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PRONUNCIATION OF BELLY-LIKE

belly-like  [ˈbɛlɪˌlaɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BELLY-LIKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Belly-Like is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BELLY-LIKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of belly-like in the English dictionary

The definition of belly-like in the dictionary is resembling a belly.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BELLY-LIKE


berrylike
ˈbɛrɪˌlaɪk
cherry-like
ˈtʃerɪˌlaɪk
claylike
ˈkleɪˌlaɪk
eyelike
ˈaɪˌlaɪk
factory-like
ˈfæktərɪˌlaɪk
fairy-like
ˈfeərɪˌlaɪk
Gypsy-like
ˈdʒɪpsɪˌlaɪk
honey-like
ˈhʌnɪˌlaɪk
ivory-like
ˈaɪvərɪˌlaɪk
ivy-like
ˈaɪvɪˌlaɪk
jelly-like
ˈdʒelɪˌlaɪk
ladylike
ˈleɪdɪˌlaɪk
lily-like
ˈlɪlɪˌlaɪk
palsylike
ˈpɔːlzɪˌlaɪk
raylike
ˈreɪˌlaɪk
ruby-like
ˈruːbɪˌlaɪk
sighlike
ˈsaɪˌlaɪk
skylike
ˈskaɪˌlaɪk
tapestry-like
ˈtæpɪstrɪˌlaɪk
toylike
ˈtɔɪˌlaɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BELLY-LIKE

bells of Ireland
bellwether
bellwort
belly
belly dance
belly dancer
belly flop
belly flopped
belly flopping
belly landing
belly laugh
belly of pork
belly tank
belly-up
bellyache
bellyacher
bellyaching
bellyband
bellybutton
bellyful

WORDS THAT END LIKE BELLY-LIKE

bird-like
cell-like
cloth-like
daughter-like
dislike
garden-like
guitar-like
human-like
jewel-like
like-for-like
metal-like
oil-like
scale-like
shell-like
soul-like
stone-like
summer-like
tail-like
virus-like
water-like
woman-like

Synonyms and antonyms of belly-like in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «belly-like» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BELLY-LIKE

Find out the translation of belly-like to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of belly-like from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «belly-like» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

肚状
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

- vientre como
570 millions of speakers

English

belly-like
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पेट की तरह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مثل البطن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

живот , как
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

barriga -como
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উদর মত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ventre - comme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seperti perut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bauch - wie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

腹のような
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

배 와 같은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Weteng kaya
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bụng như
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொப்பை போன்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोट-सारखी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

göbek benzeri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pancia -come
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

brzuch -jak
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

живіт , як
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

- burta ca
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοιλιά - όπως
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maag -agtige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

belly -liknande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

buk -lignende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of belly-like

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BELLY-LIKE»

The term «belly-like» is normally little used and occupies the 123.467 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BELLY-LIKE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «belly-like» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «belly-like» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about belly-like

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BELLY-LIKE»

Discover the use of belly-like in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to belly-like and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the ...
Everything begins in the rounded belly. Like a sentence generated from its own internal logic, the world of meaning is born out of a maternal beginning, what Brossard calls "the first clause, the instrument of reproduction." But if, symbolically  ...
Lynne Huffer, 1998
2
The principles of midwifery: including the diseases of women ...
belly like colic, but is more constant and continued, and ia accompanied with a considerable degree of fever, costiveness, and tenderness in the belly. If this disease do not prove speedily fatal, and, if, on the other hand, it be not perfectly ...
John Burns, 1837
3
The Cattle Car: Including, Letter to a Little Girl
Not a belly like the belly of people who have no guts: that is, whose bellies have nothing in them but lots of crap which swells and rots, and which they talk about all the time. The botanist had the belly of a man of science and of a man of the ...
Georges Hyvernaud, 1997
4
A Natural and Medicinal History of Worms: Bred in the Bodies ...
her Belly like a Fish : And these following Words of Sfigelius seem to signify, that it was a Borboryg- mos, or a Bladder filled with Water and Wind, and then Jhaked hard, for this Sound is nothing like the Noise of Fishes swimming. Yet this ...
Daniel Le Clerc, 1721
5
The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
“Are you invited to the belling?” belly like a rain barrel Used to describe a paunchy person, as in “He's got a belly like a rain barrel.” belly rub To dance intimately, bodies close together. “People can't dance like that nowadays. They just get up ...
Robert Hendrickson, 2000
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Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture ...
Both clauses could be sentences by themselves—snwtt rn.s “its name is snwtt” and rd.s œr õt.s mj qædwt “it grows on its belly like creepers”—but here they are relative clauses by virtue of the context they are used in.The second example has  ...
James P. Allen, 2014
7
Sexual Enlightenment: How to Create Lasting Fulfillment in ...
Take in a deep breath, expanding the belly like a big balloon. On exhalation send the breath down and out the buttocks into the hand. Again take in a deep breath, breathing into the belly, expanding the belly like a big balloon. On exhalation ...
Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver, 2013
8
Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: ...
About the tenth of February and at some other times before, she felt, as she thought, some great thing roll up and down in her belly, like a calf. It pricked as if the head and nose thereof had been full of nails, as she thought, with which, being ...
Philip C. Almond, 2004
9
An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines
The body itself is like the earth, the bones like mountains, the brain like mines, the belly like the sea, the intestine like rivers, the nerves like brooks, the flesh like dust and mud. The hair on the body is like plants, the places where hair grows like ...
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 1993
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The diaphragm descends and actively pushes the belly and the abdominal hand back. Balance the duration of the exhalation and inhalation. Feel the forces and the movement inside the belly, like the internal tension of a balloon as it inflates ...

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BELLY-LIKE»

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I Remember Mama: Mother's work, rather than words, showed her love
... would have risen far above the rim of the blue marbled pan, and beneath it lay a smooth, white, belly-like mound, begging to be poked. «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Apr 15»

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