ribbon : Idioms & Phrases

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Blue ribbon

  • noun an honor or award gained for excellence
    cordon bleu.
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  • . (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; hence, a member of that order. (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These [scholarships] were the blue ribbon of the college." Farrar. (c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the Blue ribbon Army.
Webster 1913

blue ribbon commission

  • noun an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue
    blue ribbon commission.
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blue ribbon committee

  • noun an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue
    blue ribbon commission.
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blue ribbon jury

  • noun a jury whose members are selected for special knowledge for a case involving complicated issues
    special jury.
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blue-ribbon

  • adjective satellite selected or chosen for special qualifications
    select.
    • the blue-ribbon event of the season
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cut to ribbons

  • verb defeat totally
    • We must cut the other team to ribbons!
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Lingual ribbon

  • . (Zoöl.) See Odontophore.
Webster 1913

Red ribbon

  • the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England.
Webster 1913

ribbon development

  • noun building complex in a continuous row along a road
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ribbon fern

  • noun fern of North Africa and Azores and Canary Islands
    Pteris serrulata; spider fern.
  • noun epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America
    Vittaria lineata; grass fern.
  • noun epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America
    Ophioglossum pendulum.
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Ribbon fish

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) Any elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish of the family Trachypteridæ, 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.
Webster 1913

Ribbon grass

  • noun perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America
    reed canary grass; lady's laces; Phalaris arundinacea; gardener's garters.
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  • (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.
Webster 1913

Ribbon seal

  • (Zoöl.), a North Pacific seal (Histriophoca fasciata). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously banded and striped with yellowish white.
Webster 1913

Ribbon snake

  • noun slender yellow-striped North American garter snake; prefers wet places
    Thamnophis sauritus.
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  • (Zoöl.), a common North American snake (Eutainia saurita). It is conspicuously striped with bright yellow and dark brown.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

ribbon tree

  • noun deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton
    Plagianthus regius; ribbonwood; Plagianthus betulinus.
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ribbon worm

  • noun soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract
    nemertean; proboscis worm; nemertine.
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ribbon-leaved water plantain

  • noun a variety of water plantain
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ribbon-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped in the form of a ribbon
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Ribborn worm

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) A tapeworm . (b) A nemertean.
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typewriter ribbon

  • noun a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
    ribbon.
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western ribbon snake

  • noun yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics
    Thamnophis proximus.
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White ribbon

  • the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
Webster 1913