Word Finder - band

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A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

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A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.

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A strip of decoration.

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That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.

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A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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(in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

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A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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A group of energy levels in a solid state material.

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valence band;  conduction band

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A bond.

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Pledge; security.

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A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.

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Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc

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Short for band cell.

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(hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money

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To fasten with a band.

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To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).

A live band started playing a waltz and he dropped a hand to her waist.

The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka.

Maybe the band would help settle him down.

The band played "Fly Me to The Moon".

The band had started to play The Way You Look Tonight.

She waved her arm band, and the door opened.

Her auburn curls were drawn up into a decorative band at the side of her head.

The band immediately struck up "Conquest's joyful thunder waken..."

School was out for the summer, but by the time they could get a band going good, it would be time to go back.

At that moment the band began playing.

We didn't band together to stop her, because she had …dirt on all of us, he explained.

I'm trying to get a group together for a band.

Jonathan and his new band were going to play for them.

What had appeared to be a thick, gold, hard band of about three inches in width had molded around her arm and felt no heavier than the clothing she wore.

The band was 1150 yds.

He pushed her sleeve up to see her band.

The band's playing a fox­trot while you're waltzing around the floor, Fred grumbled.

If he had simply wanted different clothes, she might have complied, but what he wanted to do was slice his clothing up with a razor blade and get jeans so long that they shredded from being walked on – like the other band members.

She met Keaton at the door, scratching at a new spot under the band of her bra in the back.

He reached out and claimed her hand, running a finger around the white band where her engagement ring had been.

Band and earth up cardoons.

Across the room, Darkyn held the tension of a taut rubber band.

A band tooted practice blasts, someone was yelling directions through an old fashioned megaphone, which were ignored, and Suzanne, whose nightly music show serenaded the tourists, warmed up the Star Spangled Banner in a voice that needed no mike.

Liz plopped a straw hat with a red, white, and blue band on Dean's head just as three jets in close formation screamed overhead, buzzing the town in a deafening roar.

She looked at the band on her arm, then down the hall toward Kiera before propping her chin on his chest to gaze at him.

She smashed into it as another quake rumbled beneath her, then rose and waved her band before the door.

Kiera lowered the shirt, glad she'd never convinced herself to remove the band.

Jonathan had band practice with his friends and Alex was in his recliner, reading a letter from a wildlife management area in Colorado.

Jonathan's band played a few country and western songs.

Jessi's hands visibly shook, and he reached out to her, taking the hair band she was trying to use on her hair.

He gathered together a band of supporters, plans were drawn up, and at length all was ready for the rising.

The same firm is also constructing a micrometer in which the readings of the head are printed on a band of paper instead of being read off at the time of observation.

They have a kind of short kilt, stiff, made of black wool, with a band from back to front between the legs; under this they wear short linen trousers, which come a little below the knee, and black woollen leggings with boots.

See Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, Band viii.

It's so heady that the dance floor nation may miss the point entirely and the band couldn't care less.

The arrival of Dolokhov diverted Petya's attention from the drummer boy, to whom Denisov had had some mutton and vodka given, and whom he had had dressed in a Russian coat so that he might be kept with their band and not sent away with the other prisoners.

On the same band a tuning-fork electrically maintained and a seconds clock actuating another style wrote parallel records.

When the plate vibrated the mirror was vibrated about the fixed edge, and the image of a reflected slit was broadened out into a band, the broadening giving the amplitude of vibration of the plate.

In 1833 he had welcomed as workers among his people a band of French Protestant missionaries, and as the Boer immigrants began to settle in his neighbourhood he decided to seek support from the British at the Cape.

Originally the diaconal stole would seem to have been a narrow strip of folded linen, and it appears in the pictures of the 9th century as a narrow band ornamented with crosses.

Among several editions may be mentioned the one in the Monumenta Germaniae historica, chronica minora, Band II.

From that time he gave up his life to study and scientific research, and soon took a prominent place in the band of inquirers, known as the "Invisible College," who devoted themselves to the cultivation of the "new philosophy."

But the headquarters of the opposition was Germany, and its leader was Dollinger, whose high reputation and vast stores of learning placed him far above any other member of the band of the theological experts who now gathered around him.

In October 1511 he was teaching Greek to a little band of students in Cambridge; at Basel in 1516 he produced his edition of the Greek Testament, the first that was actually published; and during the next few years he was helping to organize the college lately founded at Louvain for the study of Greek and Hebrew, as well as Latin.

As a teacher he was remarkably successful, and always commanded an enthusiastic band of followers.

Again Laomedon broke his word; whereupon Heracles returned with a band of warriors, attacked Troy, and slew Laomedon and all his sons except Priam.

Their proper title is "Clerks Regulars of the Society of Jesus," the word Societas being taken as synonymous with the original Spanish term, Compania; perhaps the military term Cohors might more fully have expressed the original idea of a band of spiritual soldiers living under martial law and discipline.

For the seven years following he was the chief speaker among the small band of anti-Imperialists in the French chamber, and was regarded generally as the most formidable enemy of the empire.

He was one of that band of young scholars, among whom were also Ernest Lavisse, Gabriel Monod and Gaston Paris, whose enthusiasm was aroused by the principles and organization of scientific study as applied beyond the Rhine, and who were ready to devote themselves to their cherished plan of remodelling higher education in France.

Fort Ticonderoga, the key to the passage of Lakes George and Champlain to Canada, was surprised and, taken on the 10th of May by a small band under Colonel Ethan Allen, while Colonel Benedict Arnold headed an expedition through the Maine woods to effect the capture of Quebec, where Sir Guy Carleton commanded.