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English

Etymology

Old English belt

Pronunciation


Noun

Image:Engine belts.jpg|thumb|right|Belts in a machine.

  1. 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.
  2. : As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.
  3. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
  4. : Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
  5. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
  6. : The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
  7. A powerful blow, often made with a fist.
  8. : After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of barfighting.
  9. A quick drink of liquor.
  10. : Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
  11. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product or feature (Corn Belt, Bible Belt).


Synonyms


Derived terms

Translations

  • Albanian: {{t-|sq|brez|m|xs=Albanian}}
  • Arabic: {{t-|ar|حزام|sc=Arab}}
  • Breton: gouriz -ioù
  • Catalan: cinturó
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|pojas|m}}, {{t+|hr|pas|m}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|pásek|m}}, {{t-|cs|opasek|m}}
  • Dutch: gordel , ceintuur
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|zono|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|ceinture|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Gürtel|m}}
  • Hebrew: חגורה|חֲגוֹרָה (khagora)
  • Hungarian:
  • Italian: {{t+|it|cintura|f}}, {{t+|it|cintola|f}}
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|ベルト|tr=beruto|sc=Jpan}}
  • Kurdish: , , ,
  • Latin:
  • Polish: pas , pasek
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|cinto|m}}
  • Romanian: brâu and , curea , cordon and
  • Russian: пояс (pójas) , ремень (r'emén’)
  • Spanish: cinturón , cincho {{italbrac|El Salvador|Guatemala|Honduras}}, cinto , correa {{italbrac|Colombia|Panama|Venezuela}}, faja {{italbrac|Costa Rica|Nicaragua|Southeastern Mexico}}
  • Swedish: gördel, bälte
  • Italian: {{t-|it|cinghia|f}}
  • Kurdish:
  • Russian: ремень (r'emén’)
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|correa|f}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|colpo|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|удар|m|tr=udár|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|golpe|m}},
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|gordel|m}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|zona|f}}, {{t+|it|regione|f}}

Verb

  1. To encircle.
  2. : The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
  3. To fasten a belt.
  4. : Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.
  5. : The rotund man had difficulting belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
  6. To hit with a belt.
  7. : The child was remanded to state custody when the lacerations on her back where her parents had belted her in punishment were revealed.
  8. To sing in a loud manner.
  9. : He belted out the national anthem.
  10. To drink quickly, often in gulps.
  11. : He belted down a shot of whisky.
  12. In the Context of To hit someone or something.
  13. : The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
  14. To move very fast
  15. : He was really belting along.


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Derived terms


Category:English intransitive verbs Category:English transitive verbs

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Dutch

Verb

belt

  1. third person singular present tense of bellen; rings


Category:Dutch verbs

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic {{term|بلد|sc=Arab|tr=bálad}}.

Noun

belt

  1. town


Category:Maltese nouns

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Old English

Etymology

Common Germanic *baltjaz, whence also Old High German balz, Old Norse belti

Noun

belt

  1. belt


Category:Etruscan derivations Category:Old English nouns

ang:belt ar:belt el:belt es:belt fa:belt fr:belt gl:belt io:belt it:belt kk:belt lo:belt hu:belt mt:belt ru:belt simple:belt fi:belt ta:belt te:belt vi:belt tr:belt zh:belt

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Belt \Belt\ (b[e^]lt), n. [AS. belt; akin to Icel. belti, Sw.
b[aum]lte, Dan. b[ae]lte, OHG. balz, L. balteus, Ir. & Gael.
balt border, belt.]
1. That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle;
as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
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The shining belt with gold inlaid. --Dryden.
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2. That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
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He cannot buckle his distempered cause
Within the belt of rule. --Shak.
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3. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or
crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of
trees; a belt of sand.
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4. (Arch.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more
properly termed a belt.
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5. (Astron.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface
of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the
nature of clouds.
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6. (Geog.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and
the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
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7. (Her.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
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8. (Mech.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance,
passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from
one to the other.

Note: [See Illust. of Pulley.]
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9. (Nat. Hist.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any
organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
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Belt lacing, thongs used for lacing together the ends of
machine belting.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Belt \Belt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Belting.]
To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to
surround.
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A coarse black robe belted round the waist. --C. Reade.
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They belt him round with hearts undaunted.
--Wordsworth.
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2. To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
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WordNet belt
n 1: endless loop of flexible material between two rotating
shafts or pulleys
2: a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the
waist)
3: an elongated region where a specific condition is found; "a
belt of high pressure"
4: a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a
bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head" [syn:
knock, bash, bang, smash]
5: a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) [syn: swath]
6: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
[syn: knock, rap, whack, whang]
v 1: sing loudly and forcefully [syn: belt out]
2: deliver a blow to; "He belted his opponent"
3: fasten with a belt; "belt your trousers" [ant: unbelt]
Moby Dictionary
Appleton layer , F layer , Heaviside-Kennelly layer , Mystik tape ,
Scotch tape , Van Allen belt , adhesive tape , airspace , anklet , area ,
arm , armlet , baldric , band , bandage , bandolier , bang , bar , bash ,
baste , bastinado , bat , batten , bay , bayou , beat , beating , bed ,
bedding , begird , belabor , bellyband , belt , belt in , bend , biff ,
bight , bind , bind up , birch , blacksnake , blast , blow , boca , bonk ,
bop , brace , bracelet , breechclout , buffet , bullwhack , bullwhip ,
bundle , cane , cat , cellophane tape , cestus , chain , chemosphere ,
chop , cinch , cincture , cingulum , circle , circuit , clap , clip ,
clobber , cloth tape , clout , club , clump , coldcock , collar ,
collarband , confines , continental shelf , corridor , couche , country ,
course , cove , cowhide , crack , craze , creek , crop , cudgel ,
cummerbund , cut , dash , deal , deal a blow , deck , department , dhoti ,
diaper , dig , dint , district , division , do up , drub , drubbing ,
drumming , earring , ecliptic , encincture , encircle , engird ,
ensphere , environs , equator , estuary , euripus , fascia , fetch ,
fetch a blow , fillet , finger ring , fjord , flagellate , flagellum ,
flail , flog , floor , friction tape , frith , fusillade , fustigate ,
gallery , gird , girdle , girt , girth , give a whipping ,
give the stick , great circle , ground , gulf , gut , harbor , heartland ,
hit , hit a clip , hoop , horsewhip , inlet , ionosphere ,
isothermal region , jab , knock , knock cold , knock down , knock out ,
knout , kurbash , kyle , lace , land , lash , lath , lay on , layer , leash ,
ledge , let have it , level , lick , ligula , ligule , list , loch ,
loincloth , loinguard , loop , lower atmosphere , masking tape ,
measures , milieu , moocha , mouth , napkins , narrow , narrow seas ,
narrows , natural harbor , neckband , necklace , neighborhood ,
nose ring , offshore rights , outer atmosphere , overlayer , overstory ,
part , parts , paste , pelt , perimeter , photosphere , pistol-whip ,
place , plank , plastic tape , plunk , poke , pommel , pound , precincts ,
premises , pummel , punch , purlieus , put across , put over , quarter ,
quirt , quoit , rap , rawhide , razor strap , reach , region , ribband ,
ribbon , ring , road , roads , roadstead , rope , salient , sash , scourge ,
seam , section , shelf , shred , sjambok , slam , slat , slip , slog , slug ,
smack , smash , smite , snap , soak , sock , soil , sound , space , spank ,
spill , splice , spline , stage , step , story , strait , straits , strake ,
strap , stratosphere , stratum , streak , streaking , stretch , stria ,
striation , striature , striga , strike , strike at , striola , strip ,
stripe , striping , stroke , strop , substratosphere , substratum ,
superstratum , swaddle , swat , swath , swathe , swing , swinge , swipe ,
switch , taenia , tape , tape measure , tapeline , tattoo , terrain ,
territory , thickness , thong , thrash , three-mile limit , thump ,
thwack , ticker tape , tie , tie up , tier , topsoil , tract , tropopause ,
troposphere , trounce , truncheon , truss , twelve-mile limit ,
twine around , underlayer , understory , understratum ,
upper atmosphere , vicinage , vicinity , waist belt , waistband ,
waistcloth , wallop , whack , whale , wham , whip , whiplash , whop , wire ,
wrap , wrap up , wreathe , wreathe around , wristband , wristlet , yerk ,
zodiac , zone


Belt, MT (city, FIPS 5275) Location: 47.38597 N, 110.92580 W Population (1990): 571 (282 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59412
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Housing Units (2000): 295
Land area (2000): 0.337242 sq. miles (0.873452 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.337242 sq. miles (0.873452 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05275
Located within: Montana (MT) , FIPS 30
Location: 47.385935 N , 110.926587 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59412
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Belt , MT
Belt
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