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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.
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To decorate with ribbon.
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To stripe or streak.
Examples of ribbon in a Sentence
The black ribbon of the demon was gone.
The star, badge and ribbon of the order are illustrated on Plate II., figs.
The rich maroon hue was mixed with a ribbon of black.
In Squier and Crehore's " Synchronograph " system " sine waves of current, instead of sharp " makes and breaks," or sharp reversals, are employed for transmitting signals, the waves being produced by an alternating-current dynamo, and regulated by means of a perforated paper ribbon, as in the Wheatstone automatic system.
The warm sun had eaten most of the snow from the roadway, leaving a contrasting black ribbon, in places still snow-patched from last night's covering.
When Destiny wanted to wear a ring like mommy, Carmen tied a yellow ribbon around her finger and made a bow of it on the top.
The receiving apparatus consisted of a multiplier, in the centre of which were pivoted one or two magnetic needles, which either indicated the message by the movement of an index or by striking two bells of different tone, or recorded it by making ink dots on a ribbon of paper.
The badge, star and ribbon of the knights grand cross are illustrated on Plate III., figs.
The ribbon is one blue between two crimson stripes.
It is glorious to behold this ribbon of water sparkling in the sun, the bare face of the pond full of glee and youth, as if it spoke the joy of the fishes within it, and of the sands on its shore.
It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well.
Sonya sat down and Natasha pinned the ribbon on differently.
Its members will be distinguished by a red ribbon worn across the shoulder, and the mayor of the city will wear a white belt as well.
In the earlier forms of instrument the record was made by embossing lines on a ribbon of paper by means of a sharp style fixed to one end of a lever, which carried at the other end the armature of an electromagnet.
Suppose, for instance, the paper ribbon to be soaked in a solution of iodide of potassium and a light contact spring made to press continuously on its surface as it is pulled forward by the mechanism.
The name was imported from Ireland, where it had been used to designate one of the Ribbon societies that devoted its energies to intimidating and maltreating process servers and the agents of landlords, and whose greatest activity was between 1835 and 1855.
In addition to these, there exists in the interior of the dorsal valve of some genera a variously modified, thin, calcified, ribbon-shaped skeleton for the support of the ciliated arms, and the form of this ribbon serves as one of the chief generic characters of both recent and extinct forms. This brachial skeleton is more developed in some genera than in others.
This fashion continued until, in the 17th century, the sleeves became much fuller; but it was not till the, 8th century that they developed into the familiar exaggerated balloon shape, confined at the wrists by a ribbon, beyond which a ruffle projected.
The ribbon by which the wrist is confined is black, except when convocation robes are worn, when it is scarlet.
Woollen and linen goods are manufactured, and there are ribbon looms and tanneries in the town, and large iron works in the neighbourhood.
The design is generally framed at the outset with a ribbon of thin metal, precisely after the manner of ordinary cloisonn ware.
The reverse motion of P automatically moves the paper ribbon forward, ready to - 20 receive the next impression.
Here occurred the famous incident of the theft of a ribbon, of which he accused a girl fellow-servant.
On the 12th of December 1796, he received the ribbon of St Anne and a rich estate at Gruzina in the government of Novgorod, the only substantial gift ever accepted by him during the whole of his career.
These rollers present the silk to a set of fallers (steel bars into which are fixed fine steel pins), which carry forward the silk to another pair of rollers, which draw the silk through the pins of the fallers and present it to the rollers in a continuous way, thus forming a ribbon of silk called a " sliver."
In 1840 he became pattern-designer to a ribbon manufacturer at Coventry; but weary of ill-paid exile he returned the same year to Boulogne, and in 1841 took his degree at Douai.
The ribbon is red edged with blue.
The ribbon is deep red.
He noticed the change in the little princess' dress, Mademoiselle Bourienne's ribbon, Princess Mary's unbecoming coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne's and Anatole's smiles, and the loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation.
You will recognize them by the white ribbon they will wear on the left arm.
Carmen tied Destiny's curls with a yellow ribbon.
It was pointless to buy a bikini and wear it only once, so Carmen bought a black push-up bra and some skimpy black briefs trimmed with black ribbon.
Pulling her hair into a pony tail, she secured it with a blue ribbon.
A and A' carry two light vertical rods S, M, the one as much in front of the other as there is space between two successive holes in the perforated ribbon.
A similar equalizing effect is obtained by the use of flat rope and reel, the rope winding on itself like a ribbon.
The " commanders " wear the badge from a ribbon round the neck, and the star on the breast; the " companions " have no star and wear the badge from a narrow ribbon at the button-hole.
The ribbon is watered red.
The ribbon is white with red edging.
The Napoleonic form of the grand cross and ribbon is illustrated on Plate IV, fig.
The badge of the order was a white Maltese cross decorated in gold, with the gold lilies of France at the angles, in the centre a white dove with wings outstretched, the ribbon was sky blue (cordon bleu).
The badge is a gold oval bearing in gold a crowned and collared bear on a crenellated wall; below the ring by which the badge is attached to the ribbon is a shield with the arms of the house of Anhalt, on the reverse those of the house of Ascania.
The ribbon is green with two red stripes.
The ribbon is orange with silver edging.
The badge is a white cross resting on a green laurel wreath, the ribbon is red with a yellow stripe bordered with white.
The ribbon is green with two orange stripes.
The ribbon is deep red bordered with yellow.
The ribbon is crimson.
An illustration of the badge of the order with ribbon is given on Plate IV.
The ribbon is white with two orange stripes.
The ribbon is black with a silver stripe at the edges.