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RIBBON
ribbon
(noun) notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
ribbon, typewriter ribbon
(noun) a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon
(noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
ribbon, thread
(noun) any long object resembling a thin line; “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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ribbon (countable and uncountable, plural ribbons)
A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
An awareness ribbon.
An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
A narrow strip or shred.
(cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
(shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband
(nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
A watchspring.
A bandsaw.
(slang, dated, in the plural) Reins for a horse.
(heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
(spinning) A sliver.
(journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
(computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
Verb
ribbon (third-person singular simple present ribbons, present participle ribboning, simple past and past participle ribboned)
(transitive) To decorate with ribbon.
Synonym: beribbon
(transitive) To stripe or streak.
Anagrams
• Robbin, robbin
Source: Wiktionary
Rib"bon, n. Etym: [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)
Definition: Same as Rib-band.
4. pl.
Definition: Driving reins. [Cant] London Athenæum.
5. (Her.)
Definition: A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
6. (Spinning)
Definition: 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. (Zoöl.) (a) Any elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish of the family Trachypteridæ, 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 (C. 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 (Zoöl.), a North Pacific seal (Histriophoca fasciata). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously banded and striped with yellowish white.
– Ribbon snake (Zoöl.), 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. (Zoöl.) (a) A tapeworm. (b) A nemertean.
Rib"bon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ribboned; p. pr. & vb. n. Ribboning.]
Definition: To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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