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Flee vs. Bolt — What's the Difference?

Flee vs. Bolt — What's the Difference?

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Flee

To run away, as from trouble or danger
Fled from the house into the night.

Bolt

A bar made of wood or metal that slides into a socket and is used to fasten doors and gates.

Flee

To pass swiftly away; vanish
"of time fleeing beneath him" (William Faulkner).

Bolt

A metal bar or rod in the mechanism of a lock that is thrown or withdrawn by turning the key.

Flee

To run away from
Flee the scene of an accident.
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Bolt

A fastener consisting of a threaded pin or rod with a head at one end, designed to be inserted through holes in assembled parts and secured by a mated nut that is tightened by applying torque.

Flee

(intransitive) To run away; to escape.
The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.

Bolt

A sliding metal bar that positions the cartridge in breechloading rifles, closes the breech, and ejects the spent cartridge.

Flee

(transitive) To escape from.
Many people fled the country as war loomed.
Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.

Bolt

A similar device in any breech mechanism.

Flee

(intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.

Bolt

A short, heavy arrow with a thick head, used especially with a crossbow.

Flee

To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; - usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
[He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
Flee fornication.
So fled his enemies my warlike father.

Bolt

A flash of lightning; a thunderbolt.

Flee

Run away quickly;
He threw down his gun and fled

Bolt

A sudden or unexpected event
The announcement was a veritable bolt.

Bolt

A sudden movement toward or away.

Bolt

A large roll of cloth of a definite length, especially as it comes from the loom.

Bolt

To secure or lock with or as if with a bolt.

Bolt

To arrange or roll (lengths of cloth, for example) on or in a bolt.

Bolt

To eat (food) hurriedly and with little chewing; gulp.

Bolt

To desert or withdraw support from (a political party).

Bolt

To utter impulsively; blurt.

Bolt

(Archaic) To shoot or discharge (a missile, such as an arrow).

Bolt

To move or spring suddenly.

Bolt

To start suddenly and run away
The horse bolted at the sound of the shot. The frightened child bolted from the room.

Bolt

To break away from an affiliation, as from a political party.

Bolt

(Botany) To flower or produce seeds prematurely or develop a flowering stem from a rosette.

Bolt

To pass (flour, for example) through a sieve.

Bolt

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.

Bolt

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

Bolt

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.

Bolt

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

Bolt

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.

Bolt

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

Bolt

A sudden event, action or emotion.
The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.

Bolt

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

Bolt

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

Bolt

A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
The horse made a bolt.

Bolt

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

Bolt

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

Bolt

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

Bolt

A burst of speed or efficiency.

Bolt

A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).

Bolt

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

Bolt

To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
Bolt the vice to the bench.

Bolt

To secure a door by locking or barring it.
Bolt the door.

Bolt

(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.

Bolt

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

Bolt

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

Bolt

(intransitive) To escape.

Bolt

To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.

Bolt

To swallow food without chewing it.

Bolt

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!

Bolt

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

Bolt

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

Bolt

To sift, especially through a cloth.

Bolt

To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.

Bolt

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

Bolt

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

Bolt

Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.

Bolt

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.

Bolt

Lightning; a thunderbolt.

Bolt

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.

Bolt

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.

Bolt

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Away with him to prison!lay bolts enough upon him.

Bolt

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

Bolt

A bundle, as of oziers.

Bolt

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

Bolt

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America - or anywhere.

Bolt

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

Bolt

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

Bolt

To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

Bolt

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments.

Bolt

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

Bolt

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.

Bolt

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

Bolt

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.

Bolt

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.

Bolt

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.

Bolt

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

Bolt

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.

Bolt

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.

Bolt

To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; - with out.
Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.

Bolt

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.

Bolt

In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
[He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.

Bolt

A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

Bolt

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

Bolt

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

Bolt

The act of moving with great haste;
He made a dash for the door

Bolt

A roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length

Bolt

A screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener

Bolt

A sudden abandonment (as from a political party)

Bolt

Move or jump suddenly;
She bolted from her seat

Bolt

Secure or lock with a bolt;
Bolt the door

Bolt

Swallow hastily

Bolt

Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

Bolt

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

Bolt

Eat hastily without proper chewing;
Don't bolt your food!

Bolt

Make or roll into bolts;
Bolt fabric

Bolt

In a rigid manner;
The body was rigidly erect
Ge sat bolt upright

Bolt

Directly;
He ran bang into the pole
Ran slap into her

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