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belt
English
Etymology
From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
belt (plural belts)
- A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- (astronomy) A collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- A quick drink of liquor.
- (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon
- (music) Vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
Synonyms
- (band worn around waist): girdle, waistband, sash, strap
- (band used as safety restraint): restraint, safety belt, seat belt
- (powerful blow): blow, punch, sock, wallop
- (quick drink of liquor): dram, nip
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Afrikaans: belt
- ? Assamese: ????? (belto)
- ? Bengali: ????? (bel?)
- ? Dutch: belt
- ? Hindi: ????? (bel?)
- ? Irish: beilt
- ? Japanese: ??? (beruto)
- ? Oriya: ?????? (bel?)
- ? Urdu: ????? (bel?)
- ? Welsh: belt
Translations
Verb
belt (third-person singular simple present belts, present participle belting, simple past and past participle belted)
- (transitive) To encircle.
- (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
- (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- (transitive) To hit with a belt.
- (transitive, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.
- (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
- (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- (intransitive) To move very fast.
Synonyms
- (to encircle): circle, girdle, surround
- (to fasten a belt): buckle, fasten, strap
- (to hit with a belt): strap, whip
- (to drink quickly): gulp, pound, slurp
- (to hit someone or something): bash, clobber, smack, wallop
- (to move quickly): book, speed, whiz, zoom
Derived terms
- belted l
- belt out
- belt up
- beltloop
Translations
Anagrams
- blet
Afrikaans
Etymology
Borrowed from English belt.
Noun
belt (plural belde)
- A belt (garment).
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?lt/
- Hyphenation: belt
- Rhymes: -?lt
Etymology 1
A variant of bult.
Noun
belt m or f (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)
- (archaic) A heap, hill
- A dumpsite, notably for waste products.
Derived terms
- asbelt
- afvalbelt
- beltmolen
- gifbelt
- vuilnisbelt
- zandbelt
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English belt.
Noun
belt m (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)
- (Suriname) (clothing) A belt.
Synonyms
- riem, broeksriem, gordel
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
belt
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of bellen
- (archaic) plural imperative of bellen
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (balad).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?lt/
Noun
belt f (plural bliet)
- A city, town.
Related terms
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *baltijaz. Cognate with Old High German balz, Old Norse belti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /belt/, [be?t]
Noun
belt m (nominative plural beltas)
- A belt.
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: belt
- English: belt (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: belt
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seam
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si?m/
- Homophones: seem, seme
- Rhymes: -i?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English seem, seme, from Old English s?am (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).
Alternative forms
- seme (obsolete)
Noun
seam (plural seams)
- (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- A suture.
- (geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
- (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
- (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
- A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- (figuratively) A line of junction; a joint.
- 1697, Joseph Addison, Essay on Virgil's Georgics
- Precepts should be so finely wrought together […] that no coarse seam may discover where they join.
- 1697, Joseph Addison, Essay on Virgil's Georgics
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From the noun seam.
Verb
seam (third-person singular simple present seams, present participle seaming, simple past and past participle seamed)
- To put together with a seam.
- To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
- To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
- To crack open along a seam.
- 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- Later their lips began to parch and seam.
- 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
- (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
Quotations
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor:
- Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!
Etymology 3
From Old English s?am (“a burden”), from Latin sagma (“saddle”).
Noun
seam (plural seams)
- (historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
- (historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
- 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 175.
- As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, or pondera) of 5 lb., and 2½ lb. was reckoned sufficient to make one foot of glazing, the cost of glass would be 1½d. leaving 2½d. for labour.
- 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 175.
Etymology 4
From Middle English seime (“grease”), from Old French saim (“fat”). Compare French saindoux (“lard”).
Noun
seam (plural seams)
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Further reading
- seam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- seam (sewing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- AMEs, ASME, Ames, MSAE, Mesa, Same, eams, mase, meas, meas., mesa, same
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sæ???m/
Noun
s?am m (nominative plural s?amas)
- seam
Declension
Derived terms
- s?amere
- s?amestre
Descendants
- Middle English: seme, seem
- English: seam
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