tighten belt
勒紧裤带,勒紧腰带,系好安全带,勒紧皮带
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- : any encircling or transverse band, strip, or stripe.
- : an elongated region having distinctive properties or characteristics: a belt of cotton plantations.
- : Machinery. an endless flexible band passing about two or more pulleys, used to transmit motion from one pulley to the other or others or to convey materials and objects.
- : Military. a cloth strip with loops or a series of metal links with grips, for holding cartridges fed into an automatic gun.a band of leather or webbing, worn around the waist and used as a support for weapons, ammunition, etc.
- : a series of armor plates forming part of the hull of a warship.
- : a broad, flexible strip of rubber, canvas, wood, etc., moved along the surface of a fresh concrete pavement to put a finish on it after it has been floated.
- : a road, railroad, or the like, encircling an urban center to handle peripheral traffic.
- : Slang. a hard blow or hit.
- : Slang. a shot of liquor, especially as swallowed in one gulp.
- : Automotive. a strip of material used in a type of motor-vehicle tire , where it is placed between the carcass and the tread for reinforcement.
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- : to gird or furnish with a belt.
- : to surround or mark as if with a belt or band: Garbage cans were belted with orange paint.
- : to fasten on by means of a belt.
- : to beat with or as if with a belt, strap, etc.
- : Slang. to hit very hard, far, etc.: You were lucky he didn't belt you in the mouth when you said that. He belted a triple to right field.
- : Informal. to sing loudly and energetically: She can belt out a number with the best of them.
- : Slang. to drink quickly, especially in one gulp: He belted a few and went back out into the cold.
Phrases
- belt down
- belt out
- below the belt
- bible belt
- sun belt
- tighten one's belt
- under one's belt
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
He followed through, seizing the belt and casting Woodley into his current descent.
At the Street Church program, he would quietly give out sandwiches and once noticed a man who would “wear out his belts and shoes a lot,” Mooneyham said.
Avdija, who missed more time than Hachimura and has just three games under his belt after getting out of the league protocols, scored 13 points and shot well in each of his past two games, pulling in seven rebounds Tuesday and four Wednesday.
Jim is one of the best pilots I know—calm and extremely skilled, with thousands of hours of mountain flying under his belt.
Retention is going to be a big focus of ours this year now that we have a solid business under our belts.
They want to change bad behaviors—tobacco, alcohol, using a seat belt, anything.
Now they are a notch on a belt, and the savior can feel good about themselves.
Det. 2: No, not your belt . . . . Remember being out in the sunroom, the room that sits out to the back of the house?
Not long after, a 10-year-old girl wearing a suicide belt was arrested.
He would laboriously make his way from desk to loo, belt down a few, then return.
His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.
He reached down inside my shirt, with a none too gentle hand, and relieved me of the belt that held the money.
Just smiled, a sardonic sort of grimace, and unbuckled his belt and handed it over without a word.
He put his hand to his belt, screwed up his mug, and said he felt plumb et up inside.
A millionaire might offer more for a life belt as a souvenir than a drowning man could pay for it to save his life.