What's the difference between belt and clobber?

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.

Clobber


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Small business gets clobbered by taxes and business rates, while big business turns around and says to the state: "This is how much tax I fancy paying this year, take it or leave it".
  • (2) Mark Cavendish, the flash "Manx Missile", who has won 25 stages of the Tour de France, thanks his "sprint train" with expensive watches and designer clobber when they lead him out to victory.
  • (3) 7.10pm BST Game and third set to Milos Raonic The Canadian clobbers an ace to take the game to love.
  • (4) This rhetoric has been dropped since he gained power and he now accepts that climate change is a problem worth tackling, provided it doesn’t “clobber jobs”.
  • (5) Ed Krell, the chief executive of US group Destination Maternity, has left to "pursue other opportunities", six weeks after he somehow saw an opportunity to bid for the UK baby clobber chain.
  • (6) I wanted not to give the impression of ‘here I come, surrounded by the security detail, out of the big white car with journos hanging off my every word, I’m so powerful’ – I actually wanted to give the impression to people that despite all the eccentric clobber that’s around me, we can have a conversation.
  • (7) All three of the city's branches of the Strenesse fashion chain, stockists of official Nationalmannschaft clobber, have run out of the slinky kashmir number (just €299 to you), and there's now a waiting list, but new stocks aren't expected until August."
  • (8) After a 4-0 clobbering by Germany in their opening game, manager Paulo Bento had been candid enough to admit that anything less than a victory over the USA would effectively spell the end for his team.
  • (9) But then the morning comes with a story about a clobbered gay man.
  • (10) Women nipped about on mopeds in summer frocks instead of the usual leather clobber; sales of bikes and scooter below the 125cc limit - which allowed you unlimited travel if you had L-plates - went up by a quarter.
  • (11) I then came across an ebook by Mary Elizabeth Croft, How I Clobbered every Cash Confiscatory Bureau .
  • (12) What the experts say: TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady: An early interest rate rise would clobber mortgage holders and businesses – jeopardising our economic recovery.
  • (13) Jack Wilshere felt his ankle after a tackle from Mehmet Topal; Wojciech Szczesny was caught late by Moussa Sow and suffered scratches to his neck while Per Mertesacker was clobbered by an elbow from Bruno Alves, for which the Fenerbahce player was booked.
  • (14) The big fear is that consumers, especially the majority of homeowners with floating-rate mortgages, will be clobbered if the Bank of England feels compelled to raise interest rates.
  • (15) Those stands were awash with sunlight and yellow clobber as the crowd generated a cheery hubbub aimed at helping their team to climb out of its predicament.
  • (16) Add in high oil prices, falling house prices in countries such as Spain and Ireland, plus last month's interest rate rise from the European Central Bank, and you have a toxic mix that is clobbering an economic area which until recently was proud of being less exposed than Britain to the credit crunch.
  • (17) Here, clobber, shoes and jewellery are on the menu, complete with a Tinder-style swiping system to like or reject individual items.
  • (18) Small properties in London would be clobbered, but "mansions" (by comparison) would seem like tax havens.
  • (19) There was no need for him to point to misfortune here, as his team fully deserved their clobbering.
  • (20) Thus the Labour leader realised his speech would see him clobbered from the Labour right and the Labour left in unholy unprecedented alliance.

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