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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

... and Charles and I Were playing it was election day, And I was running for president, And Dick was a band ...

— Under the Tree • Elizabeth Madox Roberts

... "unbred to spinning, in the loom unskilled"; the extraordinary indulgence in personal fancies in the choice of colored ties, as though the male citizens of Berlin had been to an auction of the bastards of a rainbow; the little melon-shaped hats with a band of thick velvet around them; the awkward slouching gait, as of men physically untrained; the enormous proportion of men over forty, who follow behind their stomachs and turn their toes out at an angle of more than forty-five degrees, ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... busy workers round the mysterious platform with widely different thoughts. Some were silent with expectation, some jeered noisily; but, unconscious of praise or laughter, the two brothers directed their little band of ...

— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various

... their coloured caps. In the afternoons he wandered about the hills with the girls in the Frau Professor's house, and sometimes they went up the river and had tea in a leafy beer-garden. In the evenings they walked round and round the Stadtgarten, listening to the band. ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... snapped the toy pistol against my hand? There when the flags were red and white In the breeze and "Bucky" Estil Was firing the cannon brought to Spoon River From Vicksburg by Captain Harris; And the lemonade stands were running And the band was playing, To have it all spoiled By a piece of a cap shot under the skin of my hand, And the boys all crowding about me saying: "You'll die of lock-jaw, Charlie, sure." Oh, dear! oh, dear! What chum of ...

— Spoon River Anthology • Edgar Lee Masters

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