Bolt vs. Boot

Boltnoun

A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.

Bootnoun

A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.

Boltnoun

A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.

Bootnoun

(sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.

Boltnoun

A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.

Bootnoun

A blow with the foot; a kick.

Boltnoun

A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.

Bootnoun

(construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.

Boltnoun

A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.

Bootnoun

A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.

Boltnoun

A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.

Bootnoun

(US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.

Boltnoun

A sudden event, action or emotion.

‘The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.’;

Bootnoun

A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup. A deicing boot.

Boltnoun

A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.

Bootnoun

(obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.

Boltnoun

(nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.

Bootnoun

(archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

Boltnoun

A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.

‘The horse made a bolt.’;

Bootnoun

A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.

Boltnoun

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

Bootnoun

The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.

Boltnoun

A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.

Bootnoun

(informal) The act or process of removing or firing someone (give someone the boot).

Boltnoun

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

Bootnoun

unattractive person, ugly woman (usu as "old boot")

Boltnoun

A burst of speed or efficiency.

Bootnoun

(firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.

Boltnoun

A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

Bootnoun

(baseball) A bobbled ball.

Boltverb

To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.

‘Bolt the vice to the bench.’;

Bootnoun

(botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.

Boltverb

To secure a door by locking or barring it.

‘Bolt the door.’;

Bootnoun

remedy, amends

Boltverb

(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.

‘Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.’; ‘The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.’;

Bootnoun

(uncountable) profit, plunder

Boltverb

(transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).

‘to bolt a rabbit’;

Bootnoun

(obsolete) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense

Boltverb

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

Bootnoun

(obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.

Boltverb

(intransitive) To escape.

Bootnoun

(obsolete) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.

Boltverb

Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.

‘Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.’;

Bootnoun

(obsolete) A medicinal cure or remedy.

Boltverb

To swallow food without chewing it.

Bootnoun

(computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.

‘It took three boots, but I finally got the application installed.’;

Boltverb

To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.

‘Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!’;

Bootnoun

A bootleg recording.

Boltverb

To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

Bootverb

To kick.

‘I booted the ball toward my teammate.’;

Boltverb

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

Bootverb

To put boots on, especially for riding.

Boltverb

To sift, especially through a cloth.

Bootverb

To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).

Boltverb

To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.

‘Graham flour is unbolted flour.’;

Bootverb

(informal) To forcibly eject.

‘We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible’;

Boltverb

To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

Bootverb

To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.

Boltverb

(legal) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

Bootverb

(slang) To vomit.

‘Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.’;

Boltadverb

Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

‘The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.’;

Bootverb

To profit, avail, benefit.

Boltnoun

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.

‘Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts.’; ‘A fool's bolt is soon shot.’;

Bootverb

To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.

Boltnoun

Lightning; a thunderbolt.

Bootverb

(computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

‘When arriving at the office, first thing I do is booting my machine.’;

Boltnoun

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.

Bootnoun

Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

‘He gaf the sike man his boote.’; ‘Thou art boot for many a bruiseAnd healest many a wound.’; ‘Next her Son, our soul's best boot.’;

Boltnoun

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.

Bootnoun

That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.

‘I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.’;

Boltnoun

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

‘Away with him to prison!lay bolts enough upon him.’;

Bootnoun

Profit; gain; advantage; use.

‘Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot.’; ‘Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot.’; ‘A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot.’;

Boltnoun

A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.

Bootnoun

A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

Boltnoun

A bundle, as of oziers.

Bootnoun

An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

‘So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg.’;

Boltnoun

A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.

Bootnoun

A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.

Boltnoun

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

‘This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America - or anywhere.’;

Bootnoun

A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

Boltnoun

A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.

Bootnoun

An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

Boltnoun

A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

Bootnoun

The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.

Boltverb

To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

Bootnoun

Booty; spoil.

Boltverb

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

‘I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments.’;

Bootverb

To profit; to advantage; to avail; - generally followed by it; as, what boots it?

‘What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?’; ‘What subduedTo change like this a mind so far imbuedWith scorn of man, it little boots to know.’; ‘What boots to us your victories?’;

Boltverb

To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.

Bootverb

To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.

‘And I will boot thee with what gift besideThy modesty can beg.’;

Boltverb

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.

Bootverb

To put boots on, esp. for riding.

‘Coated and booted for it.’;

Boltverb

To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

Bootverb

To punish by kicking with a booted foot.

Boltverb

To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.

‘Let tenfold iron bolt my door.’; ‘Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.’;

Bootverb

To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.

Boltverb

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.

‘This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth bolt.’;

Bootnoun

footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg

Boltverb

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

‘His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.’;

Bootnoun

British term for the luggage compartment in a car

Boltverb

To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.

Bootnoun

the swift release of a store of affective force;

‘they got a great bang out of it’; ‘what a boot!’; ‘he got a quick rush from injecting heroin’; ‘he does it for kicks’;

Boltverb

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.

Bootnoun

protective casing for something that resembles a leg

Boltverb

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.

‘He now had bolted all the flour.’; ‘Ill schooled in bolted language.’;

Bootnoun

an instrument of torture that is used to crush the foot and leg

Boltverb

To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; - with out.

‘Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.’;

Bootnoun

the act of delivering a blow with the foot;

‘he gave the ball a powerful kick’; ‘the team's kicking was excellent’;

Boltverb

To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

‘This bolts the matter fairly to the bran.’; ‘The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran.’;

Bootverb

kick; give a boot to

Boltadverb

In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

‘[He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.’;

Bootverb

cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes;

‘boot your computer’;

Boltnoun

a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

Bootnoun

a sturdy item of footwear covering the foot and ankle, and sometimes also the lower leg

‘a pair of walking boots’;

Boltnoun

a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech

Bootnoun

a covering to protect the lower part of a horse's leg.

Boltnoun

the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key

Bootnoun

an instrument of torture encasing and crushing the foot.

Boltnoun

the act of moving with great haste;

‘he made a dash for the door’;

Bootnoun

short for Denver boot

Boltnoun

a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length

Bootnoun

a hard kick

‘he got a boot in the stomach’;

Boltnoun

a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener

Bootnoun

an enclosed space at the back of a car for carrying luggage or other goods.

Boltnoun

a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)

Bootnoun

the process of starting a computer and putting it into a state of readiness for operation

‘a boot disk’;

Boltverb

move or jump suddenly;

‘She bolted from her seat’;

Bootnoun

as well; in addition

‘he is a likeable guy, and funny to boot’; ‘images that are precise, revealing, and often beautiful to boot’;

Boltverb

secure or lock with a bolt;

‘bolt the door’;

Bootverb

kick (something) hard in a specified direction

‘he ended up booting the ball into the stand’;

Boltverb

swallow hastily

Bootverb

force someone to leave a vehicle unceremoniously

‘a guard booted two children off a train’;

Boltverb

run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

Bootverb

force someone to leave a place or job unceremoniously

‘she had been booted out of school’;

Boltverb

leave suddenly and as if in a hurry;

‘The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas’; ‘When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out’;

Bootverb

start (a computer) and put it into a state of readiness for operation

‘the menu will be ready as soon as you boot up your computer’; ‘the system won't boot from the original drive’;

Boltverb

eat hastily without proper chewing;

‘Don't bolt your food!’;

Bootverb

place a wheel clamp on (an illegally parked car)

‘once a car is booted, the owner must pay all fines plus a fee to have the boot removed’;

Boltverb

make or roll into bolts;

‘bolt fabric’;

Boot

A boot, plural boots, is a type of specific footwear. Most boots mainly cover the foot and the ankle, while some also cover some part of the lower calf.

Boltadverb

in a rigid manner;

‘the body was rigidly erect’; ‘ge sat bolt upright’;

Boltadverb

directly;

‘he ran bang into the pole’; ‘ran slap into her’;