band
band
- n an unofficial association of people or groups
- n instrumentalists not including string players
- n a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands
the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps - n an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- n a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
- n a range of frequencies between two limits
- n a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
- n a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- n jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
he noted that she wore a wedding band - n a driving belt in machinery
- n 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
- n a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- n a restraint put around something to hold it together
- v bind or tie together, as with a band
- v attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
band the geese to observe their migratory patterns
- Last week the band was getting an extra push from other recording outfits who have rushed yet new versions of Winchester to the stores.
- Each band-section is chaperoned and guided by a ministerial graduate of the Orphanage.
- In fact, if you're the Japanese band Glay (as in "neither black nor white but something in between," according to a publicist), you don't really care what people think.