band
♦♦ band /b'ænd/ (bands banding banded)
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A band is a small group of musicians who play popular music such as jazz, rock, or pop.
He was a drummer in a rock band...
Local bands provide music for dancing.
see also one-man band
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A band is a group of musicians who play brass and percussion instruments.
Bands played German marches.
see also brass band
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A band of people is a group of people who have joined together because they share an interest or belief.
Bands of government soldiers, rebels and just plain criminals have been roaming some neighborhoods.
...a small but growing band of Japanese companies taking their first steps into American publishing.
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A band is a flat, narrow strip of cloth which you wear round your head or wrists, or which forms part of a piece of clothing.
Almost all hospitals use a wrist-band of some kind with your name and details on it.
see also armband, hatband,
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A band is a strip of something such as colour, light, land, or cloth which contrasts with the areas on either side of it.
...bands of natural vegetation between strips of crops...
A band of light glowed in the space between floor and door.
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A band is a strip or loop of metal or other strong material which strengthens something, or which holds several things together.
Surgeons placed a metal band around the knee cap to help it knit back together.
...a strong band of flat muscle tissue.
see also elastic band, rubber band
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A band is a range of numbers or values within a system of measurement.
...a new tax band of 20p in the pound on the first £2,000 of taxable income.
see also waveband
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see also wedding bandband together
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If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
Women banded together to protect each other...big band (big bands)
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A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.boy band (boy bands)
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A boy band is a band consisting of young men who sing pop music and dance. Boy bands are especially popular with teenage girls.brass band (brass bands)
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A brass band is a band that is made up of brass and percussion instruments.elas|tic band (elastic bands)
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An elastic band is a thin circle of very stretchy rubber that you can put around things in order to hold them together. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use rubber band)
= rubber bandgirl band (girl bands)
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A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.march|ing band (marching bands)
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A marching band is a group of musicians who play music as they march along the street or march as part of a ceremony.one-man band (one-man bands)
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A one-man band is a street entertainer who wears and plays a lot of different instruments at the same time.rub|ber band (rubber bands)
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A rubber band is a thin circle of very elastic rubber. You put it around things such as papers in order to keep them together.
= elastic bandsteel band (steel bands)
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A steel band is a band of people who play music on special metal drums. Steel bands started in the West Indies.trib|ute band (tribute bands)
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A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
...a Beatles tribute band, the Prefab Four.wed|ding band (wedding bands)
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A wedding band is the same as a wedding ring.
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A band is a small group of musicians who play popular music such as jazz, rock, or pop.
He was a drummer in a rock band...
Local bands provide music for dancing.
see also one-man band
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A band is a group of musicians who play brass and percussion instruments.
Bands played German marches.
see also brass band
3 [N-COUNT-COLL] with supp
A band of people is a group of people who have joined together because they share an interest or belief.
Bands of government soldiers, rebels and just plain criminals have been roaming some neighborhoods.
...a small but growing band of Japanese companies taking their first steps into American publishing.
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A band is a flat, narrow strip of cloth which you wear round your head or wrists, or which forms part of a piece of clothing.
Almost all hospitals use a wrist-band of some kind with your name and details on it.
see also armband, hatband,
5 [N-COUNT] with supp
A band is a strip of something such as colour, light, land, or cloth which contrasts with the areas on either side of it.
...bands of natural vegetation between strips of crops...
A band of light glowed in the space between floor and door.
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A band is a strip or loop of metal or other strong material which strengthens something, or which holds several things together.
Surgeons placed a metal band around the knee cap to help it knit back together.
...a strong band of flat muscle tissue.
see also elastic band, rubber band
7 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
A band is a range of numbers or values within a system of measurement.
...a new tax band of 20p in the pound on the first £2,000 of taxable income.
see also waveband
8
see also wedding bandband together
[PHRASAL VERB] V P
If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
Women banded together to protect each other...big band (big bands)
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A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.boy band (boy bands)
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A boy band is a band consisting of young men who sing pop music and dance. Boy bands are especially popular with teenage girls.brass band (brass bands)
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A brass band is a band that is made up of brass and percussion instruments.elas|tic band (elastic bands)
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An elastic band is a thin circle of very stretchy rubber that you can put around things in order to hold them together. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use rubber band)
= rubber bandgirl band (girl bands)
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A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.march|ing band (marching bands)
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A marching band is a group of musicians who play music as they march along the street or march as part of a ceremony.one-man band (one-man bands)
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A one-man band is a street entertainer who wears and plays a lot of different instruments at the same time.rub|ber band (rubber bands)
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A rubber band is a thin circle of very elastic rubber. You put it around things such as papers in order to keep them together.
= elastic bandsteel band (steel bands)
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A steel band is a band of people who play music on special metal drums. Steel bands started in the West Indies.trib|ute band (tribute bands)
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A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
...a Beatles tribute band, the Prefab Four.wed|ding band (wedding bands)
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A wedding band is the same as a wedding ring.