belt
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbelt (plural belts)
- 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.
- As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- a belt of trees; a belt of sand
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- the heavyweight belt
- (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
- The battleship was protected by a twelve-inch belt just above the waterline.
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of bar fights.
- A quick drink of liquor.
- Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
- (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt.
- (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
- (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
- Both auditionees had great ranges but Diamond had the strong belt we really need for the finale.
- 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[1], volume 13, number 2, , page 226:
- 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.
- 2018, Norman Spivey, Mary Saunder Barton, Cross-Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act, Plural Publishing, →ISBN, page 57:
- In Clara's furious rant in Act II, Allsun broke out of her soprano into a belt, which made perfect sense in the moment.
- (geography, geology) A mostly-continuous, often curvilinear structure expressed on the surface and/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.
- 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.
- 1980, B. C. Burchfiel, “Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts—Review”, in AAPG Bulletin[2], volume 64, number 5, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, , page 684:
- 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.
Synonyms
edit- (band worn around waist): girdle, waistband, sash, strap
- (band used as safety restraint): restraint, safety belt, seat belt
- (powerful blow): blow, punch, sock, wallop
- (quick drink of liquor): dram, nip
Derived terms
edit- Adonis belt
- ammo belt
- ammunition belt
- Apollo's belt
- asteroid belt
- bagel belt
- below the belt
- belt and braces
- belt and suspenders
- belt bag
- belt conveyor
- belt course
- belt drive
- belt-drive
- belted (adjective)
- Belter
- belter
- belt-fed
- beltfish
- beltful
- belt highway
- beltless
- beltlike
- beltline
- belt loop
- beltmaker
- beltmaking
- belt of the crozier
- belt of Venus
- beltpack
- belt purse
- belt-sand
- belt sander
- belt-tighten
- belt-tightening
- belt tightening
- belt track
- beltway
- beltwise
- beltwork
- belty
- Bible Belt
- Bible belt
- biobelt
- black belt
- Black Belt
- Borscht Belt
- cambelt
- cartridge belt
- chastity belt
- Clarke belt
- coin belt
- commuter belt
- conveyer belt
- conveyor belt
- Copperbelt
- cow belt
- crossbelt
- cross-belt sorter
- cross belt sorter
- dance belt
- dog-belt
- Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
- endless belt
- exoasteroid belt
- explosive belt
- fanbelt
- fan belt
- fly belt
- four-belt
- garrison belt
- garter belt
- Great Belt
- green belt
- grey belt
- gunbelt
- hydraulic belt
- icebelt
- innerbelt
- kidney belt
- Kuiper belt
- Kuiper belt object
- lap belt
- lap belt
- life belt
- Little Belt
- Little Belt
- main asteroid belt
- main belt, main-belt
- mist-belt
- mist belt
- money belt
- mortgage belt
- muesli belt malnutrition
- nanobelt
- notch in one's belt
- notch on one's belt
- Orion's belt
- panty-belt
- peace belt
- photon belt
- pricking at the belt
- quarter belt
- Quran Belt
- radiation belt
- rocket belt
- rustbelt
- rust-belt
- rust belt
- Rust Belt
- safety belt
- Sam Browne belt
- sandbelt
- sash belt
- seat-belt
- seat belt, seatbelt
- serpentine belt
- shelter belt
- shelterbelt
- shoulderbelt
- shoulder belt
- snowbelt
- Stroke Belt
- suicide belt
- sunbelt
- Sun Belt
- Sunni belt
- sushi belt
- suspender belt
- swordbelt
- tighten one's belt
- time belt
- timing belt
- toolbelt
- town belt
- unbelt
- under one's belt
- utility belt
- Van Allen belt
- Van Allen radiation belt
- waistbelt
- wampum belt
- wheatbelt, Wheatbelt
- white belt
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Verb
editbelt (third-person singular simple present belts, present participle belting, simple past and past participle belted)
- (transitive) To encircle.
- The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
- (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
- 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.
- (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- (transitive) To hit with a belt.
- The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment.
- (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.
- He belted out the national anthem.
- 2017 May 22, Mallory Carra, “Celine Dion Is Making Everyone Cry”, in Bustle[3], BDG Media, retrieved 2022-01-01:
- 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.
- (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
- He belted down a shot of whisky.
- (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.
- The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
- 1996, “Three Lions”, performed by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner:
- Bobby belting the ball
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- He belted that pitch over the grandstand.
- (intransitive) To move very fast.
- He was really belting along.
Synonyms
edit- (to encircle): circle, girdle, surround
- (to fasten a belt): buckle, fasten, strap
- (to hit with a belt): strap, whip
- (to drink quickly): gulp, pound, slurp
- (to hit someone or something): bash, clobber, smack, wallop
- (to move quickly): book, speed, whiz, zoom
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Noun
editbelt (plural belde)
- A belt (garment).
Dutch
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editA variant of bult.
Noun
editbelt m or f (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)
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editEtymology 2
editNoun
editbelt m (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)
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editDescendants
edit- → Caribbean Javanese: bèlt
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editbelt
- inflection of bellen:
Maltese
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editbelt f (plural bliet)
- city, town
- Synonym: (obsolete) mdina
- 2022, Nadia Mifsud, meta tinfetaq il-folla, Ede Books, →ISBN:
- f’żarbun ġa ssikkat. irkiekel dahri
tat-terrakotta - ’kk tmisshom,
isiru frak. dil-belt tentakli waħedha -
għoddha qalftitni fatat.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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editOld English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz. Cognate with Old High German balz, Old Norse belti.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbelt m (nominative plural beltas)
- A belt.
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- en:Clothing
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