Word Finder - belt

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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.

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As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.

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A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.

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Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.

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A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.

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The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.

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Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

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a belt of trees; a belt of sand

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A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.

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the heavyweight belt

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A collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.

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One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

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A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.

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After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of barfighting.

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A quick drink of liquor.

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Care to join me in a belt of scotch?

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(usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).

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The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.

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That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt.

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Device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon

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To encircle.

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The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.

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To fasten a belt on.

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Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.

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To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.

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To hit with a belt.

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The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment.

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To scream or sing in a loud manner.

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He belted out the national anthem.

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To drink quickly, often in gulps.

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He belted down a shot of whisky.

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To hit someone or something.

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The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.

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To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.

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He belted that pitch over the grandstand.

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To move very fast

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He was really belting along.

She tugged on the belt of his robe.

The Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line encircles the two cities, and connects the various trunk lines.

He nodded, pointing to his belt buckle.

He unfastened the belt around her waist and flung it into the darkness.

It was a good thing he was wearing that big belt buckle.

The coastal belt of Australia is everywhere well watered, with the exception of the country around the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf.

Yet this narrow belt of water is the boundary line between the Australasian and the Indian regions.

He waited while she buckled her seat belt and stashed her things.

She only made it a few steps away from him when she felt a tug on her back belt loop.

She darted after Arnie and snatched his belt.

He ripped the clothing from her, then sliced through her belt, shoving her over the stack of trunks.

She shoved one blade into her belt and stripped the knives off the dead men, putting them in her cargo pockets.

Xander tied the necklace around his belt and stood.

Xander dropped his feet from the other chair and hauled her in front of him, then yanked her belt to bring her into his lap.

From these streets others strike at right angles down to the harbour, while others again lead obliquely up towards the Belt, beyond which are extensive suburbs.

But it is notable that all recent volcanic action was confined to a wide belt parallel to the coast.

From the western end of the Yablonoi range, on the 115th meridian, a mountainous belt extends along a somewhat irregular line to the extremity of Pamir, known under various names Mongolia.

Along the eastern border of this delta, and southward of it, along the Mississippi itself, extends a belt of hills or bluffs (sometimes called "cane-hills"), which is cut by deep ravines and, though very narrow in the north, has in the south an average width of about to m.

East of the belt are level or gently rolling prairies, and along the Gulf Coast is a low, marshy tract.

The portion of Asia which lies between the Arctic Ocean and the mountainous belt bounding Manchuria, Mongolia and Turkestan Siberia.

It thus places a broad width of independent territory between the boundaries of British India (which have remained practically, though not absolutely, untouched) and Afghanistan; and this independent belt includes Swat, Bajour and a part of the Nlohmand territory north of the Kabul river.

North of this lies a broad belt in which the Mesozoic deposits and even the lower divisions of the Tertiary system are thrown into folds which extend in a series of arcs from west to east and now form the principal mountain ranges of central Asia.

The Kuen-lun, Nan-shan and the mountain ranges of southern China are, perhaps, of earlier date, but nevertheless they lie in the same belt.

North of the folded belt, and including Emery the greater part of Siberia, Mongolia and northern China, lies another area which is, in general, free from any important folding of Mesozoic or Tertiary age.

Besides the three chief regions into which the mainland is thus seen to be divided, attention should be drawn to the festoons of islands which border the eastern side of the continent, and which are undoubtedly due to causes similar to those which produced the folds of the folded belt.

Overlooking all smaller details, we may consider Asia to consist of a northern mass and a southern mass, too rigid to crumple, but not too strong to fracture, and an intermediate belt of softer rock which was capable of folding.

The belt of folding does not precisely coincide with this central sea, but the correspondence is fairly close.

Between India and China there is a broad belt in which marine deposits of Mesozoic and Tertiary age are well developed.

In the southern region of unfolded beds are found the lavas of the " harras " of Arabia, and in India the extensive flows of the Deccan Trap. In the central folded belt lie the great volcanoes, now mostly extinct, of Asia Minor, Armenia, Persia and Baluchistan.

This belt, which embraces Asia Minor, northern Persia, Afghanistan, and the southern slopes of the Himalaya, from its elevation has a temperate climate, and throughout it the rainfall is sufficient to maintain a vigorous vegetation, while the summers, though hot, and the winters, though severe, are not extreme.

North of the lower course of the Maumee river is a belt of sand, but Ohio drift generally contains a large mixture of clay.

One of Philip's ideals was the curbing of colonial "aggression" by the creation of a belt of native states around Cape Colony.

During June and the first fortnight in July plenty of sunshine is necessary, accompanied by sufficient rain to promote healthy, but not excessive, growth; the normal rainfall in the cotton belt for this period is about 42 in.

The exhaustion of the soil under cotton culture is chiefly due to the loss of humus, and nature soon puts this back in the excellent climate of the cotton-growing belt.

In the cotton belt of the United States it would be possible to put a still greater acreage under this crop, but the tendency is rather towards what is known as " diversified " or mixed farming than to making cotton the sole important crop. Cotton, however, is in increasing demand, and the problem for the American cotton planter is to obtain a better yield of cotton from the same area, - by " better yield " meaning an increase not only in quantity but also in quality of lint.

The profits obtained from ground-nuts (Arachis hypogea) in Gambia, gold mining in the Gold Coast, and from products of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) in the palm-oil belt serve to prevent much attention being given to cotton in these districts.

The engine, which is provided with reversing gear, is of 12 or 15 horse-power and motion is communicated through a belt to the band-wheel, which operates the walking-beam by means of a crank.

Thus, although Alexius had been able, in the wake of the crusading armies, to recover a large belt of land round the whole coast of Asia Minor, - the interior remaining subject to the sultans of Konia (Iconium) and the princes of Sivas, - he left the territories to the east of the western boundary of Cilicia in the hands of the Latins when he died in 1118.

Geologically, Syria belongs to two distinct regions of the earth's crust, the northern and smaller portion lying within the great belt of folding of southern Europe and central Asia, and the southern and larger portion belonging to the Indo-African area, which, though often faulted, is usually free from crumpling.

Little is known of the part of Syria which lies within the folded belt, and includes the Amanus and Kurd mountains.

The principal minerals are rock phosphate and (recently more important) land and river pebble phosphate, found in scattered deposits in a belt on the " west coast " about 30 m.

As is shown by its name the province is situated in the centre of the Indian peninsula, comprising a large proportion of the broad belt of hill and plateau country which separates the plains of Hindustan from the Deccan.

To the north, west and south, a flat coastal belt, bordering the Irish Sea, with its inlets Morecambe Bay and Solway Firth, and broadest in the north, marks off the Lake District, while to the east the valleys of the Eden and the Lune divide it from the Pennine mountain system.

Old Red Sandstone, red grits, sandstones and marls and conglomerate occur in a narrow belt on the east side of Mainland from Sumburgh Head to Rova Head, north of Lerwick; they also form the island of Bressay.

In Unst the high ground on the west coast consists of gneiss, which is followed eastward by schists of various kinds, then by a belt of serpentine, 2 m.

Each of the larger streams, as well as a large proportion of the smaller ones, is accompanied by a belt of bottom land, of greater or less width, lying low as regards the stream, and liable to overflow at times of high water.

These flood plains form collectively what is known as the alluvial region, which extends in a broad belt down the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico, and up the Ouachita and its branches and the Red river to and beyond the limits of the state.

The eastern pine belt is composed of the long-leaf pine, interspersed with some loblolly.

Near the coast runs a continuous belt of plantations, while grazing, tobacco and general farm lands cover the lower slopes of the hills, and virgin forests much of the uplands and mountains.

This lowlying fertile belt stretches along the river for about 300 m., but is not more than a mile or two wide.