| 1. | a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters. |
| 2. | Music.
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| 3. | a division of a nomadic tribe; a group of individuals who move and camp together and subsist by hunting and gathering. |
| 4. | a group of persons living outside the law: a renegade band. |
| 5. | to unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. |
| 6. | to unite; confederate (often fol. by together): They banded together to oust the chairman. |
| 7. | to beat the band, Informal. energetically; abundantly: It rained all day to beat the band. |
| 1. | a thin, flat strip of some material for binding, confining, trimming, protecting, etc.: a band on each bunch of watercress. |
| 2. | a fillet, belt, or strap: a band for the hair; a band for connecting pulleys. |
| 3. | a stripe, as of color or decorative work. |
| 4. | a strip of paper or other material serving as a label: a cigar band. |
| 5. | a plain or simply styled ring, without mounted gems or the like: a thin gold band on his finger. |
| 6. | (on a long-playing phonograph record) one of a set of grooves in which sound has been recorded, separated from an adjacent set or sets by grooves without recorded sound. |
| 7. | bands. Geneva bands. |
| 8. | a flat collar commonly worn by men and women in the 17th century in western Europe. |
| 9. | Also called frequency band, wave band. Radio and Television. a specific range of frequencies, esp. a set of radio frequencies, as HF, VHF, and UHF. |
| 10. | Also called energy band. Physics. a closely spaced group of energy levels of electrons in a solid. |
| 11. | Computers. one or more tracks or channels on a magnetic drum. |
| 12. | Dentistry. a strip of thin metal encircling a tooth, usually for anchoring an orthodontic apparatus. |
| 13. | Anatomy, Zoology. a ribbonlike or cordlike structure encircling, binding, or connecting a part or parts. |
| 14. | (in handbound books) one of several cords of hemp or flax handsewn across the back of the collated signatures of a book to provide added strength. |
| 15. | to mark, decorate, or furnish with a band or bands. |
band 2 (bānd) n.
v. tr. To assemble or unite in a group. v. intr. To form a group; unite: banded together for protection. [Earlier bande, from Old French, banner, troop identified by its standard, of Germanic origin.] Synonyms: These nouns denote a group of individuals acting together for a common purpose: a band of thieves; a company of scientists; a corps of drummers; a party of tourists; a troop of students on a field trip; a troupe of actors. |
band (bānd)
n.
An appliance or a part of an apparatus that encircles or binds a part of the body.
A cordlike tissue that connects or that holds bodily structures together.
A chromatically, structurally, or functionally differentiated strip or stripe in or on an organism.
banding band·ing (bān'dĭng)
n.
The differential staining of metaphase chromosomes in cultured cells to reveal their characteristic patterns of stripes in order to identify individual chromosome pairs.
| band (bānd) Pronunciation Key
A specific range of electromagnetic wavelengths or frequencies, as those used in radio broadcasting. |