Cinturón in english
pronunciation: belt part of speech: noun
cinturón = belt ; belt ; girdle ; obi.
Example: The only modification made was the replacement of the light-weight belt or roller on the machine wire with the dandy roll, first used in 1825.Example: While Singapore enterprises are active in China's thriving eastern and coastal belt, the western region remains almost virgin territory to them.Example: Elizabethan men would sometimes wear girdles, the equivalent of the female corset, to obtain the wasp-waisted look!.Example: Although there is some indication that the manner of wearing an obi indicated social rank, this had little to do karate and more with social traditions.more:
» abrochar el cinturón de seguridad = fasten + Posesivo + seat belt ; do + Posesivo + seat belt up .
Example: Unmindful of the epic moves that made it what it is today, Elwood Bibeau fastened his seat belt as his plane approached the Wexler airport. Example: He smiled back turned to face the steering wheel and did his seat belt up, I did the same.» abrocharse el cinturón = buckle up .
Example: Children who are not buckled up are three times more likely to suffer a significant injury in a crash than children who are buckled up.» ajustarse el cinturón = tighten + Posesivo + belt ; gird (up) + Posesivo + loins .
Example: For starters, there isn't much money to find -- the state has a $100 million shortfall, and Guinn has ordered agencies to tighten their belts. Example: He advised us to gird up our loins and set about making Pakistan worthy of its name.» ajuste del cinturón = belt-tightening .
Example: Discount retailers have started to feel the pinch from belt-tightening consumers as sales at US stores have fallen for the first time.» apretarse el cinturón = tighten + Posesivo + belt ; gird (up) + Posesivo + loins ; scrimp and save (on) .
Example: For starters, there isn't much money to find -- the state has a $100 million shortfall, and Guinn has ordered agencies to tighten their belts. Example: He advised us to gird up our loins and set about making Pakistan worthy of its name. Example: My migrant parents had made sacrifices, scrimped and saved and sent me to an expensive private school so that I would not be exposed to the daily degradations they endured.» cinturón de asteroides, el = asteroid belt, the .
Example: Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres.» cinturón de castidad = chastity belt .
Example: Chastity belts were once the scourge of women -- locked into mechanical devices to allow their husbands or fathers to feel secure of their virtue.» Cinturón de las Heladas, el = Frost Belt, the [Franja de los Estados Unidos que comprende los estados situados en la zona norte del país, donde hace más frío en relación con la parte sur o the Sun Belt] .
Example: The Frost Belt was for many years the center of American economic activity, and the most populous part of the United States.» Cinturón del Sol, el = Sun Belt, the [Franja de los Estados Unidos que comprende los estados situados al sur y suroeste del país, donde hace más calor en relación con la parte norte o the Frost Belt] .
Example: In this way, for a generation or more, the Sun Belt thrived like no other region in America.» cinturón de seguridad = seat belt ; safety belt .
Example: Unmindful of the epic moves that made it what it is today, Elwood Bibeau fastened his seat belt as his plane approached the Wexler airport. Example: More than 90 percent of all motorists believe safety belts are a good idea, but less than 14 percent actually use them.» cinturón verde = greenbelt [También escrito separada green belt] .
Example: The greenbelt policy is to protect open land around larger urban centres from urban sprawl, and maintain the area for forestry and agriculture as well as to provide habitat to wildlife.» llevar puesto el cinturón de seguridad = wear + a seat belt .
Example: Wearing plain clothes and standing on a street corner, the trooper radioed fellow troopers parked nearby who pulled over drivers not wearing a seat belt.» ponerse el cinturón = buckle up .
Example: Children who are not buckled up are three times more likely to suffer a significant injury in a crash than children who are buckled up.