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A narrow diminutive of the bend, thinner than a bendlet.
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A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework.
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A ribbon.
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A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
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An awareness ribbon.
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An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
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A narrow strip or shred.
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a steel or magnesium ribbon
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A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
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A watchspring.
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A bandsaw.
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(in the plural) Reins for a horse.
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A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
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(spinning) A sliver.
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A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
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A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
Examples of riband in a Sentence
In January 1725, on the revival of the Bath, the red riband was offered to him, but was declined.
He aspired to the role of a politician, and has left a memorable example of genius degraded to servility for the sake of a riband and a title.
On this account the fibres of tussur or tussore silk tend to split up into fine fibrillae under the various preparatory processes in manufacturing, and its riband structure is the cause of the glassy lustre peculiar to the woven and finished fibres.
In optics, the term caustic is given to the envelope of luminous rays after reflection or refraction; in the first case the envelope is termed a catacaustic, in the second a diacaustic. Catacaustics are to be observed as bright curves when light is allowed to fall upon a polished riband of steel, such as a watch-spring, placed on a table, and by varying the form of the spring and moving the source of light, a variety of patterns may be obtained.
Even more thrilling is the battle for the blue riband Post 1989 title.
I had a fine black silk hat band, tied with white love riband And a pair of white gloves.
He wore a black surtout with a velvet collar, and bore eye-glasses suspended with a riband.
King 's had a hard draw in the blue riband Championship eights event, the Queen Mother Cup.
The winner of the blue riband award Training Company of the Year went to SmartForce.
An Orthodox bishop, vested for the holy liturgy, wears over his cassock - (i) the rnxcipcov, or alb (q.v.); the E7nrpay,Acov, or stole (q.v.); (3) the a narrow stuff girdle clasped behind, which holds together the two vestments above named; (4) the E7 n, uaviexa, liturgical cuffs, corresponding, possibly, to the pontifical gloves of the West;' (5) the i 7rtyovarcov, a stiff lozengeshaped piece of stuff hanging at the right side by a piece of riband from the girdle or attached to the o-AKKos, the equivalent of the Western maniple (q.v.); (6) the like the Western dalmatic (q.v.), worn instead of the 4acv6Acov, or chasuble; (7) the c?µocp6pcov, the equivalent of the Western pallium (q.v.).