different between halo vs belt

English

Etymology

From Latin hal?s, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon; ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor with its surrounding threshold; disk of a shield”); itself of unknown origin, see ????? and ??????. Used in English since 1563, sense of light around someone’s head since 1646.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?he?l??/
• (US) enPR: h??l?, IPA^(key): /?he?lo?/
• Rhymes: -e?l??

Noun

halo (plural halos or haloes)

1. A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
2. (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
3. Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
4. (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
5. The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
6. (advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
   • 2016, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, ?Health and Medicine Division, ?Food and Nutrition Board, Food Literacy: How Do Communications and Marketing Impact Consumer Knowledge, Skills, and Behavior? (page 51)

     In both cases, they found that […] there was a halo effect (e.g., when a "low cholesterol" claim was made, consumers perceived other nutrients, such as fat, also to be at low levels when they were actually high). Andrews reported that these misleading halos were reduced only when the claims were accompanied by an evaluative disclosure […]

7. (art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
8. (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
9. (motor racing) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of a open cockpit racecar.
10. (automotive) Short for halo headlight.

Synonyms

• (luminous disc around head of saints in paintings): aureole, nimbus

Derived terms

• halo effect
• halo nucleus
• neutron halo
• nuclear halo
• proton halo

Translations

Verb

halo (third-person singular simple present haloes, present participle haloing, simple past and past participle haloed)

1. (transitive) To encircle with a halo.

   Synonym: inaureole

Related terms

• halation

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “halo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• hola

Bikol Central

Verb

halo (hálo)

1. to hush, to make or become quiet

Noun

halo (hàlo)

1. a pestle

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sal? (“filth, dirt”)

Noun

halo m

1. saliva

References

• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, pages 319
• Revue celtique. (1888). France: F. Vieweg., p 374

Catalan

Verb

halo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of halar

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• hawo

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ha?lo

Etymology

For the second noun sense, the monitor lizard's timidity likened to cowardice.

Noun

halo

1. a monitor lizard
2. (historical) a cowardly tattooed man

Verb

halo

1. to mingle

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??alo]
• Hyphenation: ha?lo

Etymology 1

From Latin halos.

Noun

halo n

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

halo

1. vocative singular of hala

Further reading

• halo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• halo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Medieval Latin, from Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon”).

Noun

halo c (definite singular haloen, indefinite plural haloer, definite plural haloerne)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon, ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor; disk of a shield”), itself of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.lo?/

Noun

halo m (plural halo's, diminutive halootje n)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon).
2. Similar visual effect resulting from undesirable, roughly circular spots on an imperfectly developed photograph.

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Anagrams

• hola

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall, German Halle, French halle, Polish hala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?halo/
• Hyphenation: ha?lo
• Rhymes: -alo

Noun

halo (accusative singular halon, plural haloj, accusative plural halojn)

1. hall, very large room

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?lo/, [?h?lo?]
• Rhymes: -?lo
• Syllabification: ha?lo

Etymology 1

Verb

halo

1. Indicative present connegative form of halkoa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of halkoa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of halkoa.

Etymology 2

From English halo, from Latin hal?s, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s).

Noun

halo

1. halo

Declension

Derived terms

• haloilmiö

Anagrams

• Alho, alho, laho

French

Etymology

From Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon, ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor; disk of a shield”), itself of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.lo/

Noun

halo m (plural halos)

1. Halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. Similar visual effect resulting from undesirable, roughly circular spots on an imperfectly developed photograph.

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “halo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• hola, holà

Galician

Verb

halo

1. first-person singular present indicative of halar

Ido

Noun

halo (plural hali)

1. hall, very large room

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch hallo. Compare Malay helo.

Interjection

halo

1. hello

Latin

Etymology

Possibly a denominative verb from Proto-Indo-European *h?enh?-s-lo- (with spurious h), from *h?enh?- (“to breathe”), whence animus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ha?.lo?/, [?hä???o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.lo/, [???l?]

Verb

h?l? (present infinitive h?l?re, perfect active h?l?v?, supine h?l?tum); first conjugation

1. breathe
2. emit, exhale, release (gas or fragrance)
3. be fragrant
   • P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid, Book I, ll. 416 ff.

     Ipsa Paphum sublimis abit sedesque revisit
     Laeta suas ubi templum illi centumque Sabaeo???
     Ture calent arae sertisque recentibus halant

     [Venus] goes flying back to Paphos and sees happily again her seat
     Where there is a temple to her and a hundred altars
     That warmly glow with Sheban incense and are perfumed by fresh wreaths.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• adh?l?
• anh?lo
• exh?l?
• inh?l?
• redh?l?

Synonyms

• sp?r?, feo

Descendants

• Old French: haler
  • French: haleter

References

• halo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• halo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• halo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

halo m (definite singular haloen, indefinite plural haloer, definite plural haloene)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

halo m (definite singular haloen, indefinite plural haloar, definite plural haloane)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.l?/

Etymology 1

From English hallo.

Interjection

halo

1. (when answering the telephone) hello

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s).

Noun

halo n

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. buzz, hype

Declension

Indeclinable.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

halo

1. vocative singular of hala

Further reading

• halo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Medieval Latin, from Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon”).

Noun

halo m (plural halos)

1. (astronomy) halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

   Synonym: auréola

2. (religion, iconography) halo (luminous disc around the heads of saints)

   Synonyms: auréola, nimbo

Romanian

Etymology

From French halo.

Noun

halo n (plural halouri)

1. halo

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Noun

halo m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (astronomy) halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Etymology 2

From English hallo.

Interjection

halo (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (when answering the telephone) hello

Synonyms

• zdravo
• ?ao

Spanish

Etymology

Medieval Latin, from Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon”).

Noun

halo m (plural halos)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)
2. halo (nimbus around the head of a holy figure)

Verb

halo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of halar.

Swedish

Etymology

Medieval Latin, from Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ???? (hál?s, “disk of the sun or moon”). Related to English and Danish halo.

Noun

halo c (definite singular halon, indefinite plural halor / haloer, definite plural halorna / haloerna)

1. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

Declension

Tagalog

Noun

halò

1. mixture
2. mix (matter added to a mixture)

Noun

halo

1. pestle

Anagrams

• laho

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)

1. 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.

2. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.

3. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.

4. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

5. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.

6. (astronomy) A collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
7. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
8. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.

9. A quick drink of liquor.

10. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
11. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.

12. (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon
13. (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)

1. (transitive) To encircle.

2. (transitive) To fasten a belt on.

3. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
4. (transitive) To hit with a belt.

5. (transitive, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.

6. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.

7. (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something.
8. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.

9. (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)

1. 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)

1. (archaic) A heap, hill
2. 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)

1. (Suriname) (clothing) A belt.

Synonyms

• riem, broeksriem, gordel

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

belt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of bellen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of bellen

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (balad).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?lt/

Noun

belt f (plural bliet)

1. 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)

1. A belt.

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: belt
  • English: belt (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: belt