• Breton: bandenn -où p
• Dutch: riem
• Finnish: vyö
• Ido: rimeno
• Italian: cinghia
• Kurdish:
• Russian: ремень (r'emén’)
• Spanish: correa

• Italian: colpo
• Russian: удар
• Spanish: golpe, golpear

Verb

1. To encircle.

   The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.

2. To fasten a belt.

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

   The rotund man had difficulting belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.

3. To hit with a belt.

   The child was remanded to state custody when the lacerations on her back where her parents had belted her in punishment were revealed.

4. To sing in a loud manner.

   He belted out the national anthem.

5. To drink quickly, often in gulps.

   He belted down a shot of whisky.

6. In the context of "transitive|slang": To hit someone or something.

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

7. To move very fast

   He was really belting along.

Synonyms

• (to encircle): circle, girdle, surround
• (fasten a belt): buckle, fasten, strap in
• (hit with a belt): strap, whip
• (drink quickly): gulp, pound, slurp
• (to hit someone or something): bash, clobber, smack, wallop
• (move quickly): book, speed, whiz, zoom

Derived terms

• belt up

Dutch

Verb

belt

1. third person singular present tense of bellen; rings

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بلد.

Noun

belt

1. town

Old English

Etymology

Common Germanic *baltjaz, whence also Old High German balz, Old Norse belti

Noun

belt

1. belt

Belt can refer to the following objects:

• A belt (clothing) is an article of clothing worn around the waist to hold trousers up or as a fashion accessory.
• A belt (mechanical) is a looped, flexible connection, used for power transmission; it is called conveyor belt when part of a conveyance system.
• A Belt (firearm) is a single row of cartridges which are held together with cloth or metal links, for use in a (typically automatic) firearm.
• A leather belt as attribute of certain Confraternities of the Cord and/or as penitential device.
• A championship in combat sports such as boxing, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling, which is used as the equivalent of a trophy and awarded to the winner of a championship in a sport.
• Dance belt, an undergarment worn by male dancers.
• Belt track, the common term for Kégresse track, a kind of track drive that uses reinforced flexible belts instead of linked belts for traction.
• Vocal belting, a singing technique.
• Police duty belt, A belt for police officers, which holds all the equipment they need to conduct their duties.
• Belt (recording artist)
• Chastity belt
• In automobiles:
  • A safety or seat belt.
  • A fan belt.
  • An engine timing belt.
• In astronomy:
  • An asteroid belt or "main belt is a cluster of asteroids orbiting a star. There is one in this solar system, located between Mars and Jupiter.
  • The Kuiper belt is an area of the solar system extending from within the orbit of Neptune. Objects within the Kuiper Belt are referred to as trans-Neptunian objects (a type of minor planet) or asteroids
  • The Oort Belt or Oort cloud is located outside the orbit scattered disc and Pluto's orbit where comets are presumed to be formed

• In geology and geography, a belt is a region with a roughly elongated form, or sometimes a sequence of roughly parallel forms, as in
  • "Belt" regions of Canada
  • "Belt" regions of the United States

As a geographical name it also refers to the following places:

• The Belts are the straits of the Baltic Sea between Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In particular the little Belt is referenced in the first stanza of Das Lied der Deutschen, a German national anthem (the first stanza is no longer used).
• Belt, Montana is a small city in Cascade County, Montana, U.S.
• Belt (Netherlands), a small village on the former island of Wieringen, in the Dutch province of North Holland

In fast food, a B.E.L.T. (Bacon, Egg, Lettuce, Tomato) is a sandwich available at Tim Hortons restaurants.

seealso Balteus

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