Word Finder - bands

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A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

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A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.

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A strip of decoration.

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That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.

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A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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(in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

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A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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A group of energy levels in a solid state material.

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valence band;  conduction band

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A bond.

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Pledge; security.

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A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.

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Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc

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Short for band cell.

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(hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money

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To fasten with a band.

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To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).

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A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.

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A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.

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A marching band.

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A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).

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A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.

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A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.

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To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

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To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.

They'd make fine leg bands for us.

He would seem to have kept down to the coast until the headland of Ras Malan was reached, scattering before him the bands of Arabitae and Oritae who were the inhabitants of this well-provisioned tract.

He recognized the healer by the amount of bands winding around his arm.

Romagna had continued a prey to anarchy ever since 1831; the government organized armed bands called the Centurioni (descended from the earlier Sanfedisti), to terrorize the Liberals, while the secret societies continued their propaganda by deeds.

They chose their leader (eletto), marched into Brabant, and established themselves at Alost, where they were joined by other bands of mutineers.

Bands of guerrillas burned and plundered in some sections, and were not entirely suppressed until after the war was ended.

But the Philharmonic Society adopted the Diapason Normal in 1896, and the military bands have not gone with it.

In some communities they fell into the control of violent men and became simply bands of outlaws, dangerous even to the former members; and the anarchical aspects of the movement excited the North to vigorous condemnation.'

These collateral bundles are separated from one another by bands of conjunctive tissues called primary medullary rays, which may be quite narrow or of considerable width.

The high pitch remains only where there are large concert organs not yet lowered, and with the military and brass bands.

Its prevailing colour is chestnut-red, but the hinder part of the back is marked with broad, white, transverse bands on a dark ground.

During the month of August bands of fanatical rioters in various parts of the country made havoc in the churches and religious houses, wrecking the altars, smashing the images and pictures, and carrying off the sacred vessels and other treasures on which they could lay their hands.

The banded duiker (C. doriae) from West Africa is golden brown with black transverse bands on the back and loins.

But, in spite of the sympathy of the king, Dl e attempt to raise armed bands in Venetia had no success, and wa became clear that the foreigner could only be driven from the of ninsula by regular war.

Garibaldi joined the bands on the 23rd, but his ill-armed and ill-disciplined force was very inferior to his volunteers of 49, o and 66.

The parenchyma is often arranged in tangential bands between the layers of sievetubes and tracheal elements.

The fibres are frequently found in tangential bands between similar bands of tracheae or sieve-tubes.

The fibrous bands are generally formed towards the end of the years growth in thickness.

The formation of additional cambial cylinders or bands occurs in the most various families of Dicotyledons and in some Gymnosperms. They may arise in the pericycle or endocycle of the stele, in the cortex of the stem, or in the parenchyma of the secondary xylem or phloem.

They hunt the beasts of prey destructive to their flocks, and form armed bands for protection against marauders or for purposes of aggression on weaker sedentary neighbours.

The winter moth (Cheimatobia brumata) must be kept in check by putting greasy bands round the trunks from October till December or January, to catch the wingless females that crawl up and deposit their eggs in the cracks and crevices in the bark.

Scarcely a year passed in which new bands did not come to the Holy Land.

Many boys went to join army bands, several becoming bandmasters.

Dozsa's camp at Czegled was the centre of the jacquerie, and from thence he sent out his bands in every direction, pillaging and burning.

In the course of the summer he took the fortresses of Arad, Lippa and Vilagos; provided himself with guns and trained gunners; and one of his bands advanced to within five leagues of the capital.

The greater portion, however, of the numerous bands which visit the British Islands in autumn and winter doubtless come from the Continent - perhaps even from far to the eastward, since its range stretches across Asia to Japan, in which country it is as favourite a cage-bird as with us.

In the spring of 1349 bands of flagellants, perhaps from Hungary, began their propaganda in the south of Germany.

The throne was vacant, the great nobles quarrelling among themselves, the Catholic Poles in the Kremlin of Moscow, the Protestant Swedes in Novgorod, and enormous bands of brigands everywhere.

Prayer ends, as it began, the banquet; and we break up not in bands of brigands, nor in groups of vagabonds, nor do we burst out into debauchery..

The advantage of position being thus lost, the Spanish infantry rose and flung itself on the attackers; the landsknechts and the French bands were disordered by the fury of the counterstroke, being unaccustomed to deal with the swift, leaping, and crouching attack of swordsmen with bucklers.

Above this comes a row of circular shields, adorned with intricate arabesques, while bands and wreaths of lilies are everywhere scupltured on the windows, balconies, tambours and cornices, adding lightness to the fabric. The whole is raised on a platform 7 ft.

The wings, which are not capable of being folded, are usually transparent, but occasionally pigmented and adorned with coloured spots, blotches or bands; the wing-membrane, though sometimes clothed with minute hairs, seldom bears scales; the wing-veins, which are of great importance in the classification of Diptera, are usually few in number and chiefly longitudinal, there being a marked paucity of cross-veins.

The exterior is covered with black and white marble; the interior is of grey limestone with bands of a dark basaltic stone.

Apollonius, the commander of the Syrian garrison in Jerusalem, and Seron the commander of the army in Syria, came in turn against Judas and his bands and were defeated.

The greatest testimony to the work that earned for him the title of the "Father of American Methodism" was the growth of the denomination from a few scattered bands of about 300 converts and 4 preachers in 1771, to a thoroughly organized church of 214,000 members and more than 2000 ministers at his death, which occurred at Spottsylvania, Virginia, on the 31st of March 1816.

From the lower rim of the mitre at the back hang two bands (infulae), terminating in fringes.

The discovery of gold in1692-1695by bands of adventurers from the Sao Paulo settlements, led to every occupation and profession being abandoned in the mad rush for the new mines.

The chief modifications of this form are seen in the Mitraria larva of Ammochares with only the preoral band, which is much folded and which has provisional and long setae; the a.trochous larva, where the covering of cilia is uniform and not split into bands; and the polytrochous larva where there are several bands surrounding the body.

In the latter case, the numerous bands of muscle attaching the pharynx to the parietes have obliterated the regular partition by means of septa.

He joined the Pompeian party, and organized bands of mercenaries and gladiators to support the cause by public violence in opposition to P. Clodius, who gave similar support to the democratic cause.

In times of peace it is kept under, but during war, or whenever the bands of civil order are loosened, it becomes a cause of anxiety and a source of danger.

In the 10th century bands of Varangians or Russified Scandinavians sailed out of the Volga and coasted along the Caspian until they had doubled the Apsheron peninsula, when they landed and captured Barda, the chief town of Caucasian Albania.

The introvert is not a simple one with complete range both in eversion and introversion, but is arrested in introversion by the fibrous bands at c, and similarly in eversion by the fibrous bands at b.

Of his work some traces still remain in the richly sculptured bands built in at intervals along the 14th-century façade on the Rio, and part of the handsome larch-wood beams which formed the loggia of the piazzetta façade, still visible on the inner wall of the present loggia.

The Persians swept victoriously over Asia Minor and North Syria; not however without resistance on the part of Odenathus, who inflicted considerable losses on the bands returning home from the pillage of Antioch.

In small bands, and by divers ways, they streamed gradually southward and eastward, in a steady flow, throughout 1096.

These bands are due to molecular oscillations; Hartley suggests the carbon atoms to be rotating and forming alternately single and double linkages, the formation of three double links giving three bands, and of three single links another three; Baly and Collie, on the other hand, suggest the making and breaking of links between adjacent atoms, pointing out that there are seven combinations of one, two and three pairs of carbon atoms in the benzene molecule.

Examination of the absorption spectra of coloured compounds shows that certain groupings displace the absorption bands in one direction, and other groupings in the other.

These were mainly the bands of Greek condottieri, and even for their home-born troops Greek officers of renown were often engaged.

Clodius and Milo used bands of gladiators in their city riots, and this action on the part of the latter was approved by Cicero.