n. 带子, 地带

[医] 带, 腰带, 束带, 地带, 区

[经] 带

Belt \Belt\ (b[e^]lt), n. [AS. belt; akin to Icel. belti, Sw.
b["a]lte, Dan. b[ae]lte, OHG. balz, L. balteus, Ir. & Gael.
balt border, belt.]
1. That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle;
as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

The shining belt with gold inlaid. --Dryden.

2. That which restrains or confines as a girdle.

He cannot buckle his distempered cause
Within the belt of rule. --Shak.

3. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or
crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of
trees; a belt of sand.

4. (Arch.) Same as {Band}, n., 2. A very broad band is more
properly termed a belt.

5. (Astron.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface
of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the
nature of clouds.

6. (Geog.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and
the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

7. (Her.) A token or badge of knightly rank.

8. (Mech.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance,
passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from
one to the other.

Note: [See Illust. of {Pulley}.]

9. (Nat. Hist.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any
organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.

{Belt lacing}, thongs used for lacing together the ends of
machine belting.


Belt \Belt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Belted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Belting}.]
To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to
surround.

A coarse black robe belted round the waist. --C. Reade.

They belt him round with hearts undaunted.
--Wordsworth.

2. To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.