Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To release the bolts of (a door, for example); unlock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To release or allow to be opened by withdrawing a bolt: as, to
unbolt a door. - To withdraw a bolt and thus open that which it confined; hence (rarely), to open; unfold; explain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remove a bolt from; to unfasten; to unbar; to open.
- intransitive verb obsolete To explain or unfold a matter; to make a revelation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To undo a
bolt ; tounlock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb undo the bolt of
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Examples
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Most importantly, we need to "unbolt" them from their desk prison cells and focus their culture, literature and language learning not on a text book, but ourselves and our personal experiences.
"The Democratic Classroom" Phil Razem 2009
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Most importantly, we need to "unbolt" them from their desk prison cells and focus their culture, literature and language learning not on a text book, but ourselves and our personal experiences.
Archive 2009-01-01 Phil Razem 2009
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Although police won't say how long the 48-year-old man was incapacitated, rescue crews had to unbolt the seat from the toilet, and take him to the hospital with it still attached, Lt. Matthew Donnelly, a spokesman for the Elkton, Md., tells the newspaper.
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If the owners move, they can unbolt it and take it with them.
Tornadoes prompt run of phone calls to storm shelter companies 2011
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The next move, however, started to involved these robotic submarines, because they had to go in and unbolt six enormous, like, 50-pound bolts to clear away this piece of pipe that had been chomped off by this hydraulic shears.
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The next move, however, started to involved these robotic submarines, because they had to go in and unbolt six enormous, like, 50-pound bolts to clear away this piece of pipe that had been chomped off by this hydraulic shears.
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If you really want to be careful, you can unbolt your rear derailleur, but I don't.
Flights of Fancy: The Art of Unsimplification BikeSnobNYC 2010
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It took the three of them half an hour to unbolt the camera from the platform, ease it to the ground, and carry it up the stairs to Shirer's apartment.
DBTL 51B: City of Shadows - Intervention Johnny Pez 2009
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It took the three of them half an hour to unbolt the camera from the platform, ease it to the ground, and carry it up the stairs to Shirer's apartment.
Archive 2009-12-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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And if you unbolt the ladder that allows the pirates to climb on to your ship before you set sail, you get extra credit for that.
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