Belt

Definition

belt /belt/ n ၁။ ခါးပတ္။ He did up/fastened/tightened his belt. ❍ a belt buckle. ❍ BOXING ၂။ စက္ခါးပတ္ႀကိဳး။ See also CONVEYOR BELT, FAN BELT ၃။ ရပ္ဝန္း။ a country's cotton/corn/industrial belt ❍ I live in the commuter/stockbroker belt. ❍ a belt of rain moving across the country. See also GREEN BELT ၄။ ( sl ) လက္သံေျပာင္ေသာ ႐ိုက္ခ်က္။ She gave the ball a terrific belt. v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (up) ခါးပတ္ ပတ္သည္။ Your coat looks better belted (up). (ခ) ခါးပတ္တြင္ခ်ိတ္သည္။ The officer belted his sword on. ၂။ ( sl ) လက္သံ ေျပာင္ေျပာင္ ေဆာ္သည္။ If you don't shut up, I'll belt you (one). ၃။ ( sl esp Brit ) တစ္ဟုန္ထိုးသြားသည္။ A car came belting along (the road). ❍ He went belting up the motorway at 90 mph. ❏ below the belt [ IDM ] မတရားသျဖင့္။ He know's I'm a bit deaf so his remarks about ‘not paying attention’ were distinctly below the belt. ❏ belt and braces [ IDM ] ( infml ) လုပ္ငန္း စသည္ ေအာင္ျမင္ေရးအတြက္ နည္းလမ္း အဖံုဖံုသံုးျခင္း။ a belt-and -braces policy. ❏ belt sth out [ PHRV ] ( sl ) က်ယ္ေလာင္စြာ ဆိုသည္၊ တီးသည္၊ ဖြင့္သည္။ a radio belting out pop music ❍ She can really belt out a tune. ❏ belt up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( infml ) ထိုင္ခံုခါးပတ္ ပတ္သည္။ ၂။ ( Brit sl ) ၿငိမ္စမ္း။ ၿငိမ္ၿငိမ္ေန။ For goodness sake, belt up, will you? ❏ under one's belt [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပိုင္ထားသည္။ ရရိွ ထားသည္။ She already has good academic qualifications under her belt. See also LIFEBELT

Examples

1. A leather/plastic belt
2. Put on/fasten a belt
3. He has a brown belt in karate.
4. The corn belt
5. The city’s commuter belt
6. A belt of trees
7. An asteroid belt