Band (noun)
A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
Band (noun)
A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
Band (noun)
A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
Band (noun)
A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
Band (noun)
A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
“sandstone with bands of shale”
Band (noun)
A strip of decoration.
Band (noun)
A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
Band (noun)
A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
Band (noun)
That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
Band (noun)
A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Band (noun)
Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
Band (noun)
A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Band (noun)
A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
“valence band;”
“conduction band”
Band (noun)
A bond.
Band (noun)
Pledge; security.
Band (noun)
A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird’s leg to identify it.
Band (noun)
Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
Band (noun)
A wad of money totaling $10K, held together by a band; money
Band (noun)
A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
Band (noun)
A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
Band (noun)
A marching band.
Band (noun)
A group of people loosely united for a common purpose a band of thieves.
Band (noun)
A small group of people living in a simple society.
Band (noun)
A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
Band (verb)
To fasten with a band.
Band (verb)
To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
Band (verb)
To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
Group (noun)
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
“there is a group of houses behind the hill;”
“he left town to join a Communist group”
“A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister’s proposals.”
Group (noun)
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
Group (noun)
An effective divisor on a curve.
Group (noun)
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
“Did you see the new jazz group?”
Group (noun)
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
Group (noun)
A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
Group (noun)
A functional group.
“Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.”
Group (noun)
A subset of a culture or of a society.
Group (noun)
An air force formation.
Group (noun)
A collection of formations or rock strata.
Group (noun)
A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
Group (noun)
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
Group (noun)
A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
Group (noun)
A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
Group (noun)
A commercial organization.
Group (verb)
To put together to form a group.
“group the dogs by hair colour”
Group (verb)
To come together to form a group.