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belt English

Meaning belt meaning

What does belt mean?
Definitions in simple English

belt Noun

— A belt is a piece of clothing worn around a person's waist. They can be used to hold up trousers or skirts, or for carrying things in pockets, such as on a utility belt. I think I've put on weight. My belt is too tight. — A belt is used to hold people down for safety, such as a seat belt

belt

— 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 an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found a belt of high pressure — verb deliver a blow to He belted his opponent — verb (= belt out) sing loudly and forcefully — noun (= knock, bash, bang) a vigorous blow the sudden knock floored him he took a bash right in his face he got a bang on the head — noun ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun — verb fasten with a belt belt your trousers — noun (= whack) the act of hitting vigorously he gave the table a whack — noun (= swath) a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)

Synonyms belt synonyms

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belt English » English

girdle strap band zone sash waistband thong strip ribbon tape region knock bash waist-band girth gird bang whack beat area smash rope obi cincture whang stripe strike slap hit clout belted ammunition belt out belt ammunition wallop twine tier tie throw swing swath stroke string sphere smite rap percussion line leather strap leather belt leash

Topics belt topics

What do people use belt to talk about?
Person Healthy

Injure
Social behavior Law

Punish
Daily life Clothing

Men's clothing
Daily life Clothing

Women's clothing
Daily life Adornment

Jewelry
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Daily life Clothing

Parts of clothing
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Work and occupation Finance Have wealth

Store wealth
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Frugal
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Spend

Conjugation belt conjugation

How do you conjugate belt?

belt · verb

Examples belt examples

How do I use belt in a sentence?

Simple sentences

That is a leather belt.
This belt is too tight on me.
Fasten your seat belt, please.
Please fasten your seat belt.
Fasten your seat belt.
Please make sure that your seat belt is securely fastened.
I have to tighten my belt.
I like the one with a white belt.
His comment hit below the belt.
The belt is brown.
She wore a pink belt that was as ugly as it was expensive.
She advised him to fasten his seat belt.
The red belt makes her black dress look even better.
Please make certain your seat belt is fastened.
Fasten your seat belt when you drive.
But for the safety belt, I wouldn't be alive today.
The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like ours.
He's looking for a leather belt.

Movie subtitles

This is the Precious belt Bridge at Suzhou, with its 53 arches, one of the architectural marvels of the Grand canal.
Tighten your belt, Robert.
This woman was never drowned She was strangled with this belt.
You see, I didn't see the belt.
Now, is this belt yours or isn't it?
Oh, now I should be very much happier. Oh, much, much happier. if it were not for that belt. Oh, dear me, that belt.
If only I could get my coat with the belt, the police would realize what a colossal blunder they're making!
Now, where was I? Oh, yes. Christine Clay was strangled with a belt from a raincoat.
But I'm going to find it with its belt, you will see.
The tramp, the coat, the belt. Are you sure the tramp will be there?
There's no belt.
What have you done with the belt?
What have you done with that belt?
The costume includes a knife attached to your belt in a leather sheath, correct?
Is that so? Well, you keep it locked, see, until I get a few more drinks under my belt and when I come back Schnarzan's goose will be cooked.
It's the clouts below the belt I can't take.
Fasten your belt.
Your belt.
I almost forgot, I need another generator belt. - What happened?
The fan belt's shot.
Belt too tight.
Obviously, the section of land you are seeking must be somewhere on this belt.
How much is that belt in the window, the one that says 2.95?
Take off that belt, Sam.
Too bad. I should have brought my life belt with me.
This belt can replace Sister Marthe's.
Give me your belt.
I swiped it! Aw, go on or I'll belt ya one!
It's in the heart of the contract bridge belt, a wonderful game!
What are you doing with my belt?
I should have brought my life belt with me.
Here, take my belt!
And here. a belt, brand new.
Well. Never buy a brand new belt! You couldn't see anything through it!
Would you believe, Hussein-Husliya, this morning we have forgotten our favorite belt in the garden.
Is this the great emir's belt?
Take this belt as your reward!
Maybe this belt is yours, as well?
If we keep on, we'll be on our last belt by tomorrow.

News and current affairs

But when New Jersey Governor John Corzine was involved in a serious road accident last month, it became known that he violated his own state's law by not wearing his seat belt.
Some countries face the growing risk of near-perpetual belt-tightening, which would further dampen growth and thus keep debt ratios high.
Moreover, without growth, the social and political backlash against painful belt-tightening will eventually undermine austerity and reform.
This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.
Yet, when one considers other successful efforts to improve public health over the last five decades - for example, smoking bans, seat-belt laws, and speed limits - one finds that legislation typically supplemented education.
The New Silk Road land belt seeks to connect China with the economies of East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Europe through an expanded grid of rail, highways, power, fiber, and other networks.
This lowered interest rates in the so-called PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) and inflated housing bubbles just as reunification costs were forcing Germany to tighten its belt.
If people want to step off the conveyor belt, they are free to do so.
And, in May 2010, the IMF endorsed the European authorities' decision not to impose losses on Greece's private creditors - a move that was reversed only after unprecedented fiscal belt-tightening sent the Greek economy into a tailspin.
Human rights groups have long urged the necessity of extending the writ of Pakistan's Constitution to the tribal belt, where religion-based parties have wide support.
This cleared the way for politicians with a simple message: our countries have had enough of Western tutelage and belt-tightening; the time has come to return to our national values and interests.
WASHINGTON, DC - American foreign policy stands on the brink of substantial belt-tightening.
It is like saying that people are more likely to drive dangerously if they wear a seat belt; in fact, the opposite is more often the case.
The sectarianism plaguing the Sunni belt is affecting even the relatively stable oil sheikdoms of the Gulf, where a schism within the Gulf Cooperation Council is spurring new tensions and proxy competition among its members.
Saddled with a rust-belt infrastructure, Russia further disqualifies itself with dysfunctional and revanchist politics and a demographic trend in near-terminal decline.
When they do - and assuming that the government does not suddenly tighten its belt (it has no credible plan to do so) - there is every likelihood that America's appetite for foreign cash will surge again.
Were it to succeed, it would strain every other country in the eurozone, including those, like Italy and Spain, that have had to carry out their own belt-tightening.
The success of the rescue is far from assured, in view of the magnitude of belt-tightening that it calls for and the hostility that it has aroused on the part of Greek workers.
This is why the suicides are most prevalent in the cotton belt on which the seed industries' claim is rapidly becoming a stranglehold.
Typically, the IMF assesses whether a country, after undertaking reasonable belt-tightening measures, can service its debt - and lends only when it is satisfied that it can.
And the higher the debt, the less likely it is that the country will be able to achieve the mix of belt-tightening and growth that would enable it to generate the necessary surpluses.
At the same time, Germany, suffering from the after-effects of reunification, had to tighten its belt.
It also held its own in the predominantly Igbo southeast and the middle belt, home to several small ethnic groups.
Trade is the transmission belt through which supply adjusts to demand.
When the transmission belt of international trade that underlies such decisions is disrupted, the result is market turbulence.
Trade-distorting subsidies, high import tariffs, and export restrictions act as sand in the gears of the transmission belt and make it more difficult and expensive to bring food to the market - and thus to the family table.
The withdrawal of NATO forces before the job is done will leave India on the front lines to face the brunt of greater terror from the Afghanistan-Pakistan belt.

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