单词 | key band |
释义 | key bandn. 1. Originally: a band of leather, fabric, metal, etc., for carrying keys and keeping them together. Later chiefly: a band or strap holding the key for a locker at a swimming pool, sports centre, etc., typically worn round the wrist or ankle.figurative in quot. 1579. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > key > devices to prevent loss of keys key band1446 key-clogc1450 key chain1652 key ring1743 keyholder1837 1446 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 103 (MED) De j dos. kaybandes nigris, xvj d. 1474 in J. B. Sheppard Let. Bks. Monastery Christ Church Canterbury (1889) 272 (MED) Ye schall resseve by Bremse gooldsmith yowre powche and key-band with the keverynge. 1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church ii. i. f. 79 All these same keyes..she hath tied fast together with a paire of Keybands,..that is to say, Sophistrie or babling, wheron they are so fast bound, that without that Keyband it were vnpossible to make them tarie together. 1642 Inventory 14 Nov. in Great Reclothing Rural Eng. (1984) 188 21 lather key bandes at 14d per dossen. 1725 Let. in Antiquary (1905) Oct. 381/1 6 Keybands One Aggit Knife and Fork, [etc.]. 1889 in Damages to Schooner Rillie S. Derby in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (51st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 194) (1890) 5 Six ring keys, 90 cents... Forge on joint key band, at 70 cents. 1953 M. Heron tr. V. Moberg Fulfilment i. 13 Carrying in his hand a large bunch of keys, [he] goes..over to Margaret... I think my daughter will wear the mistress's key-band with honour. 1972 E. C. Tubb Cent. of Manikin viii. 130 Swimming to the edge of the pool, he climbed out and went into the canteen... He..bought two cups, using the notes he'd tucked under the key band. 2010 M. Garth Beginning of Unity i. 1 Kaila pulled on her swimming costume, turned the key in the locker door and looped the key band around her wrist. 2. Mechanics. A circular band or hoop that can be tightened around something by means of a key. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > devices for securing or uniting parts key1434 chevel-bolt1480 strop1573 gimbals1577 gimmals1598 gimmera1603 strap1620 bridle1667 key band1735 screw-joint1810 locking plate1812 safety pin1822 king bolt1839 square coupling1845 holding-down bolt1846 ball joint1849 pinholder1854 knuckle-joint1860 bayonet-joint1870 elbow1874 fox-key1874 split-pin1875 cotter-pin1881 elbow-joint1881 banjo-frame1888 holding-down pin1892 holding-down ring1899 feather1908 banjo union1922 1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 Engraving following p. 404 The Screw or Key-band to confine all close & tight. 1841 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 2 342 Key Bands for Tobacco Casks... What I claim as my invention is constructing the key band with a mortise plate in combination with the tongue and wedge. 1898 Ann. Rep. War Dept. (U.S.) : Rep. Chief Engineers Pt. 5 App. xx. 3313 The cylinder was then banded by two 1-inch by 4-inch wrought-iron key bands. 1907 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 58 209 The pipes laid on the trestle were joined by key bands of sheet iron about 4 in. wide, made so as to be quickly unjointed by driving out a key and slipping off the band. 3. Art and Architecture. A band or strip of key pattern forming a decorative border; a fret or meander. Cf. key pattern n. at key n.1 and adj. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] device1399 vicea1400 work?a1475 pattern1581 sleight1590 figure1609 design1670 wile1849 patterning1860 key band1881 maggot1925 1881 Liverpool Mercury 25 Oct. 4/1 (advt.) Bench with key band. 1902 W. G. Gulland Chinese Porcelain (ed. 2) I. 132 It is better that they should be called swastika diapers, to distinguish them from the key bands. 1973 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. C. 73 387 Right-facing key band at shoulder [of a vase]. 2004 R. Harman & J. Minnis Sheffield 150 The style is somewhere between stripped classical and moderne e.g. a Greek key band and flutes..combining with sculpture..of a flying female figure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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