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greenbelt

n. (alternative spelling of green belt English)

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greenbelt

n. a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city [syn: greenway]

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Greenbelt, MD -- U.S. city in Maryland
Population (2000): 21456
Housing Units (2000): 10180
Land area (2000): 5.982289 sq. miles (15.494056 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.034679 sq. miles (0.089819 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.016968 sq. miles (15.583875 sq. km)
FIPS code: 34775
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.000460 N, 76.888325 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20770
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Greenbelt (Ottawa)

The Greenbelt is a crescent of land within the present-day boundaries of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in which real estate development is strictly controlled. It begins at Shirleys Bay in the west and extends to Green's Creek in the east. of the greenbelt is owned and managed by the National Capital Commission (NCC) and the rest is held by other federal government departments and private interests.

Greenbelt (Golden Horseshoe)

The Greenbelt is a permanently protected area of green space, farmland, forests, wetlands, and watersheds, located in Southern Ontario, Canada. It surrounds a significant portion of Canada's most populated and fastest-growing area—the Golden Horseshoe.

Created by legislation passed by the Government of Ontario in 2005, the Greenbelt is considered a major step in the prevention of urban development and sprawl on environmentally sensitive land in the province. At over 1.8 million acres (7300 km²), the Greenbelt is one of the largest and most successful greenbelts in the world.

Greenbelt (Ayala Center)

Greenbelt is a shopping mall located at Ayala Center, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines which is just near Glorietta and SM Makati. It is owned by Ayala Malls, a real-estate subsidiary of Ayala Land, which is an affiliate of Ayala Corporation. It opened in the 1980s and is one of Ayala Corporation's flagship projects. The mall offers a mix of high-end retail shops, restaurants, amenities, leisure and entertainment. Currently, the mall has five sections: two enclosed areas, two buildings with open-air shopping areas, and Greenbelt 5, which opened in 2007.

Usage examples of "greenbelt".

They had taken the eight-mile Greenbelt Bikeway from Boston Common, ending at the Franklin Park Zoo.

Rocky guided her out the back door and onto the greenbelt that followed the Boise River.

The kitchen window provided a view of the greenbelt that wound through Los Cabos, a sprawling condominium development in Irvine.

Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, was a short drive from the White House—and the sprawling, campuslike complex had several electromagnetically shielded labs for the routine assembly and checkout of scientific satellites.

Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, was a short drive from the White House—and the sprawling, campuslike complex had several electromagnetically shielded labs for the routine assembly and checkout of scientific satellites.

That was the wonderful thing about Novgorod: because they had the Amity escarpment on the east and the terraforming had piled up the rock and put up towers to make the Curtainwall on the west, and because they had all those people and all that sewage and all that algae and the greenbelt and algae starting out even in the marine shallows, it was one of the few places in the world besides Reseune that people went out without D-suits and the only other airport besides Reseune where you could take your baggage right through without anything but a hose-down and an inspection.

Will Wal-Mart megaliths chew up England’s greenbelts and bleed rural high streets?

Between the greenbelts and the neighborhoods of lushly landscaped properties, the vegetation on undeveloped fields and hills was parched and brown, waiting for the kiss of a match in the trembling hand of one of the pyromaniacs contributing to the annual, devastating wildfire season.

But the gracefully curving streets, iron streetlamps with an artificial green patina, just-so arrangements of palms and jacarandas and ficus benjaminas, and well-maintained greenbelts with beds of colorful flowers were so soothing to the eye and soul that the subliminal sense of regimentation was not stifling.

The innermost ring was a greenbelt lying on both sides of the dog pod grid, and the outer ring was called the Leased Territories.