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Belt can be a noun or a verb.
belt used as a noun:
- 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.
"As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down." - A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
"Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride." - A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
"The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels." - A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
"After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of barfighting." - A quick drink of liquor.
"Care to join me in a belt of scotch?" - A geographical region known for a particular product or feature (Corn Belt, Bible Belt).
- (baseball) The lower boundary of the strike zone.
"That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
belt used as a verb:
- To encircle.
"The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions." - To fasten a belt.
"Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition." - To hit with a belt.
"The child was remanded to state custody when the lacerations on her back where her parents had belted her in punishment were revealed." - and intransitive To scream or sing in a loud manner.
"He belted out the national anthem." - To drink quickly, often in gulps.
"He belted down a shot of whisky." - To hit someone or something.
"The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game." - To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
"He belted that pitch over the grandstand." - To move very fast
"He was really belting along."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is belt?
- Noun usage: As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.
- Noun usage: Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
- Noun usage: The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
- Noun usage: After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of barfighting.
- Noun usage: Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
- Noun usage: That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt.
- Verb usage: The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
- Verb usage: Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.
- Verb usage: The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
- Verb usage: The child was remanded to state custody when the lacerations on her back where her parents had belted her in punishment were revealed.
- Verb usage: He belted out the national anthem.
- Verb usage: He belted down a shot of whisky.
- Verb usage: The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
- Verb usage: He belted that pitch over the grandstand.
- Verb usage: He was really belting along.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of belt are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of belt, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
