What's the difference between band and belt?

Band


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.
  • (v. t.) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.
  • (v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
  • (v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
  • (v. t.) A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • (v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
  • (v. t.) A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.
  • (v. t.) A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.
  • (v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.
  • (v. t.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.
  • (v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.
  • (v. t.) A belt or strap.
  • (v. t.) A bond
  • (v. t.) Pledge; security.
  • (v. t.) To bind or tie with a band.
  • (v. t.) To mark with a band.
  • (v. t.) To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
  • (v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.
  • (v. t.) To bandy; to drive away.
  • () imp. of Bind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (2) Oligoclonal bands were not detected in any of the sera or CSF.
  • (3) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
  • (4) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
  • (5) The intensity of the type III specific peptide bands correlates with the type III content of the samples.
  • (6) After Western blot, 2 of the 5 protein bands of swine-cag (27 and 57 kD) and 3 of the 8 protein bands of human cag (27, 32, and 57 kD) reacted with the anti-Toxoplasma antibody used in the ELISA.
  • (7) One major band with a molecular weight of 12,000 was detected by autofluorography and coincided with the Coomassie staining band of apocytochrome c from S. cerevisiae.
  • (8) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
  • (9) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
  • (10) A standard protocol is reported for the highly efficient demonstration of replication patterns corresponding to R-type and G-type banding.
  • (11) The field of labeling formed a continuous band from rostro-laterally to caudo-medially.
  • (12) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
  • (13) One of the HEF bands can be separated from two others with beta-alanine as discrete spacer.
  • (14) In all these subjects, fluorescent staining and G-banding on chromosomes from cultured leukocytes confirmed their karyotype.
  • (15) Thus, whereas CD3-associated molecules isolated from polyclonal CD3+WT31+ populations (expanded in IL 2 under the same culture conditions) appeared as diffuse bands, CD3-associated molecules isolated from CD3+WT31- populations displayed a homogeneous molecular mass.
  • (16) Inclusion-forming and non-inclusion-forming elementary bodies focused in one band at pI 4.64.
  • (17) Two Raman bands at 880 and 1360 cm-1 of tryptophan (Trp) side chains have been found useful in structural studies of the side chains in proteins.
  • (18) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
  • (19) The results showed that twenty-eight bands were significantly rearranged (P less than 0.05).
  • (20) The "Mg(2+)-Sarkosyl crystals" (M band) technique distinguishes between membrane-bound and free intracellular DNA.

Belt


Definition:

  • (n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
  • (n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
  • (n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.
  • (n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
  • (n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
  • (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
  • (n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
  • (n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
  • (n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
  • (v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
  • (v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
  • (2) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
  • (3) Thirty adult male Wister rats were pretrained to criterion on the moving belt test, and then made tolerant to ethanol by daily administration of increasing doses over a period of 3 weeks.
  • (4) The extra enforcement produced increases in the use of seat belts by drivers during the four months of the heightened enforcement.
  • (5) Two hundred and forty-four motor car occupants involved in road traffic accidents, who sustained injuries sufficiently severe to require admission to hospital, have been investigated in order to assess the value of seat belts.
  • (6) A woman in labor and not wearing a seat belt sustained multiple fractures of the pelvis and femur while in an automobile accident.
  • (7) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
  • (8) We analized 71 car head-on collisions with 100 persons involved wearing seat belts.
  • (9) The cola accuminata is more popular in the Ibo and Igedde tribes of the Eastern and Middle Belt regions respectively in Nigeria, while cola nitida is preferred by the Hausa-Fulani tribes of the Northern part of Nigeria.
  • (10) The records of 950 MVA-related injury victims treated at San Francisco General Hospital during comparable 3-month periods in 1985 (451) and 1986 (499) were reviewed to assess the effect of seat belt legislation on reduction of maxillofacial trauma.
  • (11) People were holding on to him, trying to pull themselves up by his belt, but only succeeded in dragging him into the water.
  • (12) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
  • (13) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
  • (14) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
  • (15) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
  • (16) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
  • (17) "Celtic fans still regularly belt out The Ballad of Willie Maley," writes Mark Sheffield.
  • (18) A pair of bizarre photographs have been widely circulated online, that appear to show alleged EgyptAir hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa posing for pictures with passengers in what is believed to have been a fake suicide belt.
  • (19) There's a lot of money betting that you soon will and that device will look a lot like something you own already – a belt, a watch, glasses.
  • (20) Tight junctions only occur in inflamed tissue between the most superficial cells usually as part of a lateral intercellular junctional complex that also contains belt desmosomes.

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