Kelter vs Belter - What's the difference?
kelter | belter |
meaning order or balance
* {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, title=Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Fiscal''--Something has been out of kelter at Washington these two years with regard to the rigid application of appropriations, at least in the Indian Department. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1867, author=William Henry Smyth, title=The Sailor's Word-Book, chapter=, edition=
, passage=--All over'', resemblance to a particular object, as a ship in bad kelter : "she's a privateer ''all over ." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Alexander Irvine, title=From the Bottom Up, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It was intimated to me that such "frivolousness" was out of kelter with the profession of a Christian. }}
(British, informal) Anything that is particularly good of its class.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=January 22
, author=Ian Hughes
, title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan
, work=BBC
(British, informal) A very good-looking person.
As nouns the difference between kelter and belter
is that kelter is meaning order or balance while belter is (science fiction) an inhabitant of an asteroid belt, especially that between mars and jupiter.kelter
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(en noun)citation, page= , passage=When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride.}}