Definitions for banding

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banding band·ing

Spelling: [ban-ding]

IPA: /ˈbæn dɪŋ/

Banding is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in banding (abdginn).

Definitions for banding

noun

1. decorative inlay, as for bordering or paneling a piece, composed of strips of wood contrasting in grain or color with the principal wood of the surface.
2. a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop:
3. Music. a group of instrumentalists playing music of a specialized type: a musical group, usually employing brass, percussion, and often woodwind instruments, that plays especially for marching or open-air performances. big band. dance band.
4. a division of a nomadic tribe; a group of individuals who move and camp together and subsist by hunting and gathering.
5. a group of persons living outside the law:
6. a thin, flat strip of some material for binding, confining, trimming, protecting, etc.:
7. a fillet, belt, or strap:
8. a stripe, as of color or decorative work.
9. a strip of paper or other material serving as a label:
10. a plain or simply styled ring, without mounted gems or the like:
11. (on a long-playing phonograph record) one of a set of grooves in which sound has been recorded, separated from an adjacent set or sets by grooves without recorded sound.
12. bands, Geneva bands.
13. a flat collar commonly worn by men and women in the 17th century in western Europe.
14. Also called frequency band, wave band. Radio and Television. a specific range of frequencies, especially a set of radio frequencies, as HF, VHF, and UHF.
15. Also called energy band. Physics. a closely spaced group of energy levels of electrons in a solid.
16. Computers. one or more tracks or channels on a magnetic drum.
17. Dentistry. a strip of thin metal encircling a tooth, usually for anchoring an orthodontic apparatus.
18. Anatomy, Zoology. a ribbonlike or cordlike structure encircling, binding, or connecting a part or parts.
19. (in handbound books) one of several cords of hemp or flax handsewn across the back of the collated signatures of a book to provide added strength.

Idioms

1. to beat the band, Informal. energetically; abundantly:

verb (used with object)

1. to unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
2. to mark, decorate, or furnish with a band or bands.

verb (used without object)

1. to unite; confederate (often followed by together):

Origin of banding

First recorded in 1730-40; band² + -ing¹

Examples for banding

So as the American troops depart, the Iraqis are not banding together to defend their country against external threats.

(b) Quilting, banding, practice for curves and square corners.

Here is Lake Michigan, all green and mist-blown, banding the whole horizon.

Karl Rove and other big money men are banding together to try and stop Todd Akin types from scaring off voters.

Zealous populist patriots might pal around on principle, but banding together effectively is another matter.

"Here is your letter, cadet," said Frank, banding it back to him.

The banding of the legs was not for defence, it is common in civil costume.

The next step may have been the union of clans into tribes, and the next the banding of tribes into nations.

Some are donating blood for the injured, while others are banding into groups to keep the titushki away from their neighborhoods.

There is a banding together so to speak, which is becoming a real cultural phenomenon.