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Definition: Safety Belt |
Safety BeltNoun1. Belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | Personal protective equipment which protects the wearer against sudden accelerations or decelerations. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A harnesslike device that fits around the waist and chest of a worker, with an attached rope or other mechanism that can be anchored to a fixed point, in order to catch the worker and minimize injury in the event of a fall from a height(2). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A worker's belt attachable to some fixed object to safeguard against falls. b. A protective belt or harness with remote anchorage, worn by a worker, for example, a quarryman, working on a face at height. Since the belt allows a drop of about 6 ft (2 m) a shock absorber is provided c. A belt worn by a derrickman or tripodman to prevent injury due to accidental falls from the top of a derrick d. A belt to which tools are attached to prevent risk of their fallinginto machines, thickeners, etc. (references) |
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Synonyms: Safety BeltSynonyms: life belt (n), safety harness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Refuge | Jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning rod, lightning conductor; safety belt, airbag, seat belt; antilock brakes, antiskid tires, snow tires. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Safety Belt |
| English words defined with "safety belt": Safety buoy, seat belt, submarine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "safety belt": auto-glass worker ♦ CLEANER, WINDOW ♦ DERRICK WORKER, WELL SERVICE, diver assistant, DIVER HELPER, diver tender ♦ general-purpose safety belt, GLASS INSTALLER ♦ lap belt, life-line attendant ♦ windshield installer. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Safety Belt for Susie (1962) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
safety belt | 71 |
child safety belt | 7 |
wheel chair safety belt | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "safety belt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrip sigurimi. (various references) | |
Arabic | حزام الأمان (lifebelt, seat blet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | предпазен ремък (seat belt), предпазен колан (lifebelt, seat belt). (various references) | |
Czech | bezpeènostní pás. (various references) | |
Danish | sikkerhedssele (belt, safety harness, seat belt), sikkerhedsbælte (general-purpose safety belt, safety harness), sele (belt, harness, seat belt, strap, webbing), fangsele (general-purpose safety belt). (various references) | |
Dutch | steungordel (seat belt), veiligheidsgordel voor algemeen gebruik (general-purpose safety belt), veiligheidsgordel (belt, climbing rope, safety harness, seat belt), gordel (belt, camelback, crown, girdle, lug base ring, restraint, restraint system, seat belt, tread rubber, zone), autogordel (seat belt). (various references) | |
Finnish | turvavyö (safety harness, seat belt). (various references) | |
French | ceinture de sécurité (safety harness). (various references) | |
German | Sicherheitsgurt (safety harness, seat belt). (various references) | |
Greek | ζώνη ασφάλειασ (seat belt), ζώνη ασφαλείας (belt, general-purpose safety belt, safety harness, seat belt), ζώνη (area, baldrick, band, belt, cincture, cordon, girdle, ribbed band, ribbing, sash, seat belt, shingles, truss, waistband, zone). (various references) | |
Hungarian | biztonsági öv (seat belt, seat-belt). (various references) | |
Italian | cintura di sicurezza (belt, general-purpose safety belt, lifebelt, safety harness, seat belt). (various references) | |
Manx | cryss sauchys (seat belt). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | afetysay eltbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cinto de segurança (belt, safety harness, seat belt). (various references) | |
Romanian | colac de salvare (life buoy), centurã de siguranţã. (various references) | |
Russian | спасательный пояс (life belt, life preserver, lifebelt, life-belt, water wings), привязной ремень. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sigurnosni pojas. (various references) | |
Spanish | cinturón de seguridad (belt, safety harness, seat belt). (various references) | |
Swedish | säkerhetsbälte (harness, lapstrap, seat belt, seat-belt). (various references) | |
Thai | เข็มขั"นิร ัย. (various references) | |
Turkish | emniyet kemeri (harness, lapbelt, seat belt, shoulder belt). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-l-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: layettes, seatbelt, testable. | |
-3 letters: battles, beastly, befleas, featest, fettles, layette, leftest, stately, stylate, tablets. | |
-4 letters: abeles, ablest, basely, battle, beflea, belays, betels, bettas, blasty, bleats, elates, estate, fables, fealty, featly, feebly, festal, fettle, feyest, fleets, flytes, fyttes, latest, lattes, lysate, lyttae, lyttas, safely, safety, settle, slatey, sleety, stable, stably, steely, stelae, stylet, tables, tablet, teasel, testae. | |
-5 letters: abele, abets, ables, abyes, alefs, bales, baste, bates, batts, batty, beast, beats, beefs, beefy, beets, belay, belts, beset, betas, betel, betta, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blest, blets, bytes, easel, elate, fable, false, fates, fatly, fatty, fease, feast, feats, feels, felts, fetal, fetas, fetes, flabs, flats, flays, fleas, flees, fleet, fleys, flyte, fytte, latte, leafs, leafy, lease, least, leets, lefts, lefty, lyase, lytta, sable, salty, seely, setae, setal, slate, slaty, sleet, stale, state, steal, steel, stela, stele, style, tabes, table, taels, tales, taste, tasty, tates, teals, tease, teats, teels, telae, teles, tesla, testa, testy, tyees, yeast, yetts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 66 65 74 79 42 65 6C 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01100110 01100101 01110100 01111001 00100000 01000010 01100101 01101100 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a f e t y   B e l t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0066 0065 0074 0079 0042 0065 006C 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536772718691236717886 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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