belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: belts
Etymology: From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).
Senses: examples: text: As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.
text: Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather.
ref: 1987 August 15, Robert Benitez, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 14:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
examples: text: Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
glosses: A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
examples: text: The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
glosses: A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
examples: text: a belt of trees; a belt of sand
glosses: Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
examples: text: the heavyweight belt
glosses: A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
examples: text: The battleship was protected by a twelve-inch belt just above the waterline.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
examples: text: After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of bar fights.
glosses: A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
examples: text: Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
glosses: A quick drink of liquor.
glosses: A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
examples: text: That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
examples: text: Both auditionees had great ranges but Diamond had the strong belt we really need for the finale.
text: As previously mentioned, there was unexpected behavior in laryngeal lowering for belt in several singers and unchanged laryngeal height for two, as well as stable opening or widening of the pharyngeal walls, which must be investigated further.
ref: 1999, Jeannette Lovetri, Susan Lesh, Peak Woo, “Preliminary Study on the Ability of Trained Singers to Control the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Laryngeal Musculature”, in Journal of Voice, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, page 226:
text: In Clara's furious rant in Act II, Allsun broke out of her soprano into a belt, which made perfect sense in the moment.
ref: 2018, Norman Spivey, Mary Saunder Barton, Cross-Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act, Plural Publishing, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
examples: text: This belt of deformed platform sediments parallels the suture running east-to-west across the north of the region, which was left when the ocean basin that originally separated the two ancient continents on either side of it was consumed by subduction.
text: Most foreland fold and thrust belts are linear or arcuate belts of folds and thrust faults that form a marginal part of an orogenic belt between an undeformed craton and a more intensely deformed inner zone.
ref: 1980, B. C. Burchfiel, “Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts—Review”, in AAPG Bulletin, volume 64, number 5, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, →DOI, page 684:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mostly-continuous, often curvilinear structure expressed on the surface or in the subsurface of a terrestrial planet or other solid planemo, such as a mountain belt, a fold and thrust belt, or an ore belt.
Synonyms: sense: band worn around waist
word: girdle
sense: band worn around waist
word: waistband
sense: band worn around waist
word: sash
sense: band worn around waist
word: strap
word: restraint
word: safety belt
word: seat belt
sense: powerful blow
word: blow
sense: powerful blow
word: punch
sense: powerful blow
word: sock
sense: powerful blow
word: wallop
sense: quick drink of liquor
word: dram
sense: quick drink of liquor
word: nip
Derived terms: word: Adonis belt
word: ammo belt
word: ammunition belt
word: Apollo's belt
word: asteroid belt
word: bagel belt
word: banana belt
word: below the belt
word: belt and braces
word: belt and suspenders
word: belt bag
word: belt buckle
word: belt conveyor
word: belt course
word: belt drive
word: belt-drive
word: belt-driven
word: belted
word: belter
word: Belter
word: belt-fed
word: beltfish
word: beltful
word: belt highway
word: beltless
word: beltlike
word: beltline
word: belt loop
word: beltmaker
word: beltmaking
word: belt of the crozier
word: belt of Venus
word: beltpack
word: belt purse
word: belt-sand
word: belt sander
word: belt squat
word: belt-tighten
word: belt tightening
word: belt-tightening
word: belt track
word: beltway
word: beltwise
word: beltwork
word: belty
word: Bible Belt
word: Bible belt
word: biobelt
word: black belt
word: Black Belt
word: Borscht Belt
word: Bungalow Belt
word: cambelt
word: cartridge belt
word: chastity belt
word: Clarke belt
word: coin belt
word: commuter belt
word: conveyer belt
word: conveyor belt
word: Copperbelt
word: Cotton Belt
word: Coup Belt
word: cow belt
word: crossbelt
word: cross belt sorter
word: cross-belt sorter
word: dance belt
word: dog-belt
word: drivebelt
word: Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
word: endless belt
word: exoasteroid belt
word: explosive belt
word: fan belt
word: fanbelt
word: fly belt
word: four-belt
word: garrison belt
word: garter belt
word: goiter belt
word: Great Belt
word: green belt
word: grey belt
word: gunbelt
word: hydraulic belt
word: icebelt
word: innerbelt
word: kidney belt
word: Kuiper belt
word: Kuiper belt object
word: lap belt
word: life belt
word: Little Belt
word: main asteroid belt
word: main belt
word: main-belt
word: Middle Belt
word: mist-belt
word: mist belt
word: money belt
word: mortgage belt
word: mountain belt
word: muesli belt malnutrition
word: nanobelt
word: notch in one's belt
word: notch on one's belt
word: ore belt
word: Orinoco Belt
word: Orion's Belt
word: Orion's belt
word: orogenic belt
word: panty-belt
word: peace belt
word: photon belt
word: pick-to-belt
word: pricking at the belt
word: quarter belt
word: Quran Belt
word: radiation belt
word: rocket belt
word: rust belt
word: Rust Belt
word: rust-belt
word: rustbelt
word: safety belt
word: Sam Browne belt
word: sandbelt
word: sash belt
word: sea belt
word: seat-belt
word: seat belt
word: seatbelt
word: serpentine belt
word: shelter belt
word: shelterbelt
word: shoulderbelt
word: shoulder belt
word: snowbelt
word: Stroke Belt
word: suicide belt
word: Sun Belt
word: sunbelt
word: Sunni belt
word: sushi belt
word: suspender belt
word: swordbelt
word: tie belt
word: tighten one's belt
word: time belt
word: timing belt
word: toolbelt
word: town belt
word: unbelt
word: under one's belt
word: utility belt
word: Van Allen belt
word: Van Allen radiation belt
word: waistbelt
word: wampum belt
word: wheatbelt
word: Wheatbelt
word: white belt