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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:

(clothing) 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.

Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.

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

The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.

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

a belt of trees; a belt of sand

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

the heavyweight belt

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

(astronomy) A collection of small 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.

The battleship was protected by a twelve-inch belt just above the waterline.

(military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.

After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of bar fights.

A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.

Care to join me in a belt of scotch?

(usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).

That umpire called that pitch a strike at the 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.

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:

(music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.

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:

fold and thrust belt
fold and thrust belt

(geography, geology) A mostly-continuous, often curvilinear structure expressed on the surface or in the subsurface of a terrestrial planet or other solid planemo, such as a mountain belt, a fold and thrust belt, or an ore belt.

→ Afrikaans: belt

→ Assamese: বেল্ট (belto)

→ Bengali: বেল্ট (belṭo)

→ Dutch: belt

→ Hindi: बेल्ट (belṭ)

→ Irish: beilt

→ Japanese: ベルト (beruto)

→ Odia: ବେଲ୍ଟ୍ (belṭ)

→ Urdu: بیلٹ (belṭ)

→ Welsh: belt

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band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power

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”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).


belt

The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.

Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.

The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.

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

The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment.

He belted out the national anthem.

Céline Dion belted her iconic song "My Heart Will Go On" in a show-stopping performance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21. The legendary singer gave the throwback performance in honor of the 20th anniversary of the hit song from the Titanic soundtrack.

2017 May 22, Mallory Carra, “Celine Dion Is Making Everyone Cry”, in Bustle, BDG Media, retrieved 2022-01-01:

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

He belted down a shot of whisky.

(transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.

The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.

Bobby belting the ball

1996, “Three Lions”, performed by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner:

(transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.

He belted that pitch over the grandstand.

(transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.

He was really belting along.

en-verb

belt (third-person singular simple present belts, present participle belting, simple past and past participle belted)

belts (present singular third-person)
belting (participle present)
belted (participle past)
belted (past)