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▪ I. banding, vbl. n.1|ˈbændɪŋ|
[f. band v.1]
1. Combining, joining in parties or factions; leaguing, confederation.
1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 190 Great banding then, began in Borough towne. c1645Howell Lett. (1650). I. 316 There being divers bandings, and factions at court. 1792Burke Let. Langrishe Wks. VI. 358 As little do I relish any bandings or associations for procuring it. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cvii. 20 The banding of man with man keeps down felonious action.
2. Formation of, or marking with, bands or stripes. banding-plane: a plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.
1739C. Labelye Piers Westm. Br. 41 Each of the Piers of the intended Bridge will be built..with the same Bandings, the same Cementing and Crampings, as if built upon dry Ground. 1859in Worcester. 1862Dana Man. Geol. 651 Its banding the stream with colder and warmer waters.
3. = band n.2 3.
1892Daily News 2 July 6/7 White sailor hat, with blue ribbon banding.
Add:4. The practice of dividing school pupils into broad categories according to ability, for teaching purposes.
1969Times 10 Dec. 2/4 The council's controversial plan..to start a system of ‘banding’ by academic ability to ensure that pupils from immigrant backgrounds are evenly distributed throughout the twelve schools. 1970Benn & Simon Half Way There ix. 148 ‘Banding’..can be regarded as a coarse, or modified form of streaming... Instead of dividing, let us say, a 12-form entry intake..into 12 streamed classes..the intake is divided into 2, or..3..broad bands of pupils..based on ‘ability’. 1974Times Educ. Suppl. 5 Apr. 4/5 Suggested options include retaining the present system of testing the children and placing them in three ability bands.., removing the testing and banding but leaving the rest of the system alone, or drawing a catchment area round each secondary school. 1976Economist 7 Feb. 14/1 The bill would..outlaw banding—the device used by some local education authorities..to try to provide schools with a fair share of bright children. 1991Guardian 26 Feb. (EG Suppl.) 22/4 Throughout its development, advocates of the new curriculum had argued that it would do away with the divisive banding which took place at the end of Year 9..as 14-year-olds were assigned to academic or vocational tracks.
5. Finance. The division of a continuous scale of earnings, assets, etc., into bands each of which correspond to particular financial conditions, esp. rates of interest or taxation.
1982Financial Times 30 Jan. 4/8 Its service charge is a straight 6 per cent with no banding, giving a true interest rate of 13.7 per cent. 1985Ibid. 15 Apr. 15/1 With the forthcoming earnings related ‘banding’ of contributions we appear to have invented an anomaly. 1990Economist 31 Mar. 27/2 This limited banding, which would need legislation, would be intended to respond to complaints about the unfairness of the lump-sum tax. 1991Ridge & Smith Local Taxation 42 The perennial problem with any system of banding is that if there are only a few bands then the payment will vary substantially between bands.
▪ II. † ˈbanding, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. band v.2 + -ing1.]
= bandying.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 45 There was a banding of such lookes. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. 138 Fortune..made him a Ball for her banding. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 327 The..bandings of opinions we had lately at Gresham college.
▪ III. ˈbanding, ppl. a.
[f. band v.1 + -ing2.]
Confederate, leaguing.
1602W. Watson Decacord. 62 This banding impudencie of the Jesuits. |