(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.
Welt
Definition:
(n.) That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
(n.) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.
(n.) A hem, border, or fringe.
(n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
(n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
(n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
(n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
(n.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
(v. t.) To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
(v. t.) To wilt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight patients with dermal exposure had irritation ranging from erythema to welts, which resolved after thorough soap and water decontamination.
(2) Those very arsonists who spread exclusion and intolerance are now projecting an image of themselves as the upright citizens.” The head of the German police trade union Rainer Wendt told Die Welt that he feared the event, which last week drew 18,000 supporters, had itself become a possible magnet for terrorists.
(3) In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy.” 'In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy' Die Welt deputy editor Ulf Poschardt The rhetoric may be overblown, but the remarkable fact is that Berlin will ultimately not further develop a hugely valuable piece of real estate, all because the people decided they didn’t trust big business not to mess up the park they loved.
(4) Die Welt are lucky to be part of Axel Springer, Europe's largest newspaper publisher whose portfolio also contains Bild, still the world's bestselling non-Asian newspaper and the Germany's most successful news website: pressure on Die Welt to make a profit is relatively low, so they have the luxury to experiment with new models that may later be rolled out elsewhere.
(5) After weeks of open criticism, Die Welt also heaped praise on the German coaching team’s tactical flexibility.
(6) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
(7) Stark , who surprisingly quit the Board almost a year ago , wrote in Die Welt today that the ECB has been pushed to the brink of abandoning its mandate to control inflation: The political pressure on the central bank is massive... Monetary policy must not be conditional.
(8) Major loci affecting the difference between the fast and the slow remating speed map to the right arm of chromosome II to the right of welt (wt).
(9) In Paris, as their counterparts at Die Welt were planning their own pages, journalists at the offices of France Soir, an ailing tabloid based in an industrial estate in the north ofthe city, were also deciding that the cartoons should be published - for somewhat different reasons.
(10) When one German language school in Istanbul was forced to cancel its festivities, the daily Die Welt responded with a caricature of Erdoğan on its front page as the Grinch who stole Christmas.
(11) In his interview with Welt am Sonntag, Hammond also emphasised that restricting immigration would be the British government’s priority during negotiations.
(12) Theresa May says rise in Europeans moving to UK likely before a Brexit Read more Volker Bouffier, premier of the German state of Hesse – home to Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt – told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that “quite a number of Brits” were currently applying for German citizenship.
(13) One principle-ist, the former parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, recently told Die Welt, the German newspaper, that Iran needed "more national manufacturing, and a change in people's lifestyle".
(14) Cousin spots Beasley one-on-one with Anderson and welts the ball forward towards him.
(15) In the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Henryk M Broder said of Roche: "She does what she wants without worrying what Simone de Beauvoir or Andrea Dworkin would say about it."
(16) I don’t think its a good idea to dilute the sporting value,” the 2014-World Cup-winning coach told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview on Sunday.
(17) Martin Schulz told Die Welt: “We must try to avoid this, because the consequences would be dramatic.
(18) But according to Die Welt, some of the leaked documents were part of the communication between the office of the chancellor, Angela Merkel, and that of the president of BND, while others contained an overview of BND locations around the world – which might hint at a more general spying strategy rather than a targeted operation.
(19) According to Die Welt newspaper, the staffer being investigated is a soldier who had caught the attention of the German military counter-intelligence service after establishing regular contact with people thought to be working for a US secret agency.
(20) But she stepped back from the company at the end of last year, telling Die Welt in an interview that “combining politics on a national, state and local level with family and the company is simply not possible.