[band] 
| 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. |
[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] | 1. | Usually, bands. articles for binding the person or the limbs; shackles; manacles; fetters. |
| 2. | an obligation; bond: the nuptial bands. |
| two bands or pendent stripes made usually of white lawn and worn at the throat as part of clerical garb, originally by the Swiss Calvinist clergy. |
| band 1 (bānd) n.
[Middle English bende (from Old English bend and from Old French bande, bende, of Germanic origin) and Middle English bond, band (from Old Norse, band); see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.] |
| 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.
Bands
(1) of love (Hos. 11:4); (2) of Christ (Ps. 2:3); (3) uniting together Christ's body the church (Col. 2:19; 3:14; Eph. 4:3); (4) the emblem of the captivity of Israel (Ezek. 34:27; Isa. 28:22; 52:2); (5) of brotherhood (Ezek. 37:15-28); (6) no bands to the wicked in their death (Ps. 73:4; Job 21:7; Ps. 10:6). Also denotes chains (Luke 8:29); companies of soldiers (Acts 21:31); a shepherd's staff, indicating the union between Judah and Israel (Zech. 11:7).