seat belt
seat belt
Definition
seat belt
noun
- a device consisting of an anchored strap or straps that buckle across the hips to hold a seated passenger safely in place as during a collision
- such a device combined with a shoulder harness, as in an automobile
seat belt
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- wear: Many were using mobile phones, not wearing seat belts, or speeding.
- fit: How do I fit seat belts to our old minibus or landrover to make it legal?
- use: Doctors can also exempt a person from the requirement to use a seat belt on medical grounds.
- introduce: In 2001, Scania introduced red seat belts as an option.
- have: All cars have rear seat belts in countries where they are a legal requirement.
Preposition: on
- ground: Doctors can also exempt a person from the requirement to use a seat belt on medical grounds.
Adjective modifier
- diagonal: A four-point wheelchair restraint system is installed with a personal lap and diagonal seat belt for the wheelchair user.
- 3-point: There are three 3-point seat belts in the rear.
- rear: All cars have rear seat belts in countries where they are a legal requirement.
- compulsory: These advertisements prepared the ground for compulsory seat belt wearing in the front of the car.
- adult: The government says that surveys show three quarters of children are wearing adult seat belts before they are tall enough to do so safely.
Modifies a noun
- buckle: The adult seat belt buckle should not rest on the child seat frame.
- law: If the car was genuinely built before the seat belt laws, you are exempt from wearing them.
- legislation: In the 1980s compulsory seat belt legislation was introduced with tremendous claims for the number of lives which would be saved.
- warning: In 1974 seat belt warning lights and hazard warning lights were introduced.
- sign: At least two of the three fatalities involved passengers who were not wearing their seat belts while the seat belt sign was illuminated.
- offense: Traffic OCU was not able to mount any targeted enforcement activities during Safer Streets in relation to speed or seat belt offenses.
Noun used with modifier
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