Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BELT

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Definitions of BELT

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. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
3. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
4. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
5. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
6. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
7. A quick drink of liquor.
8. (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
9. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
10. (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
11. (usually, capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
12. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
13. (weapons) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
14. (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
15. (transitive) To encircle.
16. (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
17. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
18. (transitive) To hit with a belt.
19. (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.
20. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
21. (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.
22. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
23. (intransitive) To move very fast.
24. A surname.
25. A town in Montana
26. Ellipsis of Main Asteroid Belt. A region in Solar System

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Examples of Using BELT in a Sentence

• A baldric (also baldrick, bawdrick, bauldrick as well as other rare or obsolete variations) is a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon (usually a sword) or other implement such as a bugle or drum.
• Belt (clothing), a flexible band or strap, typically made of leather or heavy cloth, and worn around the waist.
• He discovered the ninth planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt.
• The Great Belt Fixed Link (opened in 1997) connecting the islands of Zealand and Funen and the New Little Belt Bridge (opened in 1970) connecting Funen and Jutland greatly improved the traffic flow across the country on both motorways and rail.
• Its phrase "" ('Unity and Justice and Freedom') is considered the unofficial national motto of Germany, and is inscribed on modern German Army belt buckles and the rims of some German coins.
• It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive.
• The lake, which lies within the vast Clay Belt, is separated in two distinct portions by a short narrows, making it actually two lakes.
• A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny.
• Like coal and oil, bitumen occurs naturally and is obtained from the world's largest deposit in the Orinoco Belt in Venezuela.
• Plutinos form the inner part of the Kuiper belt and represent about a quarter of the known Kuiper belt objects.
• A pulley is a wheel on an axle or shaft enabling a taut cable or belt passing over the wheel to move and change direction, or transfer power between itself and a shaft.
• Polygyny is most common in a region known as the "polygamy belt" in West Africa and Central Africa, with the countries estimated to have the highest polygamy prevalence in the world being Burkina Faso, Mali, Gambia, Niger and Nigeria.
• Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a NASA robotic space probe launched on April 5, 1973, to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, the solar wind, and cosmic rays.
• Typically, TNOs are further divided into the classical and resonant objects of the Kuiper belt, the scattered disc and detached objects with the sednoids being the most distant ones.
• The hypothesis correctly anticipated the orbits of Ceres (in the asteroid belt) and Uranus, but failed as a predictor of Neptune's orbit.
• Vodka is traditionally drunk "neat" (not mixed with water, ice, or other mixers), and it is often served freezer chilled in the vodka belt of Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.
• The belt moves about 2,000 metric tons of rock containing phosphate every hour from the mines to El-Aaiun, where it is loaded and shipped.
• In the original records of New Amsterdam, the Dutch always called the street Het Cingel ("the Belt"), which was also the name of the original outer barrier street, wall, and canal of Amsterdam.
• Between July 15, 1972, and February 15, 1973, it became the first spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt.
• He is remembered for doing much to save Chicago from the declines that other rust belt cities, such as Cleveland, Buffalo, and Detroit, experienced during the same period.
• The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry of early Colorado.
• Phaeton, a planet situated between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt.
• Triton is thought to have once been a dwarf planet from the Kuiper belt, captured into Neptune's orbit by the latter's gravity.
• Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
• It is the second largest city in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of green belt known as the Meriden Gap; it is the third largest in the wider Midlands after Birmingham and Leicester.

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