Word Meanings - BAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress. 6. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. "Band and gusset and seam."

Additional info about word: BAND

Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress. 6. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. "Band and gusset and seam." Hood. 7. A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. Shak. 8. A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments , and drums, or cymbals. (more info) band, OHG. bant, Goth. banti, Skr. bandha a binding, bandh to bind, for bhanda, bhandh, also to E. bend, bind. In sense 7, at least, it is fr. F. bande, from OHG. bant. Bind, v. t., and cf. Bend, Bond, 1st 1. A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter. Every one's bands were loosed. Acis xvi 26. A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc. In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts. 3. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie. "To join in Hymen's bands." Shak. 4. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries. 5. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BAND)

• Border
• Limit
• boundary
• brink
• rim
• verge
• brim
• edge
• edging
• band
• hem
• enclosure
• confine
• Corps
• Body
• regiment
• squadron
• troop
• company
• Crew
• Complement
• gang
• herd
• set
• miscellany
• horde
• swarm
• Knot
• Tie
• bond
• intricacy
• difficulty
• perplexity
• cluster
• collection
• group
• protuberance
• joint
• Ligament
• Bond
• bandage
• ligature
• brace
• strap
• girth

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BAND)

• Decline
• deviate
• revert
• depart
• recede
• return
• back
• retrocede

Related words: (words related to BAND)

• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• VERGER
  One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: -- An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. Strype. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• LIGATURE
  A curve or line connecting notes; a slur. (more info) 1. The act of binding. 2. Anything that binds; a band or bandage. A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage. A thread or wire
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• TROOPBIRD
  Any troupial.
• EDGELESS
  Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• ENCLOSURE
  Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.
• VERGETTE
  Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• HORDEIN
  A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• LEDGEMENT
  See LEDGMENT
• WEDGY
  Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.