What is "belinda"

Belinda is an inner satellite of the planet Uranus. Belinda was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 13 January 1986 and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 5. It is named after the heroine of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. It is also designated Uranus XIV.

Belinda belongs to the Portia group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Juliet, Cupid, Rosalind and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Other than its orbit, radius of 45 km and geometric albedo of 0.08 virtually nothing is known about it.

The Voyager 2 images show Belinda as an elongated object with its major axis pointing towards Uranus. The moon is very elongated, with its short axis 0.5 ± 0.1 times the long axis. Its surface is grey in color.

Belinda is a feminine given name of unknown origin, apparently coined from Italian bella, meaning "beautiful". Alternatively it may be derived from the Old High German name Betlinde, which possibly meant "bright serpent" or "bright linden tree".

"Belinda" is a 1981 song by the British new wave duo Eurythmics. It was the band's second single, and the second and final single to be taken from their debut album In the Garden.

Belinda is a 1986 novel by Anne Rice, originally published in under the pen name Anne Rampling.

Belinda follows in the footsteps of Exit to Eden in its themes of the darker side of human romance. Whereas the earlier novel explored BDSM, Belinda explores the relationship between a grown man and an underage girl.

Belinda is the self-titled debut studio album by Spanish-born Mexican recording artist Belinda. It was released in Mexico by Sony BMG and internationally by RCA Records on August 5, 2003. The album was certified triple platinum and gold in Mexico on March 11, 2005.

Belinda is the first solo album by Belinda Carlisle, notable as her first recording after the break-up of new wave band The Go-Go's, for whom she was their lead singer. Released in mid- 1986 it featured a hit single "Mad About You" which went to No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 in Canada.

Belinda is a common female first name.

Belinda may also refer to:

In music:

• Belinda (entertainer), a Spanish-Mexican actress and singer
  • Belinda (Belinda album)
• Belinda (Belinda Carlisle album)
• Pretty Belinda, 1969 Chris Andrews song
• "Belinda" (song), 1981 Eurythmics song
• "Belinda", a 1971 song by Bobby Gentry from Patchwork

In literature:

• Belinda (Rice novel), a novel by Anne Rice writing as Anne Rampling
• Belinda (Edgeworth novel), a novel by Maria Edgeworth
• Belinda (Broughton novel), a novel by Rhoda Broughton
• Belinda (play), a play by A. A. Milne
• Belinda (comic strip) or Belinda Blue-Eyes, a UK comic strip by Steve Dowling
• Belinda, a comics series by Guido Crepax
• Belinda (Allen book), a 1992 children's book

In film and television:

• Belinda (film), a 1988 Australian film
• Belinda (telenovela), a 2004 Mexican series featuring Adriana Cataño
• Belinda, a fictional character from Mona the Vampire

Places:

• Belinda (moon), a moon of Uranus named after the heroine of The Rape of the Lock
• Belinda, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Mount Belinda, a stratovolcano on Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands

Other uses:

• Belinda (ship), a brig wrecked in 1824 in Western Australia
• Stan Belinda (born 1966), a former Major League Baseball player

Belinda (For You) is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2004 on TV Azteca's Azteca 13. It starred Leonardo Garcia and Mariana Torres as protagonists.

Belinda is a 1988 Australian film directed by Pamela Gibbons which stars Deanne Jeffs in the title role. The film was also known as Midnight Dancer.

Belinda is a 1992 children's picture book written and illustrated by Pamela Allen. It is about a cow that is particular about who milks her and the lengths a man takes to do so.

Belinda, aka Belinda Blue-Eyes, was a newspaper comic strip created in 1936 by the cartoonist Steve Dowling (1904-1986) and scripted by Bill Connor. It was published in the UK newspaper Daily Mirror.

In The Penguin Book of Comics, George Perry and Alan Aldridge wrote, "Belinda Blue Eyes was a perpetual waif, a British counterpart to the transatlantic Little Orphan Annie. Over the years she grew slowly. By 1959 when the strip ended, she had just about reached the stage when she needed a bra."

In 1943, Tony Royle took over as the artist. During World War II, the title was shortened to Belinda. Royle continued to draw the strip with writer Don Freeman until the end of its run on 17 October 1959. Royle retired to Badsey in Worcestershire, England, where he died March 1966.

Belinda is an 1801 novel by the Irish writer Maria Edgeworth. It was first published in three volumes by Joseph Johnson of London, and was reprinted by Pandora Press in 1986. The novel was Edgeworth's second published, and was considered controversial in its day for its depiction of an interracial marriage.

In its first (1801) and second (1802) editions, Juba, an African servant on a plantation in Jamaica, marries an English farm-girl named Lucy. But the third edition of the book, published in 1810, omits the character Juba, and instead has Lucy betrothed to one James Jackson. Also, in the first two editions, Belinda almost marries Mr. Vincent, a rich West Indian Creole; in the 1810 edition, Belinda only esteems him and never agrees to marry him. It has been argued that this change came at the insistence of Edgeworth's father, rather than the author herself, because he edited several of her works.