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an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
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Band \Band\ (b[a^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Banding}.] 1. To bind or tie with a band.
2. To mark with a band.
3. To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. ``Banded against his throne.'' --Milton.
{Banded architrave}, {Banded pier}, {Banded shaft}, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, shaft, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.
banding \banding\ n. A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.
Syn: band, stripe. [WordNet 1.5]
A few giant investors who took a recent pounding in the junk-bond market are banding together to cry foul.
Some publishers are banding together to offer group ad buys to woo national advertisers.
By banding together last year, four of the smaller fry recognised as much.
The photograph also shows hints of similar banding around the north pole, said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Idex, which went public in 1989, makes products such as pumps, lubrication systems and banding and clamping devices for a variety of industries.
The valuation register will be available for inspection in the autumn, but local authorities are under no obligation to notify homeowners of their banding before the issuing of the first council tax bills next spring.
Several industry groups including the IMA and San Francisco's Multimedia Developers Group are banding together in an effort to get the patent overturned. Compton's, however, is determined to assert its patent rights.
But a growing number of small-business owners are banding together in self-help groups to talk out their problems, often with the assistance of specialist firms.
In Iowa, little towns struggling to pay for police protection or individual schools are banding together in "clusters" that share the costs.
A recent study of 95 urban working-class families showed how families were banding together to cushion the blow of the crisis.