bolt vs red-eye

bolt

noun
  • A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. 

  • 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. 

  • The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards. 

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

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

  • 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. 

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

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

  • A burst of speed or efficiency. 

  • 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. 

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

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

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

  • A sudden event, action or emotion. 

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

  • A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside. 

adv
  • Suddenly; straight; unbendingly. 

verb
  • To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed. 

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

  • To escape. 

  • To sift, especially through a cloth. 

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

  • To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly. 

  • To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour. 

  • To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt. 

  • To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. 

  • To secure a door by locking or barring it. 

  • To swallow food without chewing it. 

  • To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. 

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

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

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

red-eye

noun
  • An overnight airplane flight. 

  • Either of two subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper native to the United States: either the broad-banded copperhead or Texas copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus), or the highland moccasin or northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen). 

  • The redeye tetra (Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae), a freshwater fish, commonly kept in aquariums, native to South America. 

  • The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus), a small American songbird. 

  • Redness in the eye(s) of someone in a colour photograph, as an unwanted consequence of light from a flash reflecting off blood vessels in the retina. 

  • Any of various sunfishes of the family Centrarchidae, especially the redeye bass (Micropterus coosae). 

  • A drink made by adding a shot of espresso to a cup of coffee. 

  • A strong but poor-quality whiskey. 

  • The red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas), which is native to neotropical rainforests. 

  • Redness of the conjunctiva; especially when caused by conjunctivitis (pink-eye). 

  • The common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), a freshwater fish. 

  • A species of cicada, Psaltoda moerens, native to eastern Australia. 

  • Any of various round herrings of the genus Etrumeus. 

  • Any of various grass-skippers or hesperiid butterflies of the genus Matapa. 

  • A drink consisting of beer with tomato juice. 

verb
  • Often followed by it: to travel on a red-eye (“an overnight airplane flight”). 

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