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band·ed

   [ban-did]
adjective
1.
marked or fitted with a band or bands.
2.
Architecture. (of a column, door architrave, etc.) having the regular flutings, moldings, or the like interrupted at regular intervals by projecting blocks or drums.
Origin:
1480–90; band2 + -ed2

Related forms
in·ter·band·ed, adjective
un·band·ed, adjective

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band

1   [band]
noun
1.
a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
2.
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.
c.
big band.
d.
dance band.
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.
verb (used without object)
6.
to unite; confederate (often followed by together): They banded together to oust the chairman.
Idiom
7.
to beat the band, Informal. energetically; abundantly: It rained all day to beat the band.
Origin:
1480–90; < Middle French bande < Italian banda; cognate with Late Latin bandum < Germanic; akin to Gothic bandwa standard, band2, band3, bend1, bond1

Synonyms
1. gang, group; body; set; society, association, assembly. See company.

band

2   [band]
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.
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.
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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, especially 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.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
15.
to mark, decorate, or furnish with a band or bands.
Origin:
1480–90; < Middle French; Old French bende < Germanic; compare Old High German binta fillet. See bind, band1

Related forms
band·er, noun
band·less, adjective
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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
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musicians 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.
COLLAPSE
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Medical Dictionary

band (bānd)
n.

  1. An appliance or a part of an apparatus that encircles or binds a part of the body.

  2. A cordlike tissue that connects or that holds bodily structures together.

  3. A chromatically, structurally, or functionally differentiated strip or stripe in or on an organism.

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band   (bānd)  Pronunciation Key 
A specific range of electromagnetic wavelengths or frequencies, as those used in radio broadcasting.
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