Band

[bænd]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body).

(noun.) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material.

(noun.) a restraint put around something to hold it together.

(noun.) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration).

(noun.) a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration.

(noun.) a driving belt in machinery.

(noun.) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; 'chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands'; 'the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps'.

(noun.) a range of frequencies between two limits.

(noun.) instrumentalists not including string players.

(verb.) bind or tie together, as with a band.

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解釋/意思:

(v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.

(v. t.) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.

(v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

(v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.

(v. t.) A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

(v. t.) A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.

(v. t.) A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.

(v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

(v. t.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.

(v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

(v. t.) A belt or strap.

(v. t.) A bond

(v. t.) Pledge; security.

(v. t.) To bind or tie with a band.

(v. t.) To mark with a band.

(v. t.) To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.

(v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.

(v. t.) To bandy; to drive away.

(-) imp. of Bind.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Tie, ligature, ligament.[2]. Cord, chain, fetter, manacle, shackle, bond.[3]. Bandage, fillet, binding.[4]. Company (especially of instrumental musicians), troop, gang, crew, horde, party, body, club, junto, COTERIE, CLIQUE, society, sodality, association.

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解釋/意思:

n. a number of persons bound together for any common purpose: a troop of conspirators confederates &c.: a body of musicians the company of musicians attached to a particular regiment in the army: (Scot.) band = bond.—v.t. to bind together.—v.i. to associate assemble confederate.—ns. Band′master the leader of a band of musicians; Bands′man a member of a band of musicians; Band′-stand a platform for accommodating a band of musicians.—Band of Hope an association of young persons—often mere infants—pledged to lifelong abstinence from alcoholic drinks—first instituted about 1847.

n. a strip of cloth or the like to bind round anything as a hat-band waist-band &c.: a stripe crossing a surface distinguished by its colour or appearance: the neck-band or collar of a shirt also the collar or ruff worn by both sexes in the 17th century (termed a falling-band later when turned down over the shoulders): (pl.) the pair of linen strips hanging down in front from the collar worn by some Protestant clergymen and by English barristers.—n. Band′age a strip or swathe of cloth used by surgeons to keep a part of the body at rest to apply pressure or to retain dressings or apparatus in position—the two chief varieties the roller and the triangular handkerchief bandage: a piece of cloth used to blindfold the eyes.—v.t. to bind with such.—n. Band′box a light kind of box for holding bands caps millinery &c.—p.adj. Band′ed fastened as with a band: striped with bands: leagued allied.—ns. Band′fish a name given to various kinds of fish with long thin flat bodies; Band′saw an endless saw consisting of a toothed steel belt; Band′ster one who binds the sheaves after the reapers.

n. that by which loose things are held together: (fig.) a moral bond of restraint or of obligation: a tie or connecting piece: (pl.) shackles bonds fetters (B.): (arch.) an agreement or promise given: (arch.) security given: (Spens.) a pledge.

v.t. (Spens.) to ban or banish.

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