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band
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?nd, IPA(key): /bænd/
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): [be?nd]
- Homophone: banned
- Rhymes: -ænd
Etymology 1
From Middle English band (also bond), from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *band?, *bandiz (“band, fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to tie, bind”). Middle English band reinforced by Old French bande. Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Danish bånd, Swedish band, Icelandic bandur (“band”). Related to bond, bind, bend.
Noun
band (plural bands)
- A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
- A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
- A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
- 1843, Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt
- band and gusset and seam
- 1843, Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt
- A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
- A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
- A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
- A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
- (architecture) A strip of decoration.
- A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
- In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
- That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
- A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
- (physics) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
- (obsolete) A bond.
- (obsolete) Pledge; security.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
- (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
- (medicine) Short for band cell.
- (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (bando)
- ? Korean: ?? (baendeu)
Translations
Verb
band (third-person singular simple present bands, present participle banding, simple past and past participle banded)
- (transitive) To fasten with a band.
- (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English band, from Old French bande, from Old Occitan banda (“regiment of troops”), perhaps from Frankish *bend, from Proto-Germanic *bandiz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to tie; bond, band”).
Noun
band (plural bands)
- A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
- A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
- A marching band.
- A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
- (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Cantonese: band (Chinglish)
- ? German: Band (colloquial)
- ? Japanese: ??? (bando)
- ? Korean: ?? (baendeu)
Translations
Verb
band (third-person singular simple present bands, present participle banding, simple past and past participle banded)
- (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Acts xxiii. 12
- Certain of the Jews banded together.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Acts xxiii. 12
- (transitive, education) To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.
Derived terms
- band together
Translations
Etymology 3
Verb
band
- (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of bind
See also
- band on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Band in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- band at OneLook Dictionary Search
- band in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- B-DNA, bDNA, bdna
Chinese
Etymology
Borrowed from English band.
Pronunciation
Noun
band
- (Cantonese) band (group of musicians) (Classifier: ???)
- ???????????Band [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 1987, ??? (Samuel Hui), ????Band
- kei4 mong6 faai3 faai3 sing4 wai4 sai3 gaai3 zeoi3 ging6 ge3 ben1 [Jyutping]
- Hoping that we'll quickly become the world's best band
???????????Band [Cantonese, simp.]- C???band??
- From: 1998, ???1 (Radio 1), Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus (HKCanCor)
- C: Bin1 deoi6 ben1 sin1?
A: Hai6 lo1. mou5 gong2 dou3 hai6 bin1 deoi6 ben1. [Jyutping] - C: So which band?
A: Indeed, they didn't mention which band.
A??????????band? [Cantonese, trad.]
C???band??
A??????????band? [Cantonese, simp.]- ??????????band???????????leader????band????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2010, TVB-J2, K-ON????? (K-On!), season 1, episode 2
- taan4 git3 taa1 go2 go3 tung1 soeng4 hai6 jat1 deoi6 ben1 ge3 zung1 sam1, biu2 jin2 go2 zan6 jiu3 hou2 ci5 li1 daa4 gam2 daai3 zyu6 deoi6 ben1, hou2 zi6 jin4 zau6 wui5 kap1 jan5 dou3-2 gun1 zung3 ge3 muk6 gwong1 gaa3 laa3. [Jyutping]
- The guitarist is usually the center of a band and has to lead the band during performances, and naturally becomes the audience's center of attention.
??????????band???????????leader????band????????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]
Synonyms
- ????? (yuèduì)
- ????? (z?hé)
References
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
Danish
Etymology 1
From English band.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?nd/, [b?æ?nd?]
Noun
band n (singular definite bandet, plural indefinite band or bands)
- band
Inflection
Derived terms
- funkband
Etymology 2
From Old Norse bann (“ban, curse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ban/, [b?æn?]
Noun
band n (singular definite bandet, not used in plural form)
- (rare) excommunication
Etymology 3
From bande (“swear, curse”), from Old Norse banna (“ban, curse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ban/, [b?æn?]
Noun
band c or n
- (rare) swear word
Verb
band
- imperative of bande
References
- “band” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch bant. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?nt/
- Hyphenation: band
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
band m (plural banden, diminutive bandje n)
- connection, liaison, bond (attachment, as in a relation)
- band (all English senses, above, except for group of musicians) (clarification of this definition is needed)
- tire/tyre (e.g. a car tyre)
- tape (magnetic tape, video tape)
- bank (the bank of a pool table)
- belt (martial arts belt)
- belt (conveyor belt)
- (physics) interval relating to frequency or wavelength in electromagnetic phenomena
- interval in the light spectrum
- range of energy levels in a solid state material
- ribbon
- bond, tie
Derived terms
Related terms
- verband
Descendants
- Afrikaans: band
- ? Indonesian: ban
Noun
band n (plural banden, diminutive bandje n)
- ribbon
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English band.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?nt/
- Hyphenation: band
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
band m (plural bands, diminutive bandje n)
- (music) band
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse band.
Noun
band n (genitive singular bands, plural bond)
- (a piece of) rope, string
- (figuratively, in the plural) ties, connection, relations
Declension
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Verb
band
- past of binden
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse band.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pant]
- Rhymes: -ant
Noun
band n (genitive singular bands, nominative plural bönd)
- (a piece of) string
- yarn
- (figuratively, in the plural) ties, connection, relations
- binding (of a book)
- (music) tie
- (music, slang) a musical band
Declension
Synonyms
- (band): hljómsveit f
Derived terms
- vera á bandi
- vinna á sitt band
- samband
- myndband
Related terms
- binda
- bundinn
Middle English
Alternative forms
- bande, bend
- bond, boond, bonde, bound
Etymology
From Old English bend, from Proto-Germanic *bandiz; vocalism is influenced by Old Norse band and Old French bande.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??nd/, /ba?nd/, /b?nd/, /band/
Noun
band (plural bandes)
- That which obstructs one's free will and free action; a restraint.
- A chain or other object used to restrain a captive.
- Captivity; the condition of being jailed.
- A compact, directive or binding pact (either reciprocal or from one unto another)
- A strip of a material used to tie or bind; a band:
- A rope or piece of twine used to tie or bind.
- A headband (a band that surrounds the head)
- A metal band that surrounds an object in order to strengthen it.
- (anatomy, rare) A joint or sinew.
- (heraldry, rare) A diagonal stripe or band.
- (rare) A strip of a material not used to tie or bind.
- Something used to join or connect; a link.
- (figuratively) A metaphorical connection or linkage.
- A collection or group of bound items.
Descendants
- English: band, bend
- Scots: band, bend
References
- “b??nd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-25.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- bånd (see this word for common usage)
Etymology
From English band (in this sense)
Noun
band n (definite singular bandet, indefinite plural band, definite plural banda or bandene)
- (music) a band; group of (rock) musicians
Derived terms
- rockeband
- samband
References
- “band” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse band, akin to English bond.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?nd/
Noun
band n (definite singular bandet, indefinite plural band, definite plural banda)
- a tape
- a ribbon
- a band
- a bond
- a leash (for a dog)
Derived terms
- samband
Etymology 2
From English band (music)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bænd/, /b?nd/
Noun
band n (definite singular bandet, indefinite plural band, definite plural banda)
- (music) a band
References
- “band” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *band?.
Noun
band n (genitive bands, plural b?nd)
- the act of binding or settling
- Antonym: lausn
- band, cord
- (plural only) bonds, fetters
- (plural only) bond, confederacy
- (plural only, poetic) the gods
Declension
Derived terms
- bandamaðr m (“confederate”)
- bandingi m (“prisoner”)
Related terms
- binda (“to bind”)
Descendants
References
- band in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
Swedish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse band.
Pronunciation
Noun
band n
- a band, a ribbon, a tape; a strip of material
- a band, an ensemble, an orchestra; group of musicians
- a band, a gang; band of robbers
- (physics) a band; a part of radio spectrum
- (physics) a band; a group of energy levels
- an audio tape or a video tape
- a cassette of audio or video tape
- a tie, a connection, a relation; from a person to another person or to a place
Declension
Derived terms
- halsband
- kasettband
Related terms
- banda
- bandning
Etymology 2
From English band
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?band/
Noun
band n
- (music) a band
Declension
Verb
band
- past tense of binda.
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English band.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /band/
Noun
band m (plural bandiau)
- band (group of musicians)
- band (strip of material)
- (physics) band
Derived terms
- band arian (“silver band”)
- band eang (“broadband”)
- band lastig (“elastic band”)
- band llydan (“broadband”)
- band pres (“brass band”)
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “band”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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stroke
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st???k/
- (General American) enPR: str?k, IPA(key): /st?o?k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
From Middle English stroke, strok, strak, from Old English str?c (“stroke”), from Proto-West Germanic *straik (“stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“stroke; to strike”). Cognate with Scots strak, strake, straik (“stroke, blow”), Middle Low German str?k (“stroke, trick, prank”), German Streich (“stroke”). In its British sense as a name for the slash ??/??, a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique originally employed in telegraphy.
Alternative forms
- stroak (obsolete)
Noun
stroke (plural strokes)
- An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface).
- A blow or hit.
- His hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree.
- He likewise entered and won in effect the whole kingdom of Naples itself, without striking stroke.
- A single movement with a tool.
- (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club. Also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
- (rowing) The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull.
- (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A thrust as of a piston or of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- An act of striking with a weapon
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.
- A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement, particularly:
- (Britain, typography) The slash, /.
- (Unicode, typography) The formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in A? and A?).
- (linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.
- A streak made with a brush.
- The time when a clock strikes.
- (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
- (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- (obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
- 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason
- At this one stroke the man look'd dead in law.
- 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason
- (rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
- (rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
- (professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
- (squash (sport)) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
- (obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
- in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound
- An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
- A throb or beat, as of the heart.
- Power; influence.
- 1551, Ralph Robynson More's Utopia
- where money beareth all the stroke
- He has a great stroke with the reader.
- 1551, Ralph Robynson More's Utopia
- (obsolete) Appetite.
- Lady Answ. God bless you, colonel, you have a good stroke with you.
Col: O, madam, formerly I could eat all, but now I leave nothing; I eat but one meal a day.
- Lady Answ. God bless you, colonel, you have a good stroke with you.
- In transactional analysis, a (generally positive) reaction to a person, fulfilling their needs or desires.
Synonyms
- (act of stroking, petting): caress
- (blow): blow, hit, beat
- (act of striking with a weapon): blow
- (single movement with a tool):
- (in golf):
- (in tennis):
- (in rowing):
- (in cricket): shot
- (thrust of a piston): push, thrust
- (made with a pen): stroke of the pen
- (made with a brush): brushstroke
- (symbol): See slash and strikethrough
- (time when a clock strikes): hour
- (particular style of swimming):
- (in medical sense): cerebrovascular accident, CVA
- (in wrestling):
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English stroken, straken, from Old English str?cian (“to stroke”), from Proto-West Germanic *straik?n (“to stroke, caress”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian strookje (“to stroke; caress”), West Frisian streakje (“to stroke; caress”), German Low German straken, strieken, strakeln, striekeln (“to stroke; caress; fondle”), German streicheln (“to stroke, fondle”).
Verb
stroke (third-person singular simple present strokes, present participle stroking, simple past and past participle stroked)
- (transitive) To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
- He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, / He stroked her cheeks.
- (transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
- (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
- (transitive, rowing) To row the stroke oar of.
Translations
See also
- strokes in the medical sense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “stroke”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- Kortes, Koster, Stoker, stoker, tokers, trokes
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- sztrók (equally correct since 2015)
Etymology
Borrowed from English stroke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?stro?k] (phonetic respelling: sztrók)
- Hyphenation: stroke
- Rhymes: -o?k
Noun
stroke (countable and uncountable, plural stroke-ok)
- (medicine) stroke (loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted or a particular case of it)
- Synonyms: agyvérzés, (archaic) agyszélh?dés, (folksy) gutaütés, (folksy) szélütés
Declension
References
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English *str?c, from Proto-West Germanic *straik.
Alternative forms
- strok, strake, strak, strook, strooke
Pronunciation
- (Northern ME, Early ME) IPA(key): /str??k/
- IPA(key): /str??k/
Noun
stroke (plural strokes)
- Any striking or hitting motion:
- A strike or hit from a weapon or instrument of torture}}
- A strike or hit from one's hands or other limbs
- A strike or hit from a tool against an object.
- The force of death; the origin or effect of one's demise.
- (Late Middle English) The feeling of an intense emotion or mood.
- (Late Middle English) The process of making a striking or hitting motion.
- A loud sound caused by weather (e.g. heavy rain)
- The result of a striking or hitting motion; a wound.
- (rare) A jerking or pulsing motion (e.g. a heartbeat)
Related terms
- stroken
Descendants
- English: stroke
- Scots: strake, straik, strak
References
- “str?k(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.
Etymology 2
From Old English str?cian, from Proto-West Germanic *straik?n.
Verb
stroke
- Alternative form of stroken
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
stroke
- past participle of stryka
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