band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bănd
ipa: /bænd/
ipa: [beənd]
homophone: banned
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: bands
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English band (also bond), from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandą, *bandiz (“band, fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”). Middle English band reinforced by Old French bande.
Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Danish bånd, Swedish band, Icelandic band (“band”). Related to bond, bind, bend.
Senses: examples: text: The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
examples: text: band and gusset and seam
ref: 1843, Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt:
glosses: A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
glosses: A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
glosses: A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
examples: text: sandstone with bands of shale
text: [...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
glosses: A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
topics: architecture
glosses: A strip of decoration.
A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
topics: architecture
glosses: A strip of decoration.
In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
examples: text: For that heroic band—those children of the furnace who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor them.
ref: 1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement:
glosses: That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
glosses: A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
glosses: Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
examples: text: valence band;  conduction band
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
examples: text: OLd Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaſter,
Haſt thou according to thy oath and band
Brought hither Henry Herford thy bold ſon:
Heere to make good yͤ boiſtrous late appeale,
Which then our leyſure would not let vs heare,
Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:
glosses: A bond.
examples: text: He sent to her his basenet as a faithfull band.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Pledge; security.
glosses: A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
topics: sciences
glosses: Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of band cell.
examples: text: She my trap queen, let her hit the bando / We be countin' up, watch how far them bands go
ref: 2014, “Trap Queen”, performed by Fetty Wap:
glosses: A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) $1000, a grand; (by extension) money
Hyponyms: cam band
elastic band
gum band
hairband
lacquer band
rubber band
shadow band
smart band
stretch band
wedding band
Derived terms: A band
absorption band
airband
Alexander's band
Alexander's dark band
Alice band
awareness band
backband
bag and band
baller band
band-aid
band-aid solution
band cup
bandfish
bandgap
bandhead
bandleader
bandless
bandlike
bandlimited
bandlimiting
bandmixing
bandog
band-pass
band plan
band-saw
band saw
bandsaw
bandshape
band skyphos
band spectrum
bandspread
band-stop
bandstrength
bandstring
bandstructure
band structure
band-tailed antshrike
band-tailed manakin
bandwidth
bandwing
bandwork
bantling
baseband
belly band
belly-band
bellyband
blackband
black band disease
breastband
broadband
browband
chest band
chinband
citizens' band
citizens' band radio
conduction band
crossband
cuffband
currency band
cytoband
cytogenetic band
dance band
darwaza band
dendroband
deskband
driving band
dual-band
endband
footband
freebander
freebanding
gastric band
geoband
germband
ghost band
greaseband
green band
guard band
gumband
hairband
hair band
haircut band
hatband
hayband
head band
headband
heteroband
hot band
hyperband
iliotibial band
iliotibial band friction syndrome
iliotibial band syndrome
imband
immunoband
in-band signaling
in-band signalling
interband
intraband
IT band
Ka-band
K band
knee-band
kneeband
Ku-band
lacky band
lap band
loom band
Lüders band
Mach band
macroband
mesoband
microband
midband
miniband
mini band
Möbius band
Mobius band
moderator band
Moebius band
monoband
moorband
multiband
narrowband
neckband
noseband
oligoclonal band
onychodermal band
orthodontic band
out-of-band
out-of-band signaling
passband
payband
pentaband
platband
powerband
quadband
quadriband
rainband
red band
reef-band
resistance band
ribband
ridgeband
ridged band
rockband
ropeband
rubber-band
rubber band airplane
sand band
s-band
scatter band
scramble band
shag band
sideband
silver band
skeletal eroding band
spaceband
stopband
subband
superband
sweatband
sweet band
tailband
throatband
timeband
tri-band
triband
valence band
Vento band
voiceband
waistband
warband
watchband
waveband
wheelband
wideband
witherband
wrist band
wristband
x-band