band : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a dark band in the spectrum of white light that has been transmitted through a substance that exhibits absorption at selective wavelengths
  

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• noun a band worn around the arm for decoration
  armlet.
  

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• noun trade name for an adhesive bandage to cover small cuts or blisters
  
• noun hurried repair
  quick fix; quickie; quicky.
  

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Band" fish`

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1. (Zoöl.) A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.

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• noun an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda
  Asbat al-Ansar.
  

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• verb attach oneself to a group
  league together.
  

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• noun an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels
  bandsaw.
  

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• a saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with teeth on one edge, running over wheels.

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• verb form a group or unite
  confederate.
  
  • The groups banded together

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• noun wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon
  Columba fasciata; band-tail pigeon; bandtail.
  

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• noun wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon
  Columba fasciata; band-tail pigeon; bandtail.
  

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• noun sluggish krait banded with black and yellow
  Bungarus fasciatus; banded adder.
  

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• noun small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
  Myrmecobius fasciatus; anteater; numbat.
  

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• (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.

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• noun any of several geckos with dark bands across the body and differing from typical geckos in having movable eyelids; of United States southwest and Florida Gulf Coast
  

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• noun sluggish krait banded with black and yellow
  Bungarus fasciatus; banded adder.
  

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• noun an East Indian civet
  Hemigalus hardwickii.
  

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• noun North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band
  white admiral; Limenitis arthemis.
  

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• noun widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States
  timber rattlesnake; Crotalus horridus horridus.
  

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• noun fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters
  Seriola zonata; rudderfish.
  

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• noun a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes
  Chilomeniscus cinctus.
  

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• noun web-footed Australian stilt with reddish-brown pectoral markings
  Cladorhyncus leucocephalum.
  

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• noun in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia; western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water
  common water snake; Nerodia sipedon; Natrix sipedon.
  

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Band"ing plane`

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1. A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

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• noun a large dance or jazz band usually featuring improvised solos by lead musicians
  

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• noun a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation
  

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• noun a group of musicians playing only brass and percussion instruments
  

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• (Mus.), a band of musicians who play upon wind instruments made of brass, as trumpets, cornets, etc.

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• noun a narrow paper band around a cigar
  

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Close"-band`ed adjective

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1. Closely united.

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• noun a group of musicians playing brass and woodwind and percussion instruments
  concert band.
  

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• adjective satellite (of snakes) having crossing bands on the back
  

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Cross"-band`ed adjective

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1. A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surfase of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.

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• noun a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
  band; dance orchestra.
  

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• noun a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together
  elastic band; elastic.
  

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• the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century.

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• noun a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals)
  waveband.
  

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• (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed.

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• > (Arch.), the listel or band from which the guttæ hang.

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• noun a small band of jazz musicians
  jazz group; combo.
  

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• noun a musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments
  

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• noun a band that marches (as in a parade) and plays music at the same time
  

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• noun a group of musicians playing brass and woodwind and percussion instruments
  concert band.
  

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• noun a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
  weed.
  

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• noun having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay
  Texas armadillo; peba; Dasypus novemcinctus.
  

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• (Rom. Hist.), the emperor's bodyguards, instituted by the Emperor Augustus in nine cohorts of 1,000 men each.

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• (Meteorol.), a dark band in the yellow portion of the solar spectrum near the sodium line, caused by the presence of watery vapor in the atmosphere, and hence sometimes used in weather predictions.

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• . See Reef-band in the Vocabulary.

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Reef"-band` noun

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1. (Naut.) A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made. Totten.

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• oblique longitudinal sectionss of the hull of a vessel.

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• noun a band of musicians who play rock'n'roll music
  rock group.
  

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• noun a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together
  elastic band; elastic.
  

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• a latchstring. Burns.

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• a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack.

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• noun a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands)
  

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• (Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or chiefly, stringed instruments.

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• a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant.

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• noun a garment (a gown or narrow strips of cloth) for an infant
  swaddling clothes.
  

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• noun South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates
  Tolypeutes tricinctus; apar.
  

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• a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. Mortimer.

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• noun either of two pairs of folds of mucous membrane projecting into the larynx
  vocal fold; vocal cord; plica vocalis.
  

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• noun a ring (usually plain gold) given to the bride (and sometimes one is also given to the groom) at the wedding
  wedding ring.
  

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• (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military band; the wind instruments of an orchestra.

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• noun a band or bracelet worn around the wrist
  wristlet.
  

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• adjective satellite having yellow bands
  

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