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Definition: Belong To |
Belong ToVerb1. Be a part or adjunct; "the uniform looks like it belonged to a museum collection". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Class | Verb: be included in; come under, fall under, range under; belong to, pertain to; range with; merge in. |
Component | Verb: enter into, enter into the composition of; be a component; n; be part of, form part of; ; merge in, be merged in; be implicated in; share in; (participate); belong to, appertain to; combine, inhere in, unite. |
Dueness | Verb: be due; Adjective: to, be the due; n. of; have right to, have title to, have claim to; be entitled to; have a claim upon; belong to; (property). |
Duty | Verb: be the duty of; be incumbent; Adjective: on, be responsible; Adjective: behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself; (promise); be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility; Noun: be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself. |
Possession | Belong to, appertain to, pertain to; be in one's possession; Adjective: vest in. |
Power | Belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in one's power; can, be able. |
Property | Be one's property; Noun: belong to; appertain to, pertain to. |
Relation | Verb: be related; Adjective: have a relation; Noun: relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to, belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A vision of the universe, that tells us undeniably, that we belong to something that is greater then ourselves, and that none of us are alone. (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) Those belong to people. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) My body may belong to you, but my soul belongs to Warner Brothers! (Uncle Tom's Bungalow; writing credit: André-Paul Antoine; André Birabeau) They belong to no one else. (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) I don't think I have more brains than a writer, I just think that his brains belong to me (The Last Tycoon; writing credit: F. Scott Fitzgerald; Harold Pinter) | |
Lyrics | Oh I belong to you (I Belong To You; performing artist: Lenny Kravitz) Now you belong to heaven (Candle In The Wind 1997; performing artist: Elton John) I just want someone to belong to (Dreamlover; performing artist: Mariah Carey) We Belong to the sound of the words (WE BELONG; performing artist: Pat Benatar) The one that I belong to ("You're Still the One"; performing artist: Shania Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | You Belong to My Heart (1945) Community Sing: You Belong to My Heart (1945) You Belong to Me (1941) | |
Song Titles | You Belong To The City (performing artist: Glenn Frey) I Belong To You (performing artist: Lenny Kravitz) TONIGHT YOU BELONG TO ME (performing artist: Patience & Prudence ) You Belong To Me (performing artist: The Duprees) I Belong To You (performing artist: Toni Braxton) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rat-tail, also known as a grenadier. These bony fish inhabit sandy plains along the continental slope. Grenadier belong to the family Macrouridae and are gadiformes (cod-like fishes). Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | At Port Said, Egypt, 26 June - 11 July 1898, while serving with Rear Admiral Manuel de la Camara's Philippines relief expedition. She was a merchant ship, requisitioned for naval service during the Spanish-American War. The three smokestacks in the middle distance belong to the cruiser Carlos V. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Underway on 6 August 1952, while en route to the Far East for her third, and final, Korean War deployment. Seven F4U "Corsair" fighter bombers are spotted on the forward end of her flight deck. The "LD" painted on their vertical stabilizers shows that they belong to Marine Fighter Squadron 212 (VMF-212). Credit: NAVY. |  | Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These skilled hands belong to sixty-five-year-old Herman Jagow, whose wood carving skill delighted thousands of children riding the horses of merry-go-rounds. Here he is finishing up some carvings. Jagow spends most of hi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley, Virginia. The profile of a YB-17 bomber as seen from beneath the wing of another plane of the same type. These powerful four-engined ships belong to a bombardment squadron at Langley, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ancient horse belong to Mr. Louis Saffer, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client near Branford, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bull and chickens and new barn belong to tenant purchase client Crowell near Isola, Mississippi Delta. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Los Cordova, west of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico. Sheep which belong to Blas Chavez, a Spanish-American rancher. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The good things in life belong to all of us : let's protect them. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | People tell us the only sensible voices in Parliament belong to the NDP : thank you : NDP, the planning party. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Dwight Morrow | The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition. |
George Carlin | Nobody goes right to work. I mean, screw the company - those first twenty minutes belong to you. |
Howard | By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. |
Leigh Hunt | Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. |
Marquis De Sade | Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her. |
Oscar Wilde | The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. |
| No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. | |
Seneca | The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And tho' all the fruits it naturally produces, and beasts it feeds, belong to mankind in common, as they are produced by the spontaneous hand of nature; and no body has originally a private dominion, exclusive of the rest of mankind, in any of them, as they are thus in their natural state: yet being given for the use of men, there must of necessity be a means to appropriate them some way or other, before they can be of any use, or at all beneficial to any particular man. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | Although, therefore, a mandamus may be directed to courts, yet to issue such a writ to an officer for the delivery of a paper, is in effect the same as to sustain an original action for that paper, and, therefore, seems not to belong to appellate, but to original jurisdiction. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | With very few exceptions, all the so-called Socialist and Communist publications that now (1847) circulate in Germany belong to the domain of this foul and enervating literature. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The employees and workmen of French nationality shall have the right to belong to French labour unions. (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | No one may be compelled to belong to an association. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Their subjects in general were such as belong to an opening acquaintance. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But all the blame may not belong to him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | This vineyard will belong to the bank. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We boast that we belong to the Nineteenth Century and are making the most rapid strides of any nation. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Hantaviruses belong to the bunyavirus family of viruses. (references) | |
Smell and taste belong to our chemical sensing system, or the chemosenses. (references) | ||
Antibodies belong to a family of large protein molecules known as immunoglobulins. (references) | ||
Business | Almost 58 percent belong to the commercial sector. (references) | |
Filters and purification equipment belong to one of the few product areas that can be considered strictly environmental. (references) | ||
Women under 21 are usually fashion-driven, but depending on the socio-economic sector they belong to, price may be an issue. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Central African Republic | University faculty and students belong to many political parties and generally express their views without fear of reprisal. (references) |
Vietnam | The Government restricts persons who belong to dissident and unofficial religious groups from speaking publicly about their beliefs. (references) | |
Liberia | Most Mandingos, and hence most Muslims, allied with factions that opposed Taylor during the civil war and still belong to opposition parties. (references) | |
Economic History | Ecuador | All subsurface resources belong to the state. (references) |
Costa Rica | The majority of union members belong to the public sector. (references) | |
Dominican Rep | Truckers belong to syndicates that regulate prices, increasing the price of haulage. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cape Verde | Judges are independent and may not belong to a political party. (references) |
Hungary | No judge or member of the Supreme or Constitutional Courts may belong to a political party, or a trade union. (references) | |
Guatemala | The police detail guarding the house reported that the helicopter did not belong to the Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, but to the military. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | According to a law derived from colonial era practices, all subsurface mineral resources belong to the Government. (references) |
Minorities | Haiti | Mulattos generally belong to the wealthiest classes of society. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Approximately 10 percent belong to the Southern Mande family, of which the Yacouba are the largest group. (references) | |
Political Economy | INDONESIA | Teachers must belong to the teachers' association (PGRI). (references) |
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | All mineral resources belong to the state, which controls all rights to explore or exploit them. (references) | |
Vietnam | All non-governmental Vietnamese organizations must belong to the CPV-controlled Fatherland Front. (references) | |
Trade | Finland | Even though the Aland islands are part of the EU, just as Finland is, Aland does not belong to the Union's tax area. (references) |
Turkey | Turkish factoring companies (again, usually offshoots of banks) generally belong to the International Factors Group based in Belgium. (references) | |
Women | Swaziland | Traditional marriages consider children to belong to the father and to his family if the couple divorces. (references) |
Worker Rights | South Africa | Some unions do not belong to any federation. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Most independent trade unions belong to the CFTUK. (references) | |
Algeria | About two-thirds of the labor force belong to unions. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to -- in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning. Infralapsarians are sometimes called Sublapsarians without material effect upon the importance and lucidity of their views about Adam. Two theologues once, as they wended their way To chapel, engaged in colloquial fray -- An earnest logomachy, bitter as gall, Concerning poor Adam and what made him fall. "'Twas Predestination," cried one -- "for the Lord Decreed he should fall of his own accord." "Not so -- 'twas Free will," the other maintained, "Which led him to choose what the Lord had ordained." So fierce and so fiery grew the debate That nothing but bloodshed their dudgeon could sate; So off flew their cassocks and caps to the ground And, moved by the spirit, their hands went round. Ere either had proved his theology right By winning, or even beginning, the fight, A gray old professor of Latin came by, A staff in his hand and a scowl in his eye, And learning the cause of their quarrel (for still As they clumsily sparred they disputed with skill Of foreordination freedom of will) Cried: "Sirrahs! this reasonless warfare compose: Atwixt ye's no difference worthy of blows. The sects ye belong to -- I'm ready to swear Ye wrongly interpret the names that they bear. You -- Infralapsarian son of a clown! -- Should only contend that Adam slipped down; While you -- you Supralapsarian pup! -- Should nothing aver but that Adam slipped up. It's all the same whether up or down You slip on a peel of banana brown. Even Adam analyzed not his blunder, But thought he had slipped on a peal of thunder! G.J. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Advocate of law and order though I am, I have to admit that there's something kind of creepy about having the hand on the on-off switch of civil liberties belong to John Ashcroft. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Their knowledge of the military art will be advantageously employed in the militia service, and in a measure secure to that class of troops the advantages which in this respect belong to standing armies. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | The rights which belong to us as a nation are not alone to be regarded, but those which pertain to every citizen in his individual capacity, at home and abroad, must be sacredly maintained. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | We are called as a people to give testimony in the sight of the world to our faith that the future shall belong to the free. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expressions using "belong to": all your base are belong to us ♦ belong to smb.'s realm ♦ obligation to belong to a guild. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
all your base are belong to us | 535 |
you belong to me | 66 |
i belong to you | 64 |
lenny kravitz and i belong to you | 21 |
are belong to us | 10 |
you belong to my heart | 9 |
all your bass are belong to us | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "belong to"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | behoort tot (be one of), behoort (be fitting, befit, have, have to, must, ought, ought to, should), behoor tot (be one of), behoor (be fitting, befit, have, have to, must, ought, ought to, should), aanbehoort. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jam në sferë të (be part of smb.'s realm, belong to smb.'s realm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | انتسب (to belong to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | ...rena izan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | pert nyer (be one of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 屬於 (be classified as, to be part of, to belong to), 屬 (category, class, enjoin, family, to belong to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | být èlenem, patřit komu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilhøre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | behoren tot (be one of), behoren (be fitting, befit, have to, must, ought to, should), toebehoren (accessories). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | esti unu el (be one of), aparteni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | hoyra til. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuulua (be among, be audible, be heard, pertain to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | appartenir (be). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | angehören (be a member of, to associate), zugehören (belong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | η εγκατάσταση αποστείρωσης η ο αποστειρωτής των αλμεκτικών δοχείων αποτελεί ανεξάρτητο στοιχείου του γαλακτοκομικού εξοπλισμού (desinfection equipment for milking implements belong to normal milking parlour facilities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tartozik valamihez, valakihez, tartozik (this does not pertain to my office, to come under, to concern, to count among sy's best friends, to fall within sy's cognizance, to owe, to rank), hozzátartozik (pertain, to inhere). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tergolong (belong, classified). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | appartenere (appertain, belong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 所属 (attached to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょぞく (attached to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elongbay otay pertencer (appertain, belong, go, inhere, pertain). (various references) принадлежать (apertain, appertain, belong, pertain). (various references) buin (belong to : do'm buineadh, deal with, to whom). (various references) ser de (become of, belong, come from, hail from), pertenecer a (be one of, belong). (various references) tillhöra (appertain, appertain to, be part of smb.'s realm, belong, inhere, pertain). (various references) ait olmak (appertain, cocern, pertain, refer, regard, relate, reside). (various references) perthyn i (be related to, pertain to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adtigerit, adtigimus, adtingas, adtingebat, adtingerent, adtingit, inest. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | concernere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 24, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tauta de legw umin toiV sofoiV epiginwskein aideisqai proswpon en krisei ou kalon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Haec quoque sapientibus cognoscere personam in iudicio non est bonum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | These thingus forsothe to wise men. To knowen persone in dom is not good. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 24, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Kini usab maoy mga sanglitanan sa manggialamon. Ang may pagkapinalabi sa mga tawo diha sa paghukom dili maayo. |
| Croatian | I ovo je od mudraca: Ne valja biti pristran na sudu. |
| Danish | Også følgende Ordsprog er af vise Mænd. Partiskhed i Retten er ilde. |
| Dutch | Deze spreuken zijn ook van de wijzen. Het aangezicht in het gericht te kennen, is niet goed. |
| Finnish | Nämäkin ovat viisaitten sanoja. Ei ole hyvä tuomitessa henkilöön katsoa. |
| French | Voici encore ce qui vient des sages: Il n`est pas bon, dans les jugements, d`avoir égard aux personnes. |
| German | Dies sind auch Worte von Weisen. Die Person ansehen im Gericht ist nicht gut. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang-orang arif pernah berkata begini: Hakim tidak boleh berat sebelah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Arakian, maka inilah pula beberapa amsal hikmat adanya: Bahwa tak baik dipandang muka orang dalam majelis bicara. |
| Italian | Anche queste sono parole dei saggi. Aver preferenze personali in giudizio non è bene. |
| Maori | ¶ He whakatauki ano hoki enei na te hunga whakaaro nui. Ehara i te mea pai kia whakaaro ki te kanohi tangata ina whakawa. |
| Norwegian | Også disse ordsprog er av vismenn: Dommeren bør ikke gjøre forskjell på folk. |
| Portuguese | Também estes são provérbios dos sábios: Fazer acepção de pessoas no juízo não é bom. |
| Rumanian | Iatq ce mai spun knyelepyii: ,,Nu este bine sq ai kn vedere faya oamenilor kn judecqyi.`` - |
| Russian | уЛБЪБОП ФБЛЦЕ НХ"ТЩНЙ: ЙНЕФШ МЙ"Е ТЙСФЙЕ ОБ УХ"Е--ОЕИПТПЫП. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-l-n-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: bootleg. | |
-2 letters: belong, gentoo, goblet, oblong. | |
-3 letters: begot, beton, blent, bogle, bongo, botel, globe, lento, longe, noble, obole. | |
-4 letters: belt, bent, blet, blot, bole, bolo, bolt, bone, bong, boon, boot, ebon, enol, gelt, gent, glen, glob, gobo, gone, goon, leno, lent, lobe, lobo, loge, logo, lone, long, loon, loot, noel, nolo, note, oboe, obol. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-l-n-o-o-t" | |
+2 letters: conglobate, obsoleting. | |
+3 letters: bootlegging, conglobated, conglobates. | |
+4 letters: bloodletting, geobotanical. | |
+5 letters: biotechnology, bloodlettings, methemoglobin, nonnegotiable. | |
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