<noun.object> a mere ribbon of land the lighted ribbon of traffic from the air the road was a grey thread a thread of smoke climbed upward
an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
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a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
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notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
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Ribbon \Rib"bon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ribboned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ribboning}.] To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
Ribbon \Rib"bon\, n. [OE. riban, OF. riban, F. ruban, probably of German origin; cf. D. ringband collar, necklace, E. ring circle, and band.] [Written also {riband}, {ribband}.] 1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.
2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
3. (Shipbuilding) Same as {Rib-band}.
4. pl. Driving reins. [Cant] --London Athen[ae]um.
5. (Her.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
6. (Spinning) A silver.
Note: The blue ribbon, and The red ribbon, are phrases often used to designate the British orders of the Garter and of the Bath, respectively, the badges of which are suspended by ribbons of these colors. See {Blue ribbon}, under {Blue}.
{Ribbon fish}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish of the family {Trachypterid[ae]}, especially the species of the genus {Trachypterus}, and the oarfish ({Regelecus Banksii}) of the North Atlantic, which is sometimes over twenty feet long. (b) The hairtail, or bladefish. (c) A small compressed marine fish of the genus {Cepola}, having a long, slender, tapering tail. The European species ({Cepola rubescens}) is light red throughout. Called also {band fish}.
{Ribbon grass} (Bot.), a variety of reed canary grass having the leaves stripped with green and white; -- called also {Lady's garters}. See {Reed grass}, under {Reed}.
{Ribbon seal} (Zo["o]l.), a North Pacific seal ({Histriophoca fasciata}). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously banded and striped with yellowish white.
{Ribbon snake} (Zo["o]l.), a common North American snake ({Eutainia saurita}). It is conspicuously striped with bright yellow and dark brown.
{Ribbon Society}, a society in Ireland, founded in the early part of the 19th century in antagonism to the Orangemen. It afterwards became an organization of tennant farmers banded together to prevent eviction by landlords. It took its name from the green ribbon worn by members as a badge.
{Ribborn worm}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A tapeworm. (b) A nemertean.
"It seems to me we should get whatever information is available now rather than having it tied up with a ribbon in 90 days," he said.
Thousands of books were crammed on shelves, stacked on the floor and buried under desks _ everywhere except on a narrow ribbon of linoleum that snaked through the shop's two small rooms.
Her blond hair is tied with a blue ribbon, her gaze is serene, her posture correct and her hands folded demurely in front of her.
Fabric stores in Enterprise, Ala., and Dothan, Ala., have given away thousands of yards of yellow ribbon since troops from nearby Fort Rucker shipped out last week.
He played in his backyard with those chemicals." The protesters draped the fence of the Executive Mansion with red ribbon adorned with more than 5,000 letters to Cuomo, urging him to stop the Love Canal resettlement, planned for next year.
He planned to make the site of the Berlin Wall into a park - a green calm ribbon on the site of so much death and sacrifice.
After President Francois Mitterrand cut the ribbon at the inauguration ceremony and toured the collection, hundreds of people crowded in for a look.
Sally Stanton Rubsamen, the 1940 Rose Queen who dedicated the ribbon of concrete a half-century ago, recalled trips to school using successively longer parts of the newly completed surface.
In Kilroy's hometown of Santa Fe, Texas, a yellow ribbon ceremony had been scheduled for Wednesday to draw attention to his disappearance.
It includes a thin ribbon hugging the shore at Monmouth County.
They joined school board officials in cutting a ribbon at the new school.
By touching another button the VR traveller can grasp the ribbon and turn it in every direction.
Inscribed on the ribbon in bold gold lettering was the name "Rudolf Hess," and the words "Deutschland war sein Leben" (Germany was his life).
Those who lost relatives wore blue ribbon pins with the white bird symbol of the support group.
Champion market animals will be tested for drugs for the first time this week at the San Antonio Livestock Exposition, but no animal stands to lose a ribbon because of doping, officials said.
The good old days for Arthur F. (Artie) Long were the 1960s, before blue ribbon investment banks and law firms flooded into the mergers and acquisitions advisory business.
After Bush's 10-minute speech, a military aide brought a box containing the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Bush draped around Walesa's neck the gold medal, dangling from a blue ribbon.
Mallick, a Fort Worth real estate developer, first met Wright in 1962 or 1963 when the congressman cut the ribbon opening a shopping center in the state's Tarrant County, the report said.
CLINKING champagne glasses, paeans to capitalism and a row of women in folk costume were the main feature at yesterday's ribbon cutting ceremony at the Lithuanian Stock Exchange in Vilnius.
With an occasional tune-up and ribbon replacement, it appears fit for additional extended service.
He wore a purple ribbon and a sticker saying, "Execute justice, not people." Alabama death row inmates clanged the bars of their cells and yelled as the execution time drew near.
The map showed soldiers in only a narrow ribbon through the remaining five provinces.
And I am very glad that we have lived to see this day," she said, touching the tiny red, white and blue ribbon pinned to her coat and seen on nearly everyone in Prague in these last dramatic weeks.
On the wall outside Mr. Akpinar's office in Bursa hangs a photo of Mr. Ozal cutting the ribbon to open the $5 million Penta plant two years ago.
"I don't know," said Scott Sarvis, 4, when asked if he was happy that his cricket won a blue ribbon. "I thought I would get a toy." Folks in this Plains town say they're nuttier than people in Georgia.
The women go from fluffy white to full, bordered skirts that look like ribbon candy when swirled high.
On Wednesday evening, Langston tied a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of her home.
If Hank is an impostor, Ms. Shealy could lose her $28,000 prize and first-place ribbon.
The Ghinda front straddles the only road from Asmara to Massawa, a two-lane ribbon of asphalt stretching 62 miles.
Grasso is part of a blue ribbon panel convened by OTA to review its study of information technology in the securities markets.