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What (who) is BELT - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Belts; Belt (disambiguation)
Belt
·noun A token or badge of knightly rank.
II. Belt ·noun That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
III. Belt ·vt To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.
V. Belt ·noun A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
VI. Belt ·noun That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
VII. Belt ·noun A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
IX. Belt ·noun One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
X. Belt ·noun A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
XI. Belt ·noun 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.
belt
(belts, belting, belted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A belt is a strip of leather or cloth that you fasten round your waist.
He wore a belt with a large brass buckle.
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2.
A belt in a machine is a circular strip of rubber that is used to drive moving parts or to move objects along.
The turning disc is connected by a drive belt to an electric motor.
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3.
A belt of land or sea is a long, narrow area of it that has some special feature.
Miners in Zambia's northern copper belt have gone on strike...
= strip
N-COUNT: with supp
4.
If someone belts you, they hit you very hard. (INFORMAL)
'Is it right she belted old George in the gut?' she asked.
= thump
VERB: V n
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Belt is also a noun.
Father would give you a belt over the head with the scrubbing brush.
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5.
If you belt somewhere, you move or travel there very fast. (INFORMAL)
We belted down Iveagh Parade to where the motor was.
= dash
VERB: V prep/adv
6.
see also belted
7.
Something that is below the belt is cruel and unfair.
Do you think it's a bit below the belt what they're doing?
...this kind of below-the-belt discrimination.
PHRASE
8.
If you have to tighten your belt, you have to spend less money and manage without things because you have less money than you used to have.
Clearly, if you are spending more than your income, you'll need to tighten your belt.
PHRASE: V inflects
9.
If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
Clare is now a full-time author with six books, including four novels, under her belt.
PHRASE: have/with n PHR
belt
I
n.
band
1) to buckle, fasten one's belt
2) (also fig.) to tighten one's belt
3) to loosen; undo one's belt
4) a life; money; safety, seat, shoulder belt
5) a cartridge; Sam Browne belt
6) a garter (AE), suspender (BE) belt
7) a chastity belt
8) a conveyor belt
9) (usu. fig.) below the belt ('unfairly')
zone
(AE)
10) the Bible; corn; cotton belt
symbol of expertise in judo or karate
11) a black; brown; white belt
misc.
12) under one's belt ('experienced, lived through')
II
v. (colloq. ) (O) I belted him one
Examples of use of BELT
1. Privatisation makes belt–tightening very difficult.
2. Instead, they unearthed Europe‘s largest iron belt.
3. Beating his belt against the roof of a car –– his slogan is " dale correa ," or, roughly translated, "beat with a belt," a wordplay on his last name, which means belt –– he promises to thrash them and the old political guard.
4. A second man wearing an explosive belt apparently was wounded by shrapnel from the first belt bomb and unable to detonate his own device, police and witnesses said.
5. The conveyor belt system means that trucks can back up to the belt on either side but does not require direct cross–border contact.