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Meanings of life belt in English
Catalan
salvavides 
A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent drowning.
Portuguese
cinto Catalan
cinturó salvavides Belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt.
Usage of life belt in English
1
A life belt is hurled from a great height, falls slowly, slowly.
2
Dr. Malone felt like a drowning sailor being thrown a life belt.
3
He was supported by a life belt carelessly strapped around him.
4
I'm pretty good at it, and we'll have a life belt.
5
So picking up the two cats and a life belt, she hurried on deck.
6
By the time Barclay sees you've got a life belt it'll be too late.
7
Someone managed to throw her a life belt but it failed to reach her.
8
She lost the life belt when she went overboard and didn't expect to reach shore.
9
Larson writes about one passenger, Dwight Harris, who brought his own custom made life belt.
10
I see a fellow just as you described, only he's not wearing a life belt.
11
The life belt was cumbersome and very little help.
12
There's the life belt, on top of the icebox.
13
But we had to have a life belt.
14
In another five minutes I knew it was all over, as far as the life belt was concerned.
15
Still dazed, I stumbled through the nearest sea door and went toward my cabin for my life belt.
16
You had on a life belt.