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(bănd) 
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band2 (bănd)
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v., band·ed, band·ing, bands. v.tr.
To assemble or unite in a group.
v.intr.
To form a group; unite: banded together for protection.
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- A thin strip of flexible material used to encircle and bind one object or to hold a number of objects together: a metal band around the bale of cotton.
- A strip or stripe that contrasts with something else in color, texture, or material.
- A narrow strip of fabric used to trim, finish, or reinforce articles of clothing.
- Something that constrains or binds morally or legally: the bands of marriage and family.
- A simple ungrooved ring, especially a wedding ring.
- A neckband or collar.
- bands The two strips hanging from the front of a collar as part of the dress of certain clerics, scholars, and lawyers.
- A high collar popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Biology. A chromatically, structurally, or functionally differentiated strip or stripe in or on an organism.
- Anatomy. A cordlike tissue that connects or holds structures together.
- Physics.
- A specific range of wavelengths or frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.
- A range of very closely spaced electron energy levels in solids, the distribution and nature of which determine the electrical properties of a material.
- Any of the distinct grooves on a long-playing phonograph record that contains an individual selection or a separate section of a whole.
- A cord or strip across the back of a book to which the sheets or quires are attached.
- To tie, bind, or encircle with or as if with a band.
- To mark or identify with or as if with a band: a program to band migrating birds.
[Middle English bende (from Old English bend and and from Old French bande, bende , of Germanic origin) and Middle English bond, band (from Old Norse, band).]
band2 (bănd)
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- A group of people: a band of outlaws.
- A group of animals.
- Anthropology. A unit of social organization especially among hunter-gatherers, consisting of a usually small number of families living together cooperatively.
- Canadian. An aboriginal group officially recognized as an organized unit by the Canadian government. See Usage Note at First Nation.
- A group of musicians who perform as an ensemble.
v., band·ed, band·ing, bands. v.tr.
To assemble or unite in a group.
v.intr.
To form a group; unite: banded together for protection.
[Earlier bande, from Old French, banner, troop identified by its standard, of Germanic origin.]
SYNONYMS band, company, corps, party, troop, troupe. These nouns denote a group of individuals acting together for a common purpose: a band of thieves; a company of scientists; a corps of drummers; a party of tourists; a troop of students on a field trip; a troupe of actors.
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Anthropology
Type of human social organization consisting of a small number of nuclear families ( family) or related subgroups who are loosely organized for purposes of subsistence or security. Bands may be integrated into a larger community or tribe. They generally exist in sparsely populated areas and possess relatively simple technologies; their habitats range from the desert (Australian Aboriginals) to the African rainforest (Bambuti) to the North American tundra (Kaska). Bands may occasionally coalesce for broader community ceremonies, hunting, or warfare. hunting and gathering society; sociocultural evolution.
Music
Musical ensemble that generally excludes stringed instruments. Ensembles of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments originated in 15th-century Germany, taking on a particularly military role; these spread to France, Britain, and eventually the New World. In the 15th18th centuries, many European towns had town musicians, or waits, who performed especially for ceremonial occasions in wind bands often consisting primarily of shawms and sackbuts (trombones). In the 18th19th centuries, the English amateur brass band, largely consisting of the many newly developed brass instruments, took on the important nonmilitary function of representing organizations of all kinds. In the U.S., Patrick Gilmore's virtuoso band became famous in the mid-19th century; his greatest successor, John Philip Sousa, bequeathed a repertory of marches that has remained very popular. The big band, under leaders such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie, was central to American popular music in the 1930s and '40s. In the rock band, unlike most other bands, stringed instruments (electric guitars and electric bass) are paramount.
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band1
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- A long narrow piece, as of material: bandeau, fillet, strip, stripe. See matter.
- A closed plane curve everywhere equidistant from a fixed point or something shaped like this: circle, circuit, disk, gyre, ring, wheel. Archaic orb. See geometry.
verb
- To encircle with or as if with a band: begird, belt, cincture, compass, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, girt, ring. Archaic engird. See edge/center.
noun
- A number of individuals making up or considered a unit: array, batch, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, group, knot, lot, party, set. See group.
- A group of people acting together in a shared activity: company, corps, party, troop, troupe. See performing arts.
- An organized group of criminals, hoodlums, or wrongdoers: gang, pack, ring. Informal mob. See group.
verb
- To assemble or join in a group: combine, gang up, league, unite. See collect/distribute.
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An instrumental ensemble. At its loosest ‘band’ is used for any ensemble bigger than a chamber group. The word may originate in the medieval Latin bandum (‘banner’), the flag under which soldiers marched. Such origins seem to be reflected in its usage for a group of military musicians playing brass, woodwind and percussion instruments, ranging from a few fifes and drums to a full-scale military band. In 18th-century England ‘band’ was colloquially used for an orchestra. It is now often used for groups of related instruments, as in ‘brass band’, ‘wind band’, ‘horn band’ and ‘steel band’. Several types were named by function rather than constitution (dance band, jazz band, rehearsal band, stage band). The marching band, which originated in the USA, consists of woodwind and brass instruments, a large percussion section, drum majorettes, flag twirlers etc. Another modern development is the American symphonic wind band, which derives from such groups as Gilmore's Band (1859) and the US Marine Band under John Philip Sousa (1880-92).
1. Any horizontal flat member or molding or group of moldings projecting slightly from a wall plane and usually marking a division in the wall. Also called band molding or band course.
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2. A small, flat molding, broad, but of small projection, rectangular or slightly convex in profile, used to decorate a surface either as a continuous strip or formed into various shapes. Also called fillet, list
3. A fascia on the architrave of an entablature.
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A simple, small, autonomous family-based group, the definition of which may be no more than the fact that its members feel closely enough related not to intermarry. There are no specialized or formalized institutions or groups which can be recognized as economic, political, or religious, for the band itself is the organization that undertakes all roles. Leadership and the division of labour is usually by age or sex differentiations. This simple form of human social organization flourished for most of prehistory. Bands consist of a family or a series of families, usually ranging from 20 to 50 people.
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band, in music, a group of musicians playing principally on wind and percussion instruments, usually outdoors. Prior to the 18th cent., the term band was frequently applied in a generic sense to cover the combinations of instruments employed by kings and nobles. The term is also used for an ensemble of any one type of instrument, as brass band, wind band, marimba band. As town bands once provided music for social dancing, so do modern jazz and rock bands of numerous descriptions (see jazz, rock music).
Modern bands usually include the piccolo, flute, clarinet, oboe, English horn, bassoon, saxophone, cornet, trumpet, French horn, trombone, tuba, flügelhorn, euphonium, and various percussion instruments. Concert bands may add the cello, bass viol, and harp. The band repertory has traditionally included flourishes, marches, and music transcribed from other mediums.
Early Bands
Groupings of loud instruments characterized Saracen military bands participating in the Crusades. About 1300, similar groups, often including the shawm (a type of oboe), trumpet, and drum, appeared in the courts and towns of Europe. Town bands were manned by members of the watch and were integral to both the civic and social life of the community. These musicians participated in processions, dances, weddings, and feasts and provided incidental music for dramatic representations. During the 16th cent. the practice of playing instruments of the same family in consort (as in a shawm band) became popular, and new families of wind instruments added variety.
Evolution of Military and Concert Bands
As the town band began to decline at the end of the 17th cent., its official duties gradually shifted to the military band. A vestige of the extravagant, almost ritualistic affectations of the instrumentalists has survived in the routines of present-day drum majors and majorettes. For several centuries the general composition of the military band remained static, the fife and drum being associated with the infantry and the trumpet and kettledrum with the cavalry. France introduced the oboe in the latter half of the 17th cent., and a gradual merger with the full wind contingent of the town band ensued.
Important developments in instrument-making affected the composition of bands in the 19th cent. A Prussian bandmaster, Wilhelm Wieprecht (1802-72), introduced (c.1830) valve trumpets and horns into the military band. The saxhorns and saxophones of Adolphe Sax were incorporated into French military bands at midcentury. The sarrusophone was added in the 1860s, thus completing the instrumental ensemble that in most respects is known today.
Two outstanding European bands are the British Royal Artillery Band (founded 1762) and the band of the French Garde Républicaine, playing under that name since 1872. The U.S. Marine Band, founded in 1798, was the first important band in the United States and remains outstanding. The first U.S. band devoted exclusively to the presentation of public concerts was that of P. S. Gilmore, founded in 1859. His successor as America's leading bandmaster was John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). In 1911, Edwin Franko Goldman organized the Goldman Band, which continues to give outdoor concerts in New York City in the summer.
Bibliography
See R. F. Goldman, The Band's Music (1938) and The Concert Band (1946).
An instrumental ensemble, usually consisting of percussion, woodwind, and brass instruments, and excluding strings.
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Dreaming of participating in a band indicates a committed team player. A band can be a complex dream symbol, depending upon the dreamer's past associations.
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Refers to a frequency band (i.e., a range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation).
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the formation of distinct bands or zones in density-gradient centrifugation, column chromatography, or other separation techniques.
| band-pass filter, band width, band protein | |
| banding density, bar, barbital |
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banding
1. the act of encircling and binding with a thin strip of material.
2. in genetics, any of several techniques of staining chromosomes so that a characteristic pattern of transverse dark and light bands becomes visible, permitting identification of individual chromosome pairs.
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1. a cord, tie, chain, or metal collar by which something is bound. n 2. a contrasting strip or strip of material running through or along the edge of a material.
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categories related to 'band'
- Building and Machine Parts - band: ring or encircling strip, used esp. to bind something
- Electricity and Electronics - band: specific range of wavelengths or frequencies
- Structural and Decorative Elements - band: narrow decorative or binding strip
- Ornaments - band: narrow, decorative strip worn on arm, neck, or waist
- Jewelry - band: narrow ring encircling finger, usu. of precious metal
- Fasteners - band: thin, flat, encircling strip of material
- Practice, Techniques, Artifacts, and Tools - band: group of wandering people, usu. from one tribe and comparable in size to village
- Performance, Airplay, and the Recording Industry - band: group of musicians performing together
- Instrument Types and Groupings - band: group of musicians playing together
- Television Technology - band: group of communication frequencies, such as VHF or UHF
- Radios and Radio Technology - band: group of broadcasting frequencies, such as AM or FM
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Band may refer to:
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Clothing, jewelry, and accessories
- Bands (neckwear), two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics, and lawyers
- Bandolier or bandoleer, an ammunition belt
- Belt (clothing)
- Wedding ring or wedding band
- Strap, an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather
Science and technology
- Band (radio), a range of frequencies or wavelengths used in radio transmission and radar
- Rubber band, a short length of rubber and latex formed in the shape of a loop
- Möbius strip or Möbius band, an artifact with interesting topological features
- Band (mathematics), an idempotent semigroup
- Spectral bands, part of the optical spectra of polyatomic systems
- Metals and semiconductors
Medicine and biology
- Bird ringing, or bird banding, placing a numbered bands of metal on birds' legs for identification
- A group of animals, such as gorillas or coyotes
- Band cell, a type of white blood cell
- Protein band, see Coomassie
- Gastric band, a weight-control measure
Organizations
- Bands (Italian Army irregulars), military units once in the service of the Italian Regio Esercito
- Brazilian broadcast television network Rede Bandeirantes, nicknamed Band or Band Network
- The Band (wrestling), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order
Society and government
- Band society, a small group of humans in a simple form of society
- The primary unit of Native Americans in the United States
- Band (First Nations Canada), the primary unit of First Nations Government in Canada
People
Places
- Band, Mureş in Romania
- Bánd, a village in Hungary
Music
- Band, a company of musicians—see Musical ensemble
- Rock band
- Concert band
- School band, a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together
- Marching band, a group of performers that consist of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching (and possibly other movements) with their musical performance
- The Band, a Canadian-American rock and roll group
- The Band (album), its eponymous album released in 1969
See also
- All pages beginning with "Band"
- All pages with titles containing "Band"
- Banding (disambiguation)
- Drum and bugle corps (disambiguation)
- Stripe (disambiguation)
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Band
Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - bånd, elastik
v. tr. - binde sammen, bundte
idioms:
- band saw båndsav
2.
n. - band, orkester, bande
v. tr. - danne et band, samle et band
v. intr. - slutte sig sammen
idioms:
- band together forene, sammenslutte
Nederlands (Dutch)
band, ring, bende, streep, troep, muziekkorps, popgroep, bereik, nummer, kant, frequentieband, strepen, samenbinden, (zich) verenigen, ringen, naar niveau indelen
Français (French)
1.
n. - bande, ruban, anneau, plage
v. tr. - border, classer
idioms:
- band saw (Tech) scie à ruban
2.
n. - groupe, troupe, (Mus) orchestre, (Mil, etc) fanfare
v. tr. - se réunir, s'unir à un groupe
v. intr. - se réunir, se rassembler
idioms:
- band together se réunir ensemble
Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Band, Streifen, Ring
v. - mit einem Band versehen
idioms:
- band saw Bandsäge
2.
n. - Bande, Schar, Gruppe
v. - gruppieren
idioms:
- band together sich zusammentun
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ιμάντας, λωρίδα, λουράκι, ζώνη, ταινία, κορδέλα, τσέρκι, δέσιμο, περιβραχιόνιο, λαιμαριά, μπάντα, συγκρότημα, συμμορία, κλίκα, παρέα, συντροφιά, σιρίτι, γαλόνι, περιοχή, μπάντα (ραδιοσυχνοτήτων)
v. - δένω με ιμάντα, συνδέω, σχηματίζω ομάδα, συνασπίζομαι
idioms:
- band saw πριονοκορδέλα
- band together συνασπίζομαι
- head band (ενδυμ.) κεφαλόδεσμος
Italiano (Italian)
banda, anello, nastro, striscia, branco, orchestra
idioms:
- a one-man band orchestra a due sole mani
- band saw sega a nastro
- wave band banda di frequenza
Português (Portuguese)
n. - fita (f), bando (m), banda (f) de música, venda (f)
v. - atar, reunir, conspirar
idioms:
- a one-man band banda (f) de uma pessoa só
- band saw serra (f) de fita
- band together aliar-se
- brass band banda de metais (Mús.)
- elastic band elástico (m)
- rubber band elástico (m)
- wave band faixa (f) de ondas (Rád.)
Русский (Russian)
группа, банда, кольцо, лента, тесьма, оркестр
idioms:
- a one-man band человек-оркестр, все сам делает
- band saw ленточная пила
- band together собираться (на общую цель)
- brass band духовой оркестр
- elastic band резинка
- rubber band резинка
- wave band длина волны
Español (Spanish)
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n. - anillo, argolla, aro, cinta, faja, lista, tira
v. tr. - encintar, fajar, anillar, colocar bandas
idioms:
- band saw sierra de cinta
2.
n. - banda, pandilla, grupo, cuadrilla, banda de música, orquesta de jazz
v. tr. - agrupar, poner bandas
v. intr. - agruparse
idioms:
- band together colocar bandas
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - band, remsa, tejp, bård, linning, trupp, rand, skara, följe, musikkapell, drivrem, prästkrage, skärp, bälte
v. - sätta band på, förena sig
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 带, 细绳, 橡皮圈, 松紧带, 箍, 传送带, 传动带, 用带捆, 用条纹装饰, 为...装箍, 给...镶边
idioms:
- band saw 带锯
2. 伙, 群, 帮, 管乐队, 乐团, 乐队, 使聚集, 使团结, 聚集, 联合
idioms:
- band together 结合起来
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
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n. - 帶, 細繩, 橡皮圈, 鬆緊帶, 箍, 傳送帶, 傳動帶
v. tr. - 用帶捆, 用條紋裝飾, 為...裝箍, 給...鑲邊
idioms:
- band saw 帶鋸
2.
n. - 夥, 群, 幫, 管樂隊, 樂團, 樂隊
v. tr. - 使聚集, 使團結
v. intr. - 聚集, 聯合
idioms:
- band together 結合起來
한국어 (Korean)
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n. - 띠(밴드), 줄무늬
v. tr. - ~에 밴드를 매다, 줄무늬를 넣다
2.
n. - 떼, 음악대
v. tr. - ~을 결합시키다
v. intr. - 단결하다, 동맹하다
idioms:
- band together 동맹하다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ひも, バンド, たが, 一団, 一群, 縞, 楽団, 周波数帯, 一隊, 周波帯
v. - 団結させる, 団結する, ひもで縛る
idioms:
- a one-man band 辻音楽師, 独演会
- band saw 帯鋸
- band together 団結させる, 集める
- citizens' band 市民バンド
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) رباط, عصبه, زمرة, فرقه او جوقه موسيقيه (فعل) عصب, ربط
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - רצועה, פס, סרט, טבעת נישואים
v. tr. - שם רצועה על, סימן בפסים
n. - קבוצה, תזמורת, כנופייה, קטגוריה של פריטים, להקה, עדר, טווח של תדירויות גלים
v. tr. - הקימו קבוצה למטרה מסוימת
v. intr. - התארגנו בקבוצה למטרה מסוימת
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