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noun
1.
a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
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Music.
a.
a group of instrumentalists playing music of a specialized type: rock band; calypso band; mariachi band.
b.
a musical group, usually employing brass, percussion, and often woodwind instruments, that plays especially for marching or open-air performances.
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.
verb (used with object)
5.
to unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
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Bands
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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used without object)
Idiom6.
to unite; confederate (often followed by together): They banded together to oust the chairman.
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noun
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.
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a strip of paper or other material serving as a label: a cigar band.
5.
EXPANDa plain or simply styled ring, without mounted gems or the like: a thin gold band on his finger.
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bands. Geneva bands.
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a flat collar commonly worn by men and women in the 17th century in western Europe.
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Also called frequency band, wave band. Radio and Television. a specific range of frequencies, especially a set of radio frequencies, as HF, VHF, and UHF.
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Also called energy band. Physics. a closely spaced group of energy levels of electrons in a solid.
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Computers. one or more tracks or channels on a magnetic drum.
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Dentistry. a strip of thin metal encircling a tooth, usually for anchoring an orthodontic apparatus.
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Anatomy, Zoology. a ribbonlike or cordlike structure encircling, binding, or connecting a part or parts.
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COLLAPSE(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.
verb (used with object)
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to mark, decorate, or furnish with a band or bands.
noun Archaic.
1.
Usually, bands. articles for binding the person or the limbs; shackles; manacles; fetters.
2.
an obligation; bond: the nuptial bands.
Origin:
1100–50; late Old English < Old Norse band; cognate with Old Saxon, Old Frisian band, Old High German bant; akin to Sanskrit bandha-. See band1
1100–50; late Old English < Old Norse band; cognate with Old Saxon, Old Frisian band, Old High German bant; akin to Sanskrit bandha-. See band1
Geneva bands
noun
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.
Also called bands.
Origin:
1880–85
1880–85
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Word Origin & History
band
"an organized group," late 15c., from M.Fr. bande , traceable to P.Gmc. root of band (1), probably via a band of cloth worn as a mark of identification by a group of soldiers or others (cf. Gothic bandwa "a sign"). The extension to "group of musicians" is c.1660, originally
EXPANDmusicians attached to a regiment of the army. To beat the band (1897) is to make enough noise to drown it out, hence to exceed everything.
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Medical Dictionary
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.
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Science Dictionary
band  (bānd) Pronunciation Key
A specific range of electromagnetic wavelengths or frequencies, as those used in radio broadcasting. |
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Bible Dictionary
Bands definition
(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).
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