banding

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band·ing

[ban-ding]
noun Furniture.
decorative inlay, as for bordering or paneling a piece, composed of strips of wood contrasting in grain or color with the principal wood of the surface.

Origin:
1730–40; band2 + -ing1

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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.
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.
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


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.
EXPAND
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.
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

band·er, noun
band·less, adjective
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banding (ˈbændɪŋ)
 
n
(Brit) the practice of grouping schoolchildren according to ability to ensure a balanced intake at different levels of ability to secondary school

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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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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.

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.

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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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