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Band

noun

1.

An unofficial association of people or groups. Synonyms: circle, lot, set. "They were an angry lot"

2.

Instrumentalists not including string players.

3.

A stripe or stripes of contrasting color. Synonyms: banding, stria, striation. "The black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"

4.

An adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material. Synonyms: banding, stripe.

5.

A group of musicians playing popular music for dancing. Synonyms: dance band, dance orchestra.

6.

A range of frequencies between two limits.

7.

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

8.

A cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure. Synonym: isthmus.

9.

Jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger. Synonym: ring. "He noted that she wore a wedding band"

10.

A driving belt in machinery.

11.

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.

12.

A strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration). Synonym: ring.

13.

A restraint put around something to hold it together.

verb

(past & past part. banded; pres. part. banding)

1.

Bind or tie together, as with a band.

2.

Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify. Synonym: ring. "Band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"

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"Band" Quotes from Famous Books

... into the new side-road without meeting a man. Then a small foraging party halted them, and Sergius showed the seal and spoke in Gallic to its Numidian leader. A little farther on was stationed another band, and here the delay was longer ere his halting Punic convinced the Spanish piquet, and they again rode forward unsuspected. All had bowed low to the horse and the palm tree, and no one dared question what weighty mission urged ...

— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne

... I ain't never surprised at nothin' Jane Cobden does. She's queerer than Dick's hat-band, and allus was, and I've knowed her ever since she used to toddle up to my house and I baked cookies for her. I've seen her many a time feed the dog with what I give her, just because she said he looked hungry, which there warn't a mite o' truth in, for there ...

— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith

... God save the Queen and everybody stood up in respectful silence; and as the last notes of the German band died away Mrs. Woodcock took leave of her friends as we will do of the characters of ...

— Daisy Ashford: Her Book • Daisy Ashford

... fear clutched at her heart, and she stood rigid, her eyes wide as she looked for some sign that would confirm her fears. And then she saw a moist red patch on his shirt on the right side just below the shoulder blade, and it seemed that a band of steel had been suddenly pressed down over her forehead. Something had happened ...

— The Trail to Yesterday • Charles Alden Seltzer

... participation in the rejoicing of that day. But acquiescence is a duty, under circumstances not placed among those we are permitted to control. I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our ...

— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly

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