different between bolt vs pin

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?lt/, /b??lt/, /b??lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bo?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt, -?lt

Etymology 1

From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *b?eld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.

Noun

bolt (plural bolts)

1. 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.
2. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
3. 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.
4. (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
5. 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.
6. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
7. A sudden event, action or emotion.
   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.

8. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
   1. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
   • 24 March 1774 , Stamford Mercury - "Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods" https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000254/17740324/001/0001
9. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.

10. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
    • '1887, Chalres Reader and Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir

      This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America — or anywhere.

11. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
12. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
    • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,^[1]

      He shall to prison, and there die in boults.

    • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1,^[2]

      Away with him to prison! Lay bolts enough upon him:

13. A burst of speed or efficiency.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• arrow
• dart
• nut
• screw

Verb

bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)

1. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.

2. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
3. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia

     This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, […] / And oft out of a bush doth bolt.

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

5. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
6. (intransitive) To escape.
7. (intransitive, botany) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
8. To swallow food without chewing it.
9. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.

10. (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
11. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

Translations

Adverb

bolt (not comparable)

1. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

   The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.

   • [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.

References

Etymology 2

From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??s- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.

Verb

bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)

1. To sift, especially through a cloth.
2. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.

   Graham flour is unbolted flour.

3. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
4. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jacob to this entry?)

Derived terms

• bolt to the bran
• unbolted

Noun

bolt (plural bolts)

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• blot, blót

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??l?d?]
• Homophone: bold

Etymology 1

From Low German bolt, from Middle Low German bolte, from Old Saxon bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt.

Noun

bolt c (singular definite bolten, plural indefinite bolte)

1. a bolt (threaded)

Derived terms

• bolte (verb)

Related terms

• skrue (screw or bolt)

Etymology 2

Verb

bolt (imperative bolt, present tense bolter, passive boltes, simple past and past participle bolta or boltet, present participle boltende)

1. imperative of bolte

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian volta (“vault”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bolt]
• Rhymes: -olt

Noun

bolt (plural boltok)

1. shop, store (especially applied to relatively small shops in the countryside)

   Synonyms: üzlet, áruház, kereskedés, árus

2. vault

   Synonyms: boltozat, boltív, bolthajtás

Declension

Hyponyms

See also the compound words containing -bolt with the sense of a shop [store] below.

Derived terms

• bolti
• boltos
• boltozat

(Note: Most compounds with üzlet as an affix in the sense of ’shop, store’ can be expressed with bolt.)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Low German bolt

Noun

bolt m (definite singular bolten, indefinite plural bolter, definite plural boltene)

1. a bolt (threaded)

Derived terms

• bolte (verb)

Related terms

• skrue (screw or bolt)

Etymology 2

Verb

bolt

1. imperative of bolte

References

• “bolt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian boltr, from Middle Low German bolte.

Noun

bolt m (definite singular bolten, indefinite plural boltar, definite plural boltane)

1. a bolt (threaded)

Derived terms

• bolte (verb)

Related terms

• skrue (screw or bolt)

References

• “bolt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bolt.

Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Icelandic bolti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bolt/, [bo?t]

Noun

bolt m

1. bolt

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: bolt
  • English: bolt

References

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?n, IPA^(key): /p?n/, [p??n]
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: pen (pin-pen merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinn?, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”).

Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.

No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather.

Noun

pin (plural pins)

1. A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
2. A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
3. A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.

4. (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
5. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
7. (informal, in the plural) A leg.

8. (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.

9. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
10. (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.

    Synonyms: lapel pin, badge

11. (chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.
12. (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
13. (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
14. (dated) A mood, a state of being.
    • 1653, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism

      he had made the sign of the Cross on his head; for he was then on a merry pin and full of jearing

15. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
16. (medicine, obsolete) Caligo.
17. A thing of small value; a trifle.

    • He […] did not care a pin for her.

18. A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
19. (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
20. The tenon of a dovetail joint.
21. (Britain, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
22. (informal) A pinball machine.
    • 1949, Billboard (volume 61, page 82)

      Attracted by game operation, many invested heavily in pins and rolldowns prior to last spring.

Synonyms

• (small nail): nail, tack
• (cylinder of wood or metal): peg
• (games): skittle
• (jewellery fastened with a pin): brooch

Hyponyms

• (jewellery fastened with a pin): breastpin
• (chess): absolute pin, relative pin, partial pin

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• needle

Verb

pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)

1. (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
2. (chess, usually passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
3. (wrestling) To pin down (someone).

   He pinned his opponent on the mat.

4. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
5. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.

6. (computing, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.

7. To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.

   Synonym: peg

   • 1979, Al Greenwood and Lou Gramm, "Rev on the Red Line" from Head Games:

     Now I need to pin those needles.

Derived terms

• pin down
• pin in
• pin on
• pin the meter
• pin the tail on the donkey
• pin up
• underpin

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)

1. Alternative form of peen

Anagrams

• NIP, NPI, Nip, nip

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pin/

Noun

pin m (plural pins)

1. (electronics) lead
2. pin (ornament)

Chuukese

Adjective

pin

1. holy

Synonyms

• fen

Cimbrian

Verb

pin

1. first-person singular present indicative of zèinan: am

Cornish

Noun

pin f (singulative pinen)

1. pines

Synonyms

• sab

Danish

Verb

pin

1. imperative of pine

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *pinnaz *pinnaz, *pinn?, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- 'protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge'. Cognate with English pin, Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n
• IPA^(key): /p?n/

Noun

pin f (plural pinnen, diminutive pinnetje n)

1. peg, pin

Etymology 2

Abbreviation

Noun

pin

1. Abbreviation of persoonlijk identificatienummer.

Etymology 3

Verb

pin

1. first-person singular present indicative of pinnen
2. imperative of pinnen

Anagrams

• nip

French

Etymology

From Old French pin, from Latin p?nus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/
• Homophones: pain, peins, peint

Noun

pin m (plural pins)

1. pine, pine tree

Derived terms

• noix de pin
• pomme de pin

Further reading

• “pin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin p?nus.

Noun

pin m (plural pins)

1. pine tree

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pin, from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz *pinnaz, *pinn?, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- 'protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge'.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?n]
• Hyphenation: pin

Noun

pin

1. pin
   1. (colloquial) a needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

      Synonym: peniti

   2. a slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
2. (colloquial) peg.

   Synonym: pasak

Further reading

• “pin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

pin

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latvian

Verb

pin

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of p?t
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of p?t
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of p?t
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of p?t
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of p?t
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of p?t

Mandarin

Romanization

pin

1. Nonstandard spelling of p?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pín.
3. Nonstandard spelling of p?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pìn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mapudungun

Verb

pin (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. To say
2. To tell (a story).
3. first-person singular realis form of pin

Synonyms

• (tell a story): nvxamyen

Papantla Totonac

Noun

pin inan

1. chili. chili pepper.

References

• Crescencio García Ramos, Diccionario Básico Totonaco-Español Español-Totonaco (Xalapa, Academia Veracruzana de las Lenguas Indígenas, 2007)

Ojibwe

Noun

pin anim (plural piniig, diminutive piniins, locative piniing, pejorative pinish)

1. potato

Rawang

Etymology

Compare Chinese ? (b?ng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?in?/

Noun

pin

1. army.
2. soldier.

Synonyms

• (army): dap, pindap, sìl
• (soldier): pinla, sìlsè

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin p?nus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

Noun

pin m (plural pini)

1. pine

Declension

See also

• brad

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) pign
• (Sursilvan) pégn
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) pegn

Etymology

From Latin p?nus.

Noun

pin m

1. (Puter, Vallader) spruce, fir

Synonyms

• (spruce): (Vallader) petsch

Seta

Noun

pin

1. woman

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English pin

Noun

pin m (plural pines)

1. pin, lapel pin, badge

   Synonym: insignia

2. (electricity) pin (any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English PIN, acronym of personal identification number

Alternative forms

• PIN

Noun

pin m (plural pines)

1. PIN, PIN number

Swedish

Etymology 1

Clipping of pinsam, with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi?n/

Adjective

pin (comparative mer pin, superlative mest pin)

1. (colloquial) embarrasing

Declension

Invariable, not used in the definite form.

Etymology 2

From pina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi?n/

Noun

pin

1. pain, torment

Derived terms

• om man vill vara fin, får man lida pin; vill man vara fin, får man lida pin

Adverb

pin (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) very, really, super-

   Synonyms: jätte-, väldigt

Derived terms

• på pin kiv

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n/

Noun

pin n

1. Alternative form of pins

Usage notes

The form with -s is recommended since it's easier to decline in Swedish.

References

• pin in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (pin), borrowed from a dialectal form of Armenian ????? (buyn, “nest”).

Noun

pin (definite accusative pini, plural pinler)

1. (dialectal) coop for poultry

Declension

Synonyms

• kümes

References

• A?a?ean, Hra??eay (1971–1979) , “????”, in Hayer?n armatakan ba?aran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• “pin”, in Türkiye'de halk a?z?ndan derleme sözlü?ü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from French pile.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [pin??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [pin??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [p?n??]

Noun

(classifier c?c) pin

1. a battery
2. the amount of electricity that a battery holds

Derived terms

• ?èn pin (“torch, flashlight”)

Welsh

Etymology 1

From Latin p?nus (compare Middle Irish pín).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?n/

Noun

pin m or m pl (uncountable)

1. pine (tree)
2. pine (wood)

Usage notes

Modern Welsh orthography prefers the form pin to the superseded form pîn.

Synonyms

• pinwydd f pl

Derived terms

• pin-afal

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?n/

Noun

pin m (plural pinnau)

1. Superseded spelling of pìn.

Usage notes

Modern Welsh orthography uses pìn instead of the superseded form pin.

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “pin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yapese

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?n/

Noun

pin

1. woman