belt
part of speech
noun (a belt, belts); verb (belt, belts, belted, belting — informal)
meaning for a pupil
1) A belt is a strip of leather, cloth or plastic worn around the waist to hold up trousers or as decoration. tree →
2) A seat belt is a strap in a car, bus or plane that holds you safely in your seat. tree →
3) A belt can be a long, narrow area: a belt of rain, the asteroid belt. tree →
4) In machines, a belt is a moving loop that turns wheels, like a conveyor belt. tree →
5) In karate and judo a coloured belt shows your level. tree →
6) Informally, to belt means to hit hard or to go very fast. tree →
7) To pull in your belt is to spend less and live more simply when times are hard. tree →
sense in the lessons
In safety lessons «belt up» means put on your seat belt every time, in every seat; children use booster seats until they are big enough. In science the asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter, and a conveyor belt is a simple machine that moves things. In clothes, a belt is buckled. Phrases: seat belt, belt up, tighten your belt (spend less money), under your belt (already done), black belt, conveyor belt.
examples
- Put on your seat belt before the car moves. tree →
- My trousers are too big, so I wear a belt. tree →
- She has a yellow belt in karate. tree →
- The asteroid belt lies between Mars and Jupiter. tree →
- Our shopping moved along the conveyor belt at the checkout. tree →
- Belt up, everyone; we're leaving! tree →
- A belt of rain will cross the country tonight. tree →
- With one race under his belt, he felt less nervous. tree →
- So he went away pulling in his belt and promising to return. tree →
note
Countable: belts. «Belt up» means fasten your seat belt (UK), but it can also be rude slang for «be quiet». Wearing a seat belt is the law in many countries, for children and adults. A belt should never be put around anyone's neck.
In the corpora
- Each animal got «a belt... and then a sword... and then a cutlass on the other side to balance it.
- A child uses a booster seat until the adult belt fits, usually around 145 to 150 cm or 4 feet 9 inches tall.
- The seat belt stays on until the car has stopped and the engine is off.
- Everyone needs their own seat belt; two children never share one and nobody rides on a lap.
- Seat belts and the right car seat or booster stop many children being killed or badly hurt in crashes every year.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «belt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.