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belted | null |

As a verb belted

is (belt).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

belted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (belt)

  • 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

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----