Band
[bænd]
Definition
(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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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
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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Definition
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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Examples
- And who are the devoted band, and where will he procure them? Plato. The Republic.
- I will not go with a military band. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Nothing in my powers or instinct placed me amongst this brave band. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The merry King, nothing heeding his dignity any more than his company, laughed, quaffed, and jested among the jolly band. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Clennam, harassed by more anxieties than one, was among this devoted band. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Maybe he is with a band in other mountains. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A form of band saw is found as early as 1808, in British patent No. 3,105, to Newberry. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When this date approaches bands of natives set out from their primitive homes and go, in many instances, hundreds of miles into the forest lowlands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the parson's croft, behind the rectory, are the musicians of the three parish bands, with their instruments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This he was ordered to repair as he advanced --only to have it destroyed by small guerilla bands or other troops as soon as he was out of the way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was the men without the Marxian vision of growth and discipline who were forever trying to lead little marauding bands against the governments of Europe. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ropes, cords, coarse bands of leather were the common provisions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Helstone signed to his bands. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yo' may be kind hearts, each separate; but once banded together, yo've no more pity for a man than a wild hunger-maddened wolf. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Its interior is hung with paper banded alternately blue and white. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They persist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice-pails. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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