Belt
(n.) That which engirdles a person or thing |
Belt
(n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle. |
Belt
(n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt |
Belt
(n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt. |
Belt
(n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds. |
Belt
(n.) A narrow passage or strait |
Belt
(n.) A token or badge of knightly rank. |
Belt
(n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other. |
Belt
(n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ |
Belt
(v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt |
Belt
(v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. |
Double-lock
(v. t.) To lock with two bolts |
Lock
(n.) A tuft of hair |
Lock
(n.) Anything that fastens |
Lock
(n.) A fastening together or interlacing |
Lock
(n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. |
Lock
(n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. |
Lock
(n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another |
Lock
(n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded |
Lock
(n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning. |
Lock
(n.) A grapple in wrestling. |
Lock
(v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock |
Lock
(v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of |
Lock
(v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks |
Lock
(v. t.) To link together |
Lock
(v. t.) To furnish with locks |
Lock
(v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him. |
Lock
(v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing |
Lock-down
(n.) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting |
Lock hospital
() A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. |
Lock step
() A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. |
Lock stitch
() A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch. |
Lock-weir
(n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber. |
knock
belt
rap
whack
whang | the act of hitting vigorously, he gave the table a whack |
| lock | any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured |
airlock
air lock | a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure |
| belt | a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist) |
| belt | endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys |
belt belt ammunition
belted ammunition | ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun |
| belt buckle | the buckle used to fasten a belt |
| cartridge belt | a broad belt with loops or pockets for holding ammunition |
| combination lock | lock that can be opened only by turning dials in a special sequence |
conveyer belt
conveyor belt
conveyer
conveyor
transporter | a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) |
| cylinder lock | a lock in which a cylinder rotates to move a bolt, tumblers are pins, inserting the key lifts and aligns the pins to free the cylinder to rotate |
| driving belt | a belt that carries motion from a motor to the machinery |
| fan belt | a belt driven by the crankshaft that drives a fan that pulls air through the radiator |
garter belt
suspender belt | a wide belt of elastic with straps hanging from it, worn by women to hold up stockings |
| lever lock | a lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move |
life buoy
lifesaver
life belt
life ring | a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material |
| lock | a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed |
| lock ignition lock | a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key |
| lock lock chamber | enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level, used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it |
| lock | a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun |
| lock-gate | a gate that can be locked |
lockring
lock ring
lock washer | washer that prevents a nut from loosening |
| money belt | belt with a concealed section for holding money |
safety belt
life belt safety harness | belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt |
safety bolt
safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
safety catch
safety lock | guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired |
| Sam Browne belt | leather belt supported by a strap over the right shoulder |
sash fastener
sash lock
window lock | a lock attached to the sashes of a double hung window that can fix both in the shut position |
seat belt
seatbelt | a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident |
vapor lock
vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internalombustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor) |
waist pack
belt bag | a small pouch (usually with a zipper) that attaches to a belt and is worn around the waist |
| wheel lock | an obsolete gunlock using flint and a revolving wheel |
lock
curl
ringlet
whorl | a strand or cluster of hair |
| scalp lock | a long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven head |
| black belt | a black sash worn to show expert standards in the martial arts (judo or karate) |
knock
bash
bang smash belt | a vigorous blow, the sudden knock floored him, he took a bash right in his face, he got a bang on the head |
| asteroid belt | the region of interplanetary space between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found |
| belt | an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found, a belt of high pressure |
| Bible Belt | southern and midwestern United States where Protestant fundamentalism is dominant |
| Corn Belt | the midwestern states where corn is grown, Iowa and Illinois are excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock |
| stockbroker belt | a wealthy residential suburb |
| Van Allen belt | a belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth's magnetic field |
borscht circuit
borsht circuit
borscht belt
borsht belt | (informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests, many comedians learned their trade playing the borscht circuit |
Kuiper belt
Edgeworth-Kuiper belt | a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune |
Kuiper belt object
KBO | any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system |
swath
belt | a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) |
| belt maker | a maker of belts |
| black belt | a person who attained the rank of expert in the martial arts (judo or karate) |
| lock-up option | an option to buy the crown jewels offered to a white knight in order to forestall a hostile takeover |
| lock | become rigid or immoveable, The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise |