Band

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A group of people.
  • noun. A group of animals.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A unit of social organization especially among hunter-gatherers, consisting of a usually small number of families living together cooperatively.
  • noun. An aboriginal group officially recognized as an organized unit by the Canadian government.
  • noun. A group of musicians who perform as an ensemble.
  • intransitive verb. To assemble or unite in a group.
  • intransitive verb. To form a group; unite.
  • noun. A thin strip of flexible material used to encircle and bind one object or to hold a number of objects together.
  • noun. A strip or stripe that contrasts with something else in color, texture, or material.
  • noun. A narrow strip of fabric used to trim, finish, or reinforce articles of clothing.
  • noun. Something that constrains or binds morally or legally.
  • noun. A simple ungrooved ring, especially a wedding ring.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A neckband or collar.
  • noun. The two strips hanging from the front of a collar as part of the dress of certain clerics, scholars, and lawyers.
  • noun. A high collar popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A chromatically, structurally, or functionally differentiated strip or stripe in or on an organism.
  • noun. A cordlike tissue that connects or holds structures together.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A specific range of wavelengths or frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.
  • noun. A range of very closely spaced electron energy levels in solids, the distribution and nature of which determine the electrical properties of a material.
  • noun. Any of the distinct grooves on a long-playing phonograph record that contains an individual selection or a separate section of a whole.
  • noun. A cord or strip across the back of a book to which the sheets or quires are attached.
  • transitive verb. To tie, bind, or encircle with or as if with a band.
  • transitive verb. To mark or identify with a band.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A flat strip of any material, but especially of a flexible material, used to bind round anything; a fillet: as, a rubber band; a band around the head; a hat-band.
  • noun. Anything resembling a band in form or function.
  • noun. The form of collar commonly worn by men and women in the seventeenth century in western Europe.
  • noun. The linen ornament worn about the neck, with the ends hanging down in front, by certain Protestant clergymen.
  • noun. In mining, a layer of rock interstratified with the coal; sometimes, as in Cumberland, England, the coal itself.
  • noun. A company of persons, especially a body of armed men; a company of soldiers, or of persons united for any purpose.
  • noun. In music, a company of musicians playing various instruments in combination, in the manner of an orchestra: most frequently applied to a company of musicians playing such instruments as may be used in marching.
  • noun. A collection of animals of any kind, as a drove of cattle or horses, or a flock of sheep.
  • To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy: generally reflexive.
  • To unite; associate; confederate for some common purpose.
  • noun. A ridge of a hill: commonly applied in the English lake district to a long ridge-like hill of minor height, or to a long narrow sloping offshoot from a higher hill or mountain.
  • noun. An obsolete or Scotch preterit of bind.
  • To interdict; banish.
  • Same as bandy.
  • noun. A weight equal to about 2 ounces troy, in use in western Africa for weighing gold-dust.
  • noun. In botany, the band-like space between the two mericarps of a cremocarp.
  • noun. Anything which binds the person or the limbs, and serves to restrain or to deprive of liberty; a shackle, manacle, or fetter: usually in the plural.
  • noun. That by which loose things of the same or a similar kind are bound together.
  • noun. That which connects; a connecting piece, or means of connection; that which connects or unites the several parts of a complex thing.
  • noun. Specifically— In logic, the copula.
  • noun. The metallic sleeve which binds the barrel and stock of a musket together.
  • noun. One of two pieces of iron fastened to the bows of a saddle to keep them in place.
  • Form
    has_topic
    Music  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    attach  belt  bind  loop  slip  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Grande  Hand  Land  Marchand  Rand  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    army  body  chain  column  crowd  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    bind  
    verb-form
    banded  banding  bands