BANDING • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Banding

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bˈændɪŋ/ Listen

noun

banding n. A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.

Synonyms: band, stripe.

verb

Band v. t. (past & past part. banded; pres. part. banding)

To bind or tie with a band.

To mark with a band.

To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. "Banded against his throne."

Banded architrave, Banded pier, Banded shaft, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, shaft, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.

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

Band v. i. To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together. "Certain of the Jews banded together."

See images of 'Banding'

Etymology of 'Banding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Banding" Quotes from Famous Books

... demonstrations of the wage-earners and farmers, not to speak of the host of petty sects of so-called reformers during the first phase of the Revolution, were ineffectual. The great labor organizations which had sprung up shortly after the war as soon as the wage-earners felt the necessity of banding themselves to resist the yoke of concentrated capital, after twenty-five years of fighting, had demonstrated their utter inability to maintain, much less to improve, the condition of the workingman. During this period ...

— Equality • Edward Bellamy

... was rolled against what remained of the entrance, so that the small people, though prisoners, were at least secure from dangerous animals. Of course there were variations in the program. There was that degree of fellowship among the cave men, even at this early age, to allow of an occasional banding together for hunting purposes, a battle of some sort or the surrounding and destruction of some of the greater animals. At such times One-Ear would be absent from the cave for days and Ab and his mother would remain sole guardians. The boy enjoyed these ...

— The Story of Ab - A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man • Stanley Waterloo

... was consul with Gaius Antonius, and Mithridates no longer inflicted any injury upon the Romans but had destroyed his own self, Catiline undertook to set up a new government, and by banding together the allies against the state threw the people into fear of a mighty conflict. Now each of these ...

— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio

... on his way to the Missouri and a jolly chaplain he made. In Grant's company came Pierre, the rhymster, bubbling over with jingling minstrelsy, that was the delight of every half-breed camp on the plains. Bareheaded, with a red handkerchief banding back his lank hair, and clad in fringed buckskin from the bright neck-cloth to the beaded moccasins, he was as wild a figure as any one of the savage rabble. Yet this was the poet of the plain-rangers, who caught the song of bird, the burr of cataract through ...

— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut

... of the metal roof and the underlying wooden supports. He banded 14 individuals, most of which were pulled with forceps from their resting places in the old laboratory or the kitchen. All were males. Five were recaptured from one to 13 days after banding, and two were found in the places from which they originally had been plucked 13 days previously. Enders (op. cit.:421) found this species to be abundant about the laboratory where it spent the day ...

— Seventeen Species of Bats Recorded from Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone • E. Raymond Hall

More quotes...