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Definition of Beltlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a belt around something.
Definition of Beltlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a belt (article of clothing). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beltlike
Literary usage of Beltlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Physical Geography: identity and economics in the urban setting by William Morris Davis (1903)
"The several belts recall the beltlike arrangement of soils described in the case
of a broad coastal plain, but here the middle belt forms an upland that ..."
2. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"The beltlike archipelago of islands along the northeast coast simply represents
the emerged portions of the shelf. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"They are probably clouds, assuming the beltlike form by the rapidity of his
rotation, only Oh 55m, coupled with Ы- giant size, 274000 miles in circumference ..."
4. Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1898)
"... and which move over the surface of the earth; and another which consists of
a broad, beltlike shaft in the equatorial regions, which in a way girdles ..."
5. Physical Laboratory Manual: For Use in Schools and Colleges by Horatio Nelson Chute (1903)
"... aluminium wheel mounted upon cone bearings and carrying upon its rim a long
beltlike loop of tissue paper ribbon, upon which the record is to be made. ..."
6. Glaciation of the Uinta Mountains by Wallace Walter Atwood (1903)
"The real beltlike form of the terminal moraine may be best made out from outlook
points on the crest of the range. From these points lateral and medial ..."
7. Weather Forecasting in the United States by United States Weather Bureau, Alfred Judson Henry, Edward Hall Bowie, Henry Joseph Cox, Harry Crawford Frankenfield (1916)
"Certain beltlike regions of relatively high barometric pressure encircle the
earth along the borders between trade winds and the west winds of ..."
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