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BELONG TO
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be a part or adjunct
Example:
These pages don't belong
Synonyms:
belong; belong to
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "belong to"):
inhere (be inherent in something)
appertain; pertain (be a part or attribute of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples:
To remedy this, he ate as fast as they; and, so greatly did hunger compel him, he was not above taking what did not belong to him.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"Wolf isn't Wolf, but Brown, and he must belong to Mr. Miller."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
That they belong to a woman I infer from their delicacy, and also, of course, from the last words of the dying man.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Similarly, compared to single-born children, twins were more likely to belong to the highest screen time group.
(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)
Researchers had shown the virus replicates in parent cells, which belong to the fetus, to the central nerve.
(Zika virus found to harm adults’ memory and motor system, Agência Brasil/EBC)
Researchers found that the meteorites containing cyanide belong to a group of carbon-rich meteorites called CM chondrites.
(Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life, NASA)
Unlike stars like our sun, collapsed dead stars that belong to stellar pairs, or binaries, can siphon matter from their companions.
(NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars, NASA)
All of these gases belong to the subfamily of hydrocarbons known as aromatics.
(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)
Elapids belong to a larger group of snakes known as colubrids—active foragers that use a variety of methods, including venom to capture and kill prey.
(Researchers find oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes, NSF)
Allergic diseases belong to the most common causes of chronic illness and create a high burden of suffering due to the great impairment in quality of life.
(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
