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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."

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Etymology of 'Banding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... regimen can we hope to avert the horrors of famine, and forewarned by the fate of many who in similar circumstances have miserably perished, we are determined to do all that prudence can suggest for hus- banding ...

— The Survivors of the Chancellor • Jules Verne

... unaided. The swain in the poem tells of his intention to make a bonnet for his chosen nymph to wear. He will fashion it with "golden thimble, scissors, needle, thread"; taking velvet from the April sky as a groundwork, stars for trimming, moonlight for banding, and a web of dreams for lining. He will scent it with the perfume of "the reddest rose that the singing wind finds sweetest where it farthest blows," and "will take it at the twilight for his love to wear." Here we ...

— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft

... Commanding Mixed Squads. In order to practice noncommissioned officers in commanding mixed firing squads, and in order to drill the privates in banding themselves together and obeying the orders of anyone who may assume command, it is good training for two or more companies to practice reenforcing each other by one company assuming a given fire-position ...

— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... his eyes open wider. The room was a large one with two beds in it. He and Kent had slept in one, and Old Tilly in the other. It was just before sunrise, and in the east a wide swathe of pink was banding the sky. Outside the window, a crowd of little birds were ...

— Three Young Knights • Annie Hamilton Donnell

... materials, or may be partly derived from the disintegration of basic rocks. When they are most metamorphosed they are often very hard to distinguish from igneous hornblende-schists; yet they rarely fail to reveal signs of bedding, pebbly structure, sedimentary banding and gradual transition into undoubtedly sedimentary types of gneiss and schist. Deposits containing dolomite and siderite also readily yield amphibolites (tremolite-schists, grunorite-schists, &c.) especially where ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

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