belt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk belte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”), Faroese and Icelandic belti (“belt”).
Inflected forms:
form: belts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: belts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: belting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: belted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: belted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.
Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather.
gloss: A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
pos: noun
examples: Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
gloss: A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
pos: noun
examples: The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
gloss: Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
pos: noun
examples: a belt of trees; a belt of sand
gloss: A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
pos: noun
examples: the heavyweight belt
gloss: A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
pos: noun
gloss: One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
pos: noun
gloss: A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
pos: noun
examples: The battleship was protected by a twelve-inch belt just above the waterline.
gloss: A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
pos: noun
examples: After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of bar fights.
gloss: A quick drink of liquor.
pos: noun
examples: Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
gloss: A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
usually
gloss: The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
pos: noun
examples: That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt.
gloss: A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
pos: noun
gloss: A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
pos: noun
examples: Both auditionees had great ranges but Diamond had the strong belt we really need for the finale.
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.
In Clara's furious rant in Act II, Allsun broke out of her soprano into a belt, which made perfect sense in the moment.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To fasten a belt on; to encircle with a belt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.
The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
gloss: To encircle; to surround.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
gloss: To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hit with a belt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment.
gloss: To hit someone or something, especially forcefully; to bash.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
Bobby belting the ball
gloss: To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He belted that pitch over the grandstand.
gloss: To scream or sing in a loud, strong manner.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: He belted out the national anthem.
Céline Dion belted her iconic song "My Heart Will Go On" in a show-stopping performance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21. The legendary singer gave the throwback performance in honor of the 20th anniversary of the hit song from the Titanic soundtrack.
gloss: To drink quickly, often in gulps.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He belted down a shot of whisky.
gloss: To move, run, drive, etc., very fast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He was really belting along.
I had to be pretty quick once I'd pulled the string and belt down the garden before the tiny tits escaped.
Synonyms: restraint
safety belt
seat belt
Derived words: Adonis belt
ammo belt
ammunition belt
Apollo's belt
asteroid belt
bagel belt
banana belt
below the belt
belt and braces
belt and suspenders
belt bag
belt buckle
belt conveyor
belt course
belt drive
belt-drive
belt-driven
belted
Belter
belter
belt-fed
beltfish
beltful
belt highway
beltless
beltlike
beltline
belt loop
beltmaker
beltmaking
belt of the crozier
belt of Venus
beltpack
belt printer
belt purse
belt-sand
belt sander
belt squat
belt-tighten
belt-tightening
belt tightening
belt track
beltway
beltwise
beltwork
belty
Bible belt
Bible Belt
biobelt
black belt
Black Belt
borscht belt
Borscht Belt
Bungalow Belt
cambelt
cartridge belt
chastity belt
Clarke belt
coin belt
commuter belt
conveyer belt
conveyor belt
Copperbelt
Cotton Belt
Coup Belt
cow belt
crossbelt
cross belt sorter
cross-belt sorter
dance belt
dog-belt
drivebelt
Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
endless belt
exoasteroid belt
explosive belt
fan belt
fanbelt
Fertile Belt
fly belt
four-belt
garrison belt
garter belt
goiter belt
Great Belt
green belt
grey belt
gunbelt
hair belt
hydraulic belt
icebelt
innerbelt
kidney belt
Kuiper belt
Kuiper belt object
lap belt
life belt
Little Belt
main asteroid belt
main belt
main-belt
Middle Belt
mist belt
mist-belt
money belt
mortgage belt
mountain belt
mouse belt
muesli belt malnutrition
nanobelt
notch in one's belt
notch on one's belt
ore belt
Orinoco Belt
Orion's Belt
Orion's belt
orogenic belt
panty-belt
peace belt
photon belt
pick-to-belt
pricking at the belt
quarter belt
Quran Belt
radiation belt
rat belt
rocket belt
Rust Belt
rustbelt
rust-belt
rust belt
safety belt
Sam Browne belt
sandbelt
sash belt
sea belt
seat-belt
seat belt
seatbelt
serpentine belt
shelter belt
shelterbelt
shoulder belt
shoulderbelt
snowbelt
Stroke Belt
suicide belt
Sun Belt
sunbelt
Sunni belt
sushi belt
suspender belt
swordbelt
tie belt
tighten one's belt
time belt
timing belt
toolbelt
town belt
unbelt
under one's belt
university belt
University Belt
utility belt
Van Allen belt
Van Allen radiation belt
vee-belt
waistbelt
wampum belt
wheatbelt
Wheatbelt
white belt
belted l
belt down
belt out
belt up
beltloop
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