Band

Noun

 * 1) A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
 * 2) A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
 * 3)  A part of radio spectrum.
 * 4)  A group of energy levels in a solid state material. Valence band, conduction band.
 * 5) A group of musicians, especially (a) wind and percussion players, or (b) rock musicians.
 * 6) A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; i.e. marching band.
 * 7) A group of people loosely united for a common purpose.
 * 8)  A small group of people living in a simple society.
 * 9)  A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.

Verb

 * 1) To fasten together with a band; fetter, tie.
 * 2)  To fasten an identifying band around (a bird's) leg.
 * 3)  To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

Adjectives for Band

 * (group) infuriated; angelic; cycling; alabaster; ruthless; scarlet; riotous; massed; melancholy; marauding; adverse; servile; devoted; encircling; colic; baleful; eager; doomed notorious; peaceful; full; unbroken; bloody; amiable;  swirling; murderous; numberless; resplendent; scattered; reckless chosen; shadowy; formidable; violent; apathetic; restless; defiant; eternal; itinerant; enthralling; wandering; fantastic sullen; glittering; expectant; valiant; considerable; predatory; snail-like; gallant mirth-breathing; heroic; enormous; mute; ghastly; scanty; boisterous; prying; mirthful; devoted; adventurous; ambitious; imperious; fairy; social; scattering; brazen nondescript; partisan; thin; doughty; fierce worn; insignificant; rival; small; well-armed; thundering; wild; howling; heretical shabby; unkempt; conspicuous; feeble;  mighty; unconquerable; inexhaustible; laborious; invading; brave.
 * (fetter) ring-stacked; quivered; artful; swaddling; flexible; iridescent; unrelieved; restraining; metallic.
 * (company) aimless; diminished; detached; ferocious; foraging; gladsome; hunted; hapless; march-worn; pillaging; rapine; rollicking; straggling; vandalistic; victorious.
 * (instrumental) tuneful; stirring; gorgeously-arrayed; regimental; swing; jazz; competent.

Verbs for Band

 * (company) arm; associate with—; attach to—; banish from—; bind in a holy—; captain—;collect—; compose—; disperse—; divide into—s; enlist in—; muster—; scatter—; summon—; unite in—; wander in—; —attacks; —invades; —pillages; —plunders; —pursues; —roves; —shrinks.
 * (fetter) break asunder the—s; cancel—s; chain in —s; dissolve—; link in —s; release from—s; rend —s; strengthen —s; twist —s; untie —s; untwine —s; weaken—; —s bind; —s encircle; —s fetter; —s shackle.
 * (instrumental) assemble—; compose—; conduct—; engage—; group—; maintain—; organize—; pitch—; strike up—; supervise—; —arouses; — blares; —blasts on; —encourages; —harmonizes; —honors; —marches; —parades; —performs; —renders ; —serenades; — toots; —troops.

Derived terms

 * bandless
 * elastic band
 * gum band
 * lacquer band
 * rubber band
 * band together


 * brass band
 * jug band
 * marching band