Band vs Covey - What's the difference?
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A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
# A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
#* , chapter=10
, title= # A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
#* 1843 , (Thomas Hood), (The Song of the Shirt)
# A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
# A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
(label) A strip of decoration.
# A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
# In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
(label) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
(label) A part of the radio spectrum.
(label) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
(obsolete) A bond.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) Pledge; security.
A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
To fasten with a band.
(ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
A group of musicians, especially (a) wind and percussion players, or (b) rock musicians.
A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; i.e. marching band.
A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
(anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
(Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
* Bible, Acts xxiii. 12
A group of 8-12 (or more) quail. See gaggle, host, flock.
A brood of partridges, grouse, etc.
A party or group (of persons or things).
* 1906 , O. Henry,
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 736
To brood; to incubate.
* Holland
* 1869 , Florida. Commissioner of Lands and Immigration, Florida: Its Climate, Soil, and Productions (page 108)
(British, slang, dated) A man.
* 1846 , Justin Jones, The prince and the queen; or, Scenes in high life
* 1850 , Waldo Howard, The mistake of a life-time, or, The robber of the Rhine (page 140)
* 1851 , William Thomas Moncrieff, Selections from the dramatic works of William T. Moncrieff
Band is a related term of covey.
As nouns the difference between band and covey
is that band is tape while covey is a group of 8-12 (or more) quail see gaggle, host, flock or covey can be (british|slang|dated) a man.As a verb covey is
to brood; to incubate.band
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) band (also bond), from (etyl) beand, .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}
- band and gusset and seam
- to join in Hymen's bands
- thy oath and band
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* bandless * elastic band * gum band * lacquer band * rubber band * smart band * wedding bandVerb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) band, from (etyl) bande, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
Derived terms
* band rotunda * bandstand * brass band * jug band * marching bandDescendants
* German (colloquial, "Denglish"):Verb
(en verb)- Certain of the Jews banded together.
Derived terms
* band togetherSee also
* (wikipedia "band") * ----covey
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia covey) (en noun)- The store is on a corner about which coveys of ragged-plumed, hilarious children play and become candidates for the cough drops and soothing syrups that wait for them inside.
- A covey of grey soldiers clanked down the platform at the double with their equipment and embarked, but in absolute silence, which seemed to them very singular.
Verb
(en verb)- [Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch.
- There is a duck called the raft duck, because it is so numerous, coveying together in "whole rafts."
References
* 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- 'Pooh!' said he, 'you are as easily wounded as an unfledged dove — don't mind what an old covey like me says — I understand it all.'
- There vas an old covey as lived in Wapping, at the time I'm telling you of, who vas connected vith us by ties of common interest.
- I don't know what would become of these here young chaps, if it wasn't for such careful old coveys as we are—