BELONG TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does belong to mean? 

• BELONG TO (verb)
  The verb BELONG TO has 1 sense:

1. be a part or adjunct

  Familiarity information: BELONG TO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELONG TO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be a part or adjunct

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

belong; belong to

Context example:

These pages don't belong

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 

CRABP-I and CRABP-II belong to the FABP/P2/CRBP/CRABP family of transporters.

(Cellular Retinoic Acid Binding Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The former is common when the helices belong to different polypeptides and the latter prevails in coiled coils made up from a single polypeptide chain.

(Coiled-Coil Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

COX inhibitors belong to the family of drugs called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

(COX inhibitor, NCI Dictionary)

It is evident that you belong to the first circles.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Many calcium-binding proteins belong to the same evolutionary family and share a type of calcium-binding domain known as the EF-hand.

(Calcium-Binding Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

EGFR, HER2 and HER4 are RTKs that belong to the EGFR superfamily; they play major roles in both tumor cell proliferation and tumor vascularization and are overexpressed in many cancer cell types.

(Afatinib, NCI Thesaurus)

It not only connects a set of classes, but also defines a set of features that belong to the relationship itself.

(Association Class, NCI Thesaurus)

The joy of creation that is supposed to belong to the gods was his.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They belong to men who are blood-relatives.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Does it belong to anybody in the neighbourhood?” I asked.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)