What's the difference between bell and belt?

Bell


Definition:

  • (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
  • (n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
  • (n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
  • (n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
  • (n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
  • (v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
  • (v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
  • (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
  • (v. t.) To utter by bellowing.
  • (v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The males had characteristic manifestations of the Martin-Bell syndrome.
  • (2) The bell-shaped dose-response curves observed after irradiation with either X rays or neutrons are explained by assuming simultaneous initial transforming events and cell inactivation with the data for cell inactivation at higher doses being in agreement with data reported for other strains of mice.
  • (3) In 2009, he allowed Imagine to be played on the cathedral bells.
  • (4) Auditory brain stem potentials (ABP) were recorded in 27 patients with Bell's palsy during the early phase of the disease and 1-3 months later.
  • (5) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
  • (6) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
  • (7) At low concentrations of gelactin, the gelatin of actin exhibits a bell-shaped dependency on free calcium ion concentration, being stimulated between pCa 8 and 6 and inhibited at pCa below 5.5, while at high gelactin concentrations the calcium sensitivity of actin gelation is apparently abolished.
  • (8) For an "FM specialized" cell, the response pattern to each of the parameters was either monotonic or bell-shaped.
  • (9) On the other hand they showed bell-shaped promotive effects on PRL-ovarian receptor binding, the maximal effects being observed at 10-20 mM.
  • (10) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
  • (11) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
  • (12) An 18-year-old mentally retarded male with the Martin-Bell syndrome was fragile X positive.
  • (13) A spokesman for the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which represents Rajapaksa, denied that he had cancelled his trip to the UK last month becuse of fears that he might face an arrest warrant.
  • (14) Oestrous and dioestrous rats were observed during the initial 2 min of open-field exposure, and after a loud bell had sounded.
  • (15) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
  • (16) When Question Time was moved to an earlier 9pm slot in May during the MPs' expenses scandal, a panel including Martin Bell, Ben Bradshaw and William Hague had 3.7 million viewers and a 17% share.
  • (17) At a higher concentration (20 microM), effects of RP 62719 on inotropy and lusitropy were less marked, thus accounting for the bell-shaped form of the dose-response curve.
  • (18) Had the Bell and Loop criteria been used to decide which patients had skull radiography, 35% (all in children) of the fractures would have gone undetected.
  • (19) At late cap stage and at early bell stage receptors are not present at inner enamel epithelium level but they can be detectable in the mesenchyma of dental papilla and in some cells of the follicle.
  • (20) They found her and rang the emergency bell,” she said.

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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