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rib⋅bon
[rib-uh
n]
–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,
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| 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. |
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rib·bon (rĭb'ən) n.
[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.
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Language Translation for : ribbon
Spanish:
cinta,
German:
das Band,
Japanese:
リボン
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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