unbelted

«unbelted» in Mova's school dictionary: Not wearing a seat belt in a car or other vehicle — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (unbelted)

meaning for a pupil

1) Not wearing a seat belt in a car or other vehicle. tree →

2) Without a belt: an unbelted coat or dress. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used mostly in road safety lessons and news: unbelted passengers are much more likely to be badly hurt in a crash. Tells the reader someone is in danger or breaking the rules.

examples

• Unbelted passengers can be thrown forward in a crash. tree →
• The police stopped the driver because a child was unbelted. tree →
• Never ride unbelted, even for a short trip. tree →
• The unbelted coat flapped open in the wind. tree →
• The poster showed an unbelted dummy flying through the windscreen. tree →
• In the survey, 2 of the 40 drivers were unbelted. tree →

note

un- + belted. Takes «an»: «an unbelted passenger». Safety fact: wearing a seat belt is the law in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland for almost everyone in a car.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unbelted» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.