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rib⋅bon

  [rib-uhn]
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–noun
1. a woven strip or band of fine material, as silk or rayon, varying in width and finished off at the edges, used for ornament, tying, etc.
2. material in such strips.
3. anything resembling or suggesting a ribbon or woven band.
4. a band of inked material used in a typewriter, adding machine, etc., that supplies ink for printing the figure on the striking typeface onto the paper beneath.
5. a strip of material, as satin or rayon, being or representing a medal or similar decoration, esp. a military one: an overseas ribbon.
6. ribbons,
a. torn or ragged strips; shreds: clothes torn to ribbons.
b. reins for driving.
7. a long, thin flexible band of metal, as for a spring, a band saw, or a tapeline.
8. Also, ribband. Also called ledger, ledger board, ribbon strip. Carpentry. a thin horizontal piece let into studding to support the ends of joists.
9. Architecture. came 2 .
10. Also, ribband. Nautical. a distinctive narrow band or stripe painted along the exterior of a hull.
11. Shipbuilding. ribband 1 (def. 1).
–verb (used with object)
12. to adorn with ribbon.
13. to mark with something suggesting ribbon.
14. to separate into ribbonlike strips.
–verb (used without object)
15. to form in ribbonlike strips.
Also, riband (for defs. 8, 10).

Origin:
1520–30; var. of ME riban(d) < OF, var. of r (e)uban, perh. < Gmc. See band 2

Related forms:
rib⋅bon⋅like, rib⋅bon⋅y, adjective
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came

2  [keym]
–noun
a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.
Also called ribbon.

Origin:
1680–90; special use of came ridge; see kame, comb 1

rib⋅band

1  [rib-band, rib-uhnd, -uhn]
–noun
1. Also, ribbon. Shipbuilding. a strip of wood or metal running fore-and-aft along frames to keep them in the proper position until the shell planking or plating is in place.
2. Carpentry. ribbon (def. 8).
Origin:
1705–15; rib 1 + band 2
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ledger board  
n.  
  1. The top railing of a fence or balustrade.
  2. A narrow horizontal board attached to a row of studs to support the ends of floor or ceiling joists. Also called ribbon.
rib·bon   (rĭb'ən)   
n.  
  1. A narrow strip or band of fine fabric, such as satin or velvet, finished at the edges and used for trimming, tying, or finishing.
    1. Something, such as a tape measure, that resembles a ribbon.
    2. A long thin strip: a ribbon of land along the shore.
    3. A band of colored cloth signifying membership in an order or the award of a prize.
    4. A strip of colored cloth worn on the left breast of a uniform to indicate the award of a medal or decoration.
  3. ribbons Tattered or ragged strips: a dress torn to ribbons.
  4. An inked strip of cloth used for making an impression, as in a typewriter.
    1. A band of colored cloth signifying membership in an order or the award of a prize.
    2. A strip of colored cloth worn on the left breast of a uniform to indicate the award of a medal or decoration.
  6. ribbons Informal Reins for driving horses.
  7. See ledger board.
tr.v.   rib·boned, rib·bon·ing, rib·bons
  1. To decorate or tie with ribbons.
  2. To tear into ribbons or shreds.

[Middle English ribban, riban, from Old French ruban, probably of Germanic origin; see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.]
rib'bon·y adj.
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Ribbon

Rib"bon\, n. [OE. riban, OF. riban, F. ruban, probably of German origin; cf. D. ringband collar, necklace, E. ring circle, and band.] [Written also riband, ribband.]

1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

3. (Shipbuilding) Same as Rib-band.

4. pl. Driving reins. [Cant] --London Athen[ae]um.

5. (Her.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

6. (Spinning) A silver.

Note: The blue ribbon, and The red ribbon, are phrases often used to designate the British orders of the Garter and of the Bath, respectively, the badges of which are suspended by ribbons of these colors. See Blue ribbon, under Blue.

Ribbon fish. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish of the family Trachypterid[ae], especially the species of the genus Trachypterus, and the oarfish (Regelecus Banksii) of the North Atlantic, which is sometimes over twenty feet long. (b) The hairtail, or bladefish. (c) A small compressed marine fish of the genus Cepola, having a long, slender, tapering tail. The European species (C. rubescens) is light red throughout. Called also band fish.

Ribbon grass (Bot.), a variety of reed canary grass having the leaves stripped with green and white; -- called also Lady's garters. See Reed grass, under Reed.

Ribbon seal (Zo["o]l.), a North Pacific seal (Histriophoca fasciata). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously banded and striped with yellowish white.

Ribbon snake (Zo["o]l.), a common North American snake (Eutainia saurita). It is conspicuously striped with bright yellow and dark brown.

Ribbon Society, a society in Ireland, founded in the early part of the 19th century in antagonism to the Orangemen. It afterwards became an organization of tennant farmers banded together to prevent eviction by landlords. It took its name from the green ribbon worn by members as a badge.

Ribborn worm. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A tapeworm. (b) A nemertean.

Ribbon

Rib"bon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ribboned; p. pr. & vb. n. Ribboning.] To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
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Language Translation for : ribbon
Spanish: cinta,
German: das Band,
Japanese: リボン
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ribbon 
1377, ribane, from O.Fr. riban "a ribbon," var. of ruban (13c.), of unknown origin, possibly from a Gmc. compound whose second element is related to band. Modern spelling is from c.1545. Custom of colored ribbon loops worn on lapels to declare support for some oppressed or suffering group began in 1991 with AIDS red ribbons.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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