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[Noun] | "band" | \ ˈband \

1: something that confines or constricts while allowing a degree of movement

2: something that binds or restrains legally, morally, or spiritually

3: a strip serving to join or hold things together: such as

Origin: 12th century ;

In senses 1 & 2, from Middle English band, bond something that constricts, from Old Norse band; akin to Old English bindan to bind; in other senses, from Middle English bande strip, from Middle French, from Vulgar Latin *binda, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German binta fillet; akin to Old English bindan to bind, bend fetter {mat|bind|};

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[Noun] | "band"

1: a group of persons, animals, or things; especially : a group of musicians organized for ensemble playing

Origin: 15th century ;

Borrowed from Middle French bande "troop, company of people," borrowed from Old Occitan banda, going back to Late Latin banda, plural of bandum "flag, standard" (attested in glosses), borrowed from Gothic bandwo "sign, signal" (or a cognate Germanic word), of uncertain origin;

* Note : The meaning of the Latin word is well illustrated by the following passage from Paul the Deacon's History of the Lombards (Historia Langobardorum, 1.20), written in the late eighth century: "Tato vero Rodulfi vexillum, quod bandum appellant, eiusque galeam, quam in bello gestare consueverat, abstulit." ("Tato [a Lombard king] indeed carried off the banner of Rodulf [a king of the Heruli, a Germanic people], which they call bandum, and his helmet, which he had been accustomed to wear in battle") The presumption is that the standard, which served as a rallying or assembly point for a group of soldiers, was applied to the group itself, and the meaning further generalized to any company of people. — The Gothic word bandwo is generally taken as descending from Indo-European *bheh2- "shine, give light, appear" (see: {fantasy:1|fantasy:1}) though derivational detail is lacking. D. Kroonen (Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, Brill, 2013) see:s it as from *bhonh2-tu̯éh2, from the base of Germanic *bannan- "speak formally, call on, order" (from *bhonh2-e-, per Kroonen; see: {ban:1|ban:1} ). The Gothic noun has a verbal derivative bandwjan "to give a sign, reveal," with a prefixed form gabandwjan. The verb is matched by Old Icelandic benda "to beckon, give a sign, forebode," apparently the only other Germanic evidence for the etymon.;

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[Noun] | "absorption band"

1: a dark band in an absorption spectrum; also : absorption line

Origin: 1852 ;

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[Noun] | "brass band"

1: a band consisting chiefly or solely of brass and percussion instruments

Origin: 1827 ;

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[Noun] | "citizens band"

1: a range of radio-wave frequencies that in the U.S. is allocated officially for private radio communications

Origin: 1947 ;

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[Noun] | "conduction band"

1: the range of permissible energy values which an electron in a solid material can have that allows the electron to dissociate from a particular atom and become a free charge carrier in the material

Origin: 1939 ;

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[Noun] | "garage band"

1: an amateur rock band typically holding its rehearsals in a garage and usually having only a local audience

Origin: 1972 ;

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[Noun] | "jam band"

1: a band (especially a rock band) whose performances are distinguished by frequent and often lengthy jazzlike improvisation —sometimes hyphenated when used before another noun

Origin: 1934 ;

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[Verb] | "band"

1: to affix a band to or tie up with a band

2: to finish or decorate with a band

3: to gather together : unite

Origin: 15th century ;

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[Plural noun] | "Ge*ne*va bands" | \ jə-ˈnē-və- \

1: two strips of white cloth suspended from the front of a clerical collar and sometimes worn by Protestant clergymen —called also Geneva tabs

Origin: 1636 ;

Geneva, Switzerland; from their use by the Calvinist clergy of Geneva;

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[Noun] | "bands"

1: a circular strip;

* e.g., " ... a band of cloth tied around his wrist "

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2: something that physically prevents free movement;

* e.g., " ... numerous bands of plastic held the toy securely in the box "

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3: a line or long narrow section differing in color from the background;

* e.g., " ... skunks have a band of white down their backs "

Synonyms :
bars,
streaks,
stripes

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[Noun] | "bands"

1: a usually large group of musicians playing together;

* e.g., " ... that band is looking for a new singer "

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2: a group of people working together on a task;

* e.g., " ... a band of volunteer searchers found the lost child "

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3: a usually small number of persons considered as a unit;

* e.g., " ... a band of explorers "

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[Noun] | "band"

1: a circular strip;

* e.g., " ... a band of cloth tied around his wrist "

Synonyms :
circle,
eye,
hoop,
loop,
ring,
round

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2: something that physically prevents free movement;

* e.g., " ... numerous bands of plastic held the toy securely in the box "

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3: a line or long narrow section differing in color from the background;

* e.g., " ... skunks have a band of white down their backs "

Synonyms :
bar,
streak,
stripe

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[Noun] | "band"

1: a usually large group of musicians playing together;

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2: a group of people working together on a task;

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3: a usually small number of persons considered as a unit;

* e.g., " ... a band of explorers "

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[Noun] | "brass bands"

1: as in chamber orchestras, sinfoniettas;

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[Verb] | "bands"

1: to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt;

* e.g., " ... banded the waist of the dress with a matching belt "

Antonyms :
ungirds,
unwraps

2: to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord;

* e.g., " ... banded the newspapers together for delivery "

Synonyms :
binds,
ties,
trusses

Antonyms :
unbinds,
unties

3: to make stripes on;

* e.g., " ... banded the sleeves of the robe with strips of contrasting material "

Synonyms :
bars,
streaks,
stripes

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[Verb] | "band"

1: to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt;

* e.g., " ... banded the waist of the dress with a matching belt "

Antonyms :
ungird,
unwrap

2: to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord;

* e.g., " ... banded the newspapers together for delivery "

Synonyms :
bind,
tie,
truss

Antonyms :
unbind,
untie

3: to make stripes on;

* e.g., " ... banded the sleeves of the robe with strips of contrasting material "

Synonyms :
bar,
streak,
stripe

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[Verb] | "band (together)"

1: to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end;

* e.g., " ... we're banding together to oppose the construction of one of those big-box stores in our town "

Antonyms :
break up,
disband

2: to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members;

* e.g., " ... small farmers banded together to oppose the interests of the agricultural giants "

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