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Banding

noun

A stripe or stripes of contrasting color. Synonyms: band, stria, striation. "The black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"

An adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material. Synonyms: band, stripe.

Band

verb

(past & past part. banded; pres. part. banding)

Bind or tie together, as with a band.

Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify. Synonym: ring. "Band the geese to observe their migratory patterns"

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... olive-brown, the hairs tipped with orange, soft and silky; the under-parts from chin to vent and the outside of the thighs a rich orange; the tail is shorter than that of the next species, concolorous with the body above, but the banding of the hair is coarser, the apical black band being very broad, tipped with orange or white, generally the latter, the general hue being blackish washed with orange or white. In some the general hue is orange brown ...

— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

... scarcely cared even to buy of an Englishman. Moreover, the writer declared that foreigners had grown so numerous that, on a Sunday in the previous Lent, he had seen 600 strangers shooting together at the popinjay. He also insisted on the fact of the foreigners banding in fraternities, and clubbing together so large a fund, that they could overpower even ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... banding themselves into small companies or struggling alone, colored women have worked with might and main to improve the condition of their people. The necessity of systematizing their efforts and working on a larger scale became apparent not many years ago and they ...

— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... treasury. Two per cent is added to the purchase price of every payment made by buyers at auction, and if this does not amount to $1,930 per stand for the year, the auctioneer has to make up the difference. The poorer classes benefit largely by these sales, banding together to buy wholesale and then ...

— A Terminal Market System - New York's Most Urgent Need; Some Observations, Comments, - and Comparisons of European Markets • Mrs. Elmer Black

... those heroes walked, Now to the northward banding, where long coasts Shut in the sea of salt, now to the north, Accomplishing all quarters, journeyed they; The earth their altar of high sacrifice, Which these most patient feet did pace around ...

— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb

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