band
verb/bænd/
/bænd/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they band | /bænd/ /bænd/ |
| he / she / it bands | /bændz/ /bændz/ |
| past simple banded | /ˈbændɪd/ /ˈbændɪd/ |
| past participle banded | /ˈbændɪd/ /ˈbændɪd/ |
| -ing form banding | /ˈbændɪŋ/ /ˈbændɪŋ/ |
- [usually passive] to put a band of a different colour or material around something
- be banded (+ adj.) Many insects are banded black and yellow.
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- [usually passive] (British English) to organize something into bands of price, income, etc.
- be banded Tax is banded according to income.
with colour/material
put into range
Word Originverb late Old English (in the sense of something that restrains), from Old Norse, reinforced in late Middle English by Old French bande, of Germanic origin; related to bind.
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