Belt
[belt] or [bɛlt]
Definition
(noun.) a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist).
(noun.) endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys.
(noun.) ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun.
(noun.) an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found; 'a belt of high pressure'.
(verb.) fasten with a belt; 'belt your trousers'.
(verb.) deliver a blow to; 'He belted his opponent'.
Editor: Michel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
(n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
(n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
(n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
(n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
(n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
(n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
(v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
(v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.
Editor: Spence
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Girdle, cincture, cestus, band.
Typist: Meg
Definition
n. a girdle zone or band: such a piece as of leather worn by way of ornament or given as a prize or badge of victory in wrestling or the like: a broad strip of anything different in colour or material: that which confines or restrains: (geog.) a strait.—v.t. to surround with a belt or to invest formally with such as in knighting a man: to encircle: to thrash with a belt.—p.adj. Belt′ed wearing a belt of a knight: marked with a belt as the 'belted kingfisher.'—n. Belt′ing flexible belts for the transmission of motion in machinery made of leather indiarubber &c.—as in chainbelt crossed belt endless belt &c.; a thrashing.—To hold the belt to hold the championship in wrestling boxing or the like.
Checker: Newman
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you have a new style belt, denotes you are soon to meet and make engagements with a stranger, which will demoralize your prosperity. If it is out of date, you will be meritedly censured for rudeness.
Typist: Pearl
Examples
- Meanwhile the water strains through the wire cloth, leaving a thin layer of moist interlaced fibre spread in a white sheet over the surface of the belt. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He had no weapon, excepting a poniard at his belt, which served to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At his back was a quiver of arrows slung from a leathern shoulder belt, another piece of loot from some vanquished black. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The killed, and many of the severely wounded, of both armies, lay within this belt where it was impossible to reach them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The upper half of the wire cloth belt is supported by and runs over a series of closely juxtaposed rollers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He had a blue cloak, and was always girt with his sword, hilt and belt being of gold and silver. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The finished product is delivered to a belt-driven coiling reel on which it is wound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This machine had eight or ten spindles driven by cords or belts from the same wheel, and operated by hand or foot. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With those eight dynamos we had four belts between each engine and the dynamo. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Stick bombs hung handle down from their belts. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They were all out of the cave now, standing there with the carbines and with grenades on their belts. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There are patents for belts without number, for electric gloves, rings, bracelets, necklaces, trusses, corsets, shoes, hats, combs, brushes, chairs, couches, and blankets. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There he stood, in his belted Holland blouse, a light cap covering his head, which undress costume suited him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There stood our Professor, wearing, not his savage-looking palet?t and severe bonnet-grec, but a young-looking belted blouse and cheerful straw hat. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The next resort of Edison was to belts, the armature shafting belted to a countershaft on the locomotive frame, and the countershaft belted to a pulley on the car-axle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The lathes were worked right out in the street, and belted through the windows of the shop. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Endless leather belting was used to transmit the power from the motor to the counter-shaft, and from the latter to the driving-wheels, which were the front pair. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For driving the many machines, about fifty miles of leather belting are used, giving the room the appearance of a dense forest. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The rough outline sketched below shows the location of motor in relation to counter-shaft, belting, driving-wheels, idler, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Trevor