0 a strip of leather or material worn around the waist to support clothes or for decoration:
1 a flat strip of material in a machine that moves along continuously to keep another part turning, or to keep objects on it moving along:
2 an area, usually just outside a city, where a particular group of people live, such as the commuter belt and the stockbroker belt, or an area that is known for a particular characteristic, such as the cotton belt (= an area where cotton is grown)
a belt on the jaw
4 (especially of a vehicle) to travel with great speed:
5 to hit someone or something hard, especially with violence:
He belted him in the face.
A favoured explanation for the origin of fold and thrust belts is the development of zones of flat slab subduction.
Varying relative sea-level mainly controlled the broad types of facies belts that developed.
Rivers from the moraine belts flow from the glaciers and have created complex outwash plains (sandur) combining detritic cones in different stages of development.
Four cometary belts associated with the orbits of the ginat planets : a new view of the outer solar system's structure emerges from numerical simulations.
The custodians appear as women, hold the belts, and dance around the post.
Between interventions deemed prima-facie reasonable (mandatory seat belts) and interventions deemed prima-facie unreasonable (a ban on driving) lie the more difficult intermediate cases.
They seem to be familiar with the permanent belts of fly, and the general extent of their spread during and after the rains.
Specimens also occur on the flats between the two belts, frequently of very large size, but less numerous than in the hillier regions.
