Band
(v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined |
Band
(v. t.) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc. |
Band
(v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts. |
Band
(v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons |
Band
(v. t.) A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
Band
(v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress. |
Band
(v. t.) A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. |
Band
(v. t.) A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. |
Band
(v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals. |
Band
(v. t.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants. |
Band
(v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body. |
Band
(v. t.) A belt or strap. |
Band
(v. t.) A bond |
Band
(v. t.) Pledge |
Band
(v. t.) To bind or tie with a band. |
Band
(v. t.) To mark with a band. |
Band
(v. t.) To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. |
Band
(v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose |
Band
(v. t.) To bandy |
Band
() imp. of Bind. |
Band fish
() A small red fish of the genus Cepola |
Eagle-winged
(a.) Having the wings of an eagle |
Full-winged
(a.) Having large and strong or complete wings. |
Full-winged
(a.) Beady for flight |
Hand-winged
(a.) Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones |
Lace-winged
(a.) Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings |
Light-winged
(a.) Having light and active wings |
Reef-band
(n.) A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made. |
Sack-winged
(a.) Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing |
Scale-winged
(a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera |
Scaly-winged
(a.) Scale-winged. |
Sheath-winged
(a.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle. |
Spur-winged
(a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. |
Winged
(imp. & p. p.) of Wing |
Winged
(a.) Furnished with wings |
Winged
(a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings |
Winged
(a.) Swift |
Winged
(a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing. |
Winged
(a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants |
Winged
(a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body. |
Winged
(a.) Fanned with wings |
band aid
quick fix
quickie
quicky | hurried repair |
red-winged blackbird
redwing Agelaius phoeniceus | North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings |
band-tailed pigeon
band-tail pigeon
bandtail
Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America, often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon |
greenwing
green-winged teal
Anas crecca | common teal of Eurasia and North America |
bluewing
blue-winged teal
Anas discors | American teal |
black-winged stilt
Himantopus himantopus | stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings |
dipterous insect
two-winged insects
dipteran
dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
armlet
arm band | a band worn around the arm for decoration |
| band | a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) |
band banding
stripe | an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material |
| band | a restraint put around something to hold it together |
| band ring | a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) |
| band | a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration |
| band | a driving belt in machinery |
| Band Aid | trade name for an adhesive bandage to cover small cuts or blisters |
bandsaw
band saw | an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels |
| brake band | a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation |
| cigar band | a narrow paper band around a cigar |
ring
band | jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger, she had rings on every finger, he noted that she wore a wedding band |
rubber band
elastic band
elastic | a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together |
wedding ring
wedding band | a ring (usually plain gold) given to the bride (and sometimes one is also given to the groom) at the wedding |
| weed mourning band | a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning |
wristlet
wrist band | a band or bracelet worn around the wrist |
band
banding
stria
striation | a stripe or stripes of contrasting color, chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands, the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps |
isthmus
band | a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure |
vocal cord
vocal fold
vocal band
plica vocalis | either of two pairs of folds of mucous membrane projecting into the larynx |
| band | a range of frequencies between two limits |
frequency band
waveband | a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals) |
Asbat al-Ansar
Band of Partisans | an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early s that advocates Salafism, responsible for murders and bombings, seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps, funded by al-Qaeda |
set circle
band lot | an unofficial association of people or groups, the smart set goes there, they were an angry lot |
| band | instrumentalists not including string players |
| marching band | a band that marches (as in a parade) and plays music at the same time |
| brass band | a group of musicians playing only brass and percussion instruments |
concert band
military band | a group of musicians playing brass and woodwind and percussion instruments |
| jug band | a musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments |
dance band
band dance orchestra | a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing |
| big band | a large dance or jazz band usually featuring improvised solos by lead musicians |
jazz band
jazz group
combo | a small band of jazz musicians |
rock group
rock band | a band of musicians who play rock'n'roll music |
| steel band | a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands) |
| absorption band | a dark band in the spectrum of white light that has been transmitted through a substance that exhibits absorption at selective wavelengths |
winged pigweed
tumbleweed Cycloloma atriplicifolium | bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds |
winged everlasting
Ammobium alatum | Australian plant widely cultivated for its beautiful silvery-white blooms with bright yellow centers on long winged stems |
winged elm
wing elm
Ulmus alata | North American elm having twigs and young branches with prominent corky projections |
winged pea asparagus pea
Lotus tetragonolobus | sprawling European annual having a -winged edible pod |
winged bean
winged pea goa bean goa bean vine
Manila bean
Psophocarpus tetragonolobus | a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings, Old World tropics |
winged spindle tree
Euonymous alatus | bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings, brilliant red in autumn, northeastern Asia to central China |
ring
band | attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify, ring birds, band the geese to observe their migratory patterns |
| band | bind or tie together, as with a band |
band oneself
league together | attach oneself to a group |