belt – English noun declension

English noun forms of belt

Noun: belt
Singularbelt
Pluralbelts

Sample Sentences

  • As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.
  • Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather. [1987 August 15, Robert Benitez, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 14:]
  • Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
  • The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
  • a belt of trees; a belt of sand
  • the heavyweight belt
  • The battleship was protected by a twelve-inch belt just above the waterline.
  • After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of bar fights.
  • Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
  • That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt.
  • Both auditionees had great ranges but Diamond had the strong belt we really need for the finale.
  • As previously mentioned, there was unexpected behavior in laryngeal lowering for belt in several singers and unchanged laryngeal height for two, as well as stable opening or widening of the pharyngeal walls, which must be investigated further. [1999, Jeannette Lovetri, Susan Lesh, Peak Woo, “Preliminary Study on the Ability of Trained Singers to Control the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Laryngeal Musculature”, in Journal of Voice, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, page 226:]
  • In Clara's furious rant in Act II, Allsun broke out of her soprano into a belt, which made perfect sense in the moment. [2018, Norman Spivey, Mary Saunder Barton, Cross-Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act, Plural Publishing, →ISBN, page 57:]
  • This belt of deformed platform sediments parallels the suture running east-to-west across the north of the region, which was left when the ocean basin that originally separated the two ancient continents on either side of it was consumed by subduction.
  • Most foreland fold and thrust belts are linear or arcuate belts of folds and thrust faults that form a marginal part of an orogenic belt between an undeformed craton and a more intensely deformed inner zone. [1980, B. C. Burchfiel, “Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts—Review”, in AAPG Bulletin, volume 64, number 5, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, →DOI, page 684:]

Etymology

From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, 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”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk belte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”), Faroese and Icelandic belti (“belt”). See: Middle English Nouns 'belt', Old English Nouns 'belt', Latin Nouns 'balteus', Dutch Nouns 'belt', German Nouns 'Balz', Danish Nouns 'bælte', Swedish Nouns 'bälte'.