60 and 0.92).
(19) Among 28 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with increasing dyspnea, the resting mean pulmonary arterial wedge pressure was elevated (greater than 12mm Hg) in 4 and became abnormal with exercise in 3 other subjects.
(20) After induction of spinal anaesthesia the mean arterial pressure, right atrial pressure, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and systemic vascular resistance were significantly reduced.