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单词 band
释义 band
band1
 /band/,  n.  
  1. a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
  2.  Music.  
   a. a group of instrumentalists playing music of a specialized type: rock band; calypso band; mariachi band.
   b. a musical group, usually employing brass, percussion, and often woodwind instruments, that plays esp. for marching or open-air performances.
   c. See big band.
   d. See dance band.
  3. a division of a nomadic tribe; a group of individuals who move and camp together and subsist by hunting and gathering.
  4. a group of persons living outside the law: a renegade band.
  5. to beat the band, Informal. energetically; abundantly: It rained all day to beat the band.
  v.t.  
  6. to unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
  v.i.  
  7. to unite; confederate (often fol. by together): They banded together to oust the chairman.
 [1480-90; < MF bande < It banda; c. LL bandum < Gmc; akin to Goth bandwa standard, BAND2, BAND3, BEND1, BOND1]
 Syn. 1. gang, group; body; set; society, association, assembly. See company.
band2
 —bander,  n.   —bandless,  adj.  
 /band/,  n.  
  1. a thin, flat strip of some material for binding, confining, trimming, protecting, etc.: a band on each bunch of watercress.
  2. a fillet, belt, or strap: a band for the hair; a band for connecting pulleys.
  3. a stripe, as of color or decorative work.
  4. a strip of paper or other material serving as a label: a cigar band.
  5. a plain or simply styled ring, without mounted gems or the like: a thin gold band on his finger.
  6. (on a long-playing phonograph record) one of a set of grooves in which sound has been recorded, separated from an adjacent set or sets by grooves without recorded sound.
  7. bands. See Geneva bands.
  8. a flat collar commonly worn by men and women in the 17th century in western Europe.
  9. Also called frequency band, wave band. Radio and Television. a specific range of frequencies, esp. a set of radio frequencies, as HF, VHF, and UHF.
  10. Also called energy band. Physics. a closely spaced group of energy levels of electrons in a solid.
  11.  Computers.   one or more tracks or channels on a magnetic drum.
  12.  Dentistry.   a strip of thin metal encircling a tooth, usually for anchoring an orthodontic apparatus.
  13.  Anat.  ,  Zool.   a ribbonlike or cordlike structure encircling, binding, or connecting a part or parts.
  14. (in handbound books) one of several cords of hemp or flax handsewn across the back of the collated signatures of a book to provide added strength.
  v.t.  
  15. to mark, decorate, or furnish with a band or bands.
 [1480-90; < MF; OF bende < Gmc; cf. OHG binta fillet. See BIND, BAND1]
band3
 /band/, n. Archaic.
  1. Usually, bands. articles for binding the person or the limbs; shackles; manacles; fetters.
  2. an obligation; bond: the nuptial bands.
 [1100-50; late OE < ON band; c. OS, OFris band, OHG bant; akin to Skt bandha-. See BAND1]
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