Band vs Number - 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.
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, 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
(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
(countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer
(countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.
Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No'' or '' (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
Quantity.
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, title= * Francis Bacon
A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
(countable, informal) A telephone number.
* 2001 , E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project, Xulon Press, page 86:
* 2007 , Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, page 111:
(grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
(now, rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
* 1635 , (John Donne), The Triple Foole :
(countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
(countable, informal) A person
* 1968 , Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel, Little, Brown, page 40:
* 1988 , Erica Jong, Serenissima, Dell, page 214:
* 2005 , Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill & Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, page 207:
(countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one
* 2007 , Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems..., Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 134:
* 2007 , Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, page 46:
(slang, chiefly, US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
* 2009 , (Thomas Pynchon), Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, page 12:
(dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
To total or count; to amount to.
(numb)
Band is a related term of number.
As nouns the difference between band and number
is that band is tape while number is (countable) an abstract entity used to describe quantity.As a verb number is
to label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).As an adjective number is
(numb).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") * ----number
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.
- “[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number ?”
- When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number'?” Well, I don’t give my ' number to guys I don’t know.
- Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
- I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number ."
- "Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy little number , "your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]"
- He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.
- The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.
- "I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."
- Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number , put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips
- the latest number of a magazine
Synonyms
* (mathematical number) scalarHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* abundant number * algebraic number * binary number * cardinal number * complex number * decimal number * deficient number * do a number on * have someone's number * hexadecimal number * house number * hyperreal number * hypercomplex number * imaginary number * irrational number * meandric number * natural number * nice round number * number-cruncher * number-crunching * number field * number line * number one * number two * number theory * numberless * ordinal number * opposite number * perfect number * phone number * prime number * rational number * real number * round number * serial number * surreal number * take a number * telephone number * transcendental number * transfinite number * whole number * without number * (number)See also
* (grammatical numbers) singular,? dual,? trial,? quadral,? paucal,? pluralVerb
(en verb)- Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
- I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.