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UK
/bˈænd/
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[ US /ˈbænd/ ]
[ US /ˈbænd/ ]
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
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an unofficial association of people or groups
they were an angry lot
the smart set goes there -
jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
he noted that she wore a wedding band
she had rings on every finger - an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
- a driving belt in machinery
- instrumentalists not including string players
- a range of frequencies between two limits
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
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a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps
chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands - a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
- a restraint put around something to hold it together
VERB
- bind or tie together, as with a band
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attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
band the geese to observe their migratory patterns
ring birds
How To Use band In A Sentence
- The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
- The captain's armband must have special powers because he's been brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
- Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
- In a landmark case/decision, the Governor pardoned a woman convicted of killing her husband, who had physically abused her.
- Striking that balance between old and new will always be difficult, but after a few numbers here, memories of their old bandmaster begin to fade.
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- Firm words , air shower and broadband are three major key products of the firm net operator.
- One could argue that such a missile defence system would bring about the abandonment of ballistic missiles as strategic weapons.
- After her husband died, Mary tried to kill herself.
- The affair isn't the thing that makes me believe he needs to be removed from office – it's the monumental lack of judgment he displayed in abandoning his states and his duties as governor. Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say