(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(n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.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).
Wrench
Definition:
(v. t.) Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
(v. t.) A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
(v. t.) A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
(v. t.) Means; contrivance.
(v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.
(v. t.) The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.
(n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
(n.) To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.
(2) She lives in Holland Park and welcomes visitors with a gusty wrench of the door and a jubilant "hello".
(3) Goldsmith, following in the footsteps of his father , who started the rabid anti-EU referendum campaign, is for a hard Brexit, wrenching us away as brutally and damagingly as possible.
(4) In one email, an aide suggests she should “toss a wrench at someone”.
(5) The fact that they cannot afford to do so can be gut-wrenching.
(6) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
(7) But if you read carefully, Roberts did throw a wrench into the NSA's main defense for what it does: self-policing.
(8) "The pictures that we are seeing in Gaza and in Israel are heart-wrenching."
(9) Everybody is happy.” Fortunately for Villa, the fact Hull lost 2-0 at Tottenham meant their safety was assured a few hours later – welcome news to the Villa manager Tim Sherwood after a gut-wrenching first half.
(10) We are continuing to see heart wrenching reports of sexual abuse and assault, self-harm and hopelessness of refugees detained on Nauru and Manus Island with over 2,000 people left to languish in detention,” Szoke said.
(11) Mr Vine said: "Some time ago I decided I would have to leave Newsnight if I went to Radio 2 and that's a wrench, but no journalist could turn down such a magnificent offer from what is the UK's most successful radio station.
(12) I recall the sense of dismay I felt that morning when watching the first plane hit and how that morphed, when the second plane came less than twenty minutes later, into a gut-wrenching realization that this was no accident.
(13) No parent, hearing the voices of those still seeking news of their children, could fail to imagine the frantic play of hope and despair, the terrible wrenching of attachment.
(14) I decided it would do to convey a mixture of can-you-believe-it crossness and wrenching disappointment, selected it, added zilch and pressed send.
(15) Wrenching forces exerted on the cervical spine are attenuated, and the face is protected from contact with hard or lacerating surfaces.
(16) This throws a monkey wrench into the licensing process.
(17) 'A tremendous wrench': Sir Ivan Rogers's resignation email in full Read more He wrote: “I hope you will continue to challenge ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking and that you will never be afraid to speak the truth to those in power.
(18) The two cases herein described manifest unusual and distinctive injuries resulting from multiple impacts by adjustable crescent wrenches.
(19) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
(20) Their 18-year relationship made a gut-wrenching but fascinating public story, which began with romantic passion, high hopes and an elopement to Spain.