What's the difference between colt and dolt?

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.

Dolt


Definition:

  • (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
  • (v. i.) To behave foolishly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George is unreliable... untrustworthy... to coin a phrase, a dolt."
  • (2) 28 mins: Look at the pedantic dolts I have to deal with: "So which bit of '4 mins ... 7mins ... 10 mins' is 'minute-by-minute' commentary, exactly?"
  • (3) His predecessor, Richard Daley, was embraced as an authentic Chicagoan with no ambitions beyond the city, even if he came across in public as a monosyllabic dolt.
  • (4) Analyses were conducted on three reference standard materials certified for their methyl mercury content, DOLT-1, DORM-1, and TORT-1, provided by the National Research Council of Canada.
  • (5) The cull might help to destroy the industry these bloody-minded dolts claim to defend.
  • (6) Some dolt in a car coat jogs around for a while, before being shoved to the ground by several police officers waving sticks.
  • (7) Of course, if you have £9bn to spend on a party, surely only a dolt could fail.
  • (8) Another critique of the great war is that the troops were commanded by dolts, a fact it must be said that is contested by many eminent historians.
  • (9) That's the point of the episode, you catastrophic dolt.

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