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Belt vs Seam - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between belt and seam

is that belt is a band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing while seam is a folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.Wp

As verbs the difference between belt and seam

is that belt is to encircle while seam is to put together with a seam.

As a proper noun Belt

is {{surname}.

belt

English

(wikipedia belt)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
  • As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.
  • A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
  • Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.
  • A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
  • The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.
  • Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
  • a belt''' of trees; a '''belt of sand
  • (astronomy) A collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
  • (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
  • A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
  • After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of barfighting.
  • A quick drink of liquor.
  • Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
  • (usually, capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt'', ''Bible Belt'', ''Black Belt'', ''Green Belt ).
  • (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
  • That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt .
  • (weapons) device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon
  • Synonyms

    * (band worn around waist) girdle, waistband, sash, strap * (band used as safety restraint) restraint, safety belt, seat belt * (powerful blow) blow, punch, sock, wallop

    Derived terms

    * asteroid belt * below the belt * belted (adjective) * belt track * Bible Belt * black belt * chastity belt * conveyor belt * fan belt * kidney belt * Kuiper belt * radiation belt * Rust Belt * safety belt * seat belt * tighten one's belt * under one's belt * utility belt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To encircle.
  • The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
  • To fasten a belt.
  • Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.
    The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.
  • To hit with a belt.
  • The child was misbehaving so it was belted as punishment.
  • and intransitive To scream or sing in a loud manner.
  • He belted out the national anthem.
  • To drink quickly, often in gulps.
  • He belted down a shot of whisky.
  • (slang) To hit someone or something.
  • The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.
  • (baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
  • He belted that pitch over the grandstand.
  • To move very fast
  • He was really belting along.

    Synonyms

    * (to encircle) circle, girdle, surround * (to fasten a belt) buckle, fasten, strap * (to hit with a belt) strap, whip * (to drink quickly) gulp, pound, slurp * (to hit someone or something) bash, clobber, smack, wallop * (to move quickly) book, speed, whiz, zoom

    Derived terms

    * belted l * belt out * belt up * beltloop

    seam

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sewing) A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
  • *
  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  • A suture.
  • A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
  • (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
  • An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
  • An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
  • * 1952 , , Building in England , p. 175.
  • As white glass was 6s. the 'seam', containing 24 'weys' (pise, or pondera) of 5 lb., and 2½ lb. was reckoned sufficient to make one foot of glazing, the cost of glass would be 1½d. leaving 2½d. for labour.
  • (construction) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
  • Seams can be made or sealed in a variety of ways, including adhesive bonding, hot-air welding, solvent welding, using adhesive tapes, sealant, etc.
  • A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
  • (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • Precepts should be so finely wrought togetherthat no coarse seam may discover where they join.
    Derived terms
    * seamster * seamstress

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put together with a seam.
  • To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
  • To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Seamed o'er with wounds which his own sabre gave.
  • To crack open along a seam.
  • * L. Wallace
  • Later their lips began to parch and seam .
  • (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
  • (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
  • Quotations
    * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor : *: Thus, seamed with many scars, / Bursting these prison bars, / Up to its native stars / My soul ascended!

    Etymology 2

    See saim.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) grease; tallow; lard
  • (Shakespeare)
    (Dryden)

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