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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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slice
English
Etymology
From Middle English slice, esclice, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjan?, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan? (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German sl?zan (“to tear”), Old English sl?tan (“to split up”). More at slite, slit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?s/
- Rhymes: -a?s
Noun
slice (plural slices)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- A piece of pizza.
- 2010, Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- 2010, Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
- (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
slice (third-person singular simple present slices, present participle slicing, simple past and past participle sliced)
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
slice (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.
Further reading
- slice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- -sicle, Celis, ILECs, Leics, Sicel, ceils, ciels, clies, sicle
French
Pronunciation
Verb
slice
- first-person singular present indicative of slicer
- third-person singular present indicative of slicer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
- second-person singular imperative of slicer
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sleggio, from *sleg, from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). See also Ancient Greek ?????? (lakíz?, “to tear apart”).
Noun
slice m (nominative plural slici)
- shell
Inflection
Derived terms
- slicén
Descendants
- Irish: slige
- Manx: shlig
- Scottish Gaelic: slige
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