What's the difference between belt and lamp?

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.

Lamp


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin plate or lamina.
  • (n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
  • (n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
  • (n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Absence of linkage in a large group of families shows that lamp genes are not involved in Salla disease.
  • (2) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
  • (3) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
  • (5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
  • (6) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
  • (7) In the adult, LAMP-immunoreactive membrane patches are present exclusively postsynaptically on neuronal somata and dendrites.
  • (8) Optical differences between a mercury arc lamp and a laser-illuminated flow cytometer are compared.
  • (9) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
  • (10) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
  • (11) LAMP-2 was closely related or identical to the macrophage antigen, MAC-3, as indicated by antibody adsorption and tryptic peptide mapping.
  • (12) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
  • (13) In order to pursue this process the slit-lamp examination is recommended as necessary and useful method.
  • (14) We investigated the possibility of significant corneal trauma (as revealed by slit lamp observation of the fluorescein instilled eye), and massage effects following determination of intraocular pressure with the A. O. Non-Contact tonometer (NCT).
  • (15) Fluorometric studies have been made with modified slit-lamp microscopes.
  • (16) Treatment was administered with white light produced by a commercially available halogen-tungsten lamp.
  • (17) In view of the equivalence of these methods, we would advocate, for reasons of ease of application and cost, the use of a single-color slit-lamp photograph with a 30 degree slit angle for documenting nuclear opacities, and the use of black-and-white retroillumination photography with either the Neitz or Oxford cataract cameras for cortical and posterior subcapsular opacities.
  • (18) Bacterial corneal ulcer is a potentially blinding emergency which should ideally be treated by an ophthalmologist aided by slit lamp biomicroscopy, microbial stain and cultures, and then selected fortified topical antibiotics.
  • (19) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
  • (20) Body temperature was continuously monitored with a rectal thermistor and maintained by adjustment of a heating pad and lamp.

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