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BANDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does banded mean?
• BANDED (adjective)
The adjective BANDED has 3 senses:
1. identified with a band especially around a leg
2. marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture
3. characterized by a band of especially white around the body
Familiarity information: BANDED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Identified with a band especially around a leg
Context example:
kept watch for the return of their banded birds
Antonym:
unbanded (not identified with a band)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture
Context example:
a banded rock
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Characterized by a band of especially white around the body
Context example:
banded cattle
Similar:
belted (having or provided with a belt)
Context examples
They banded themselves into a society which should never be dissolved until the work was done.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of the banded neutrophils to leukocytes in a biological specimen.
(Neutrophil Band Form to Leukocyte Ratio, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A measurement of the banded neutrophils in a biological specimen.
(Neutrophil Band Form Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Minnie laughed, and stroked her banded hair upon her temples, as her father put one of his fat fingers into the hand of the child she was dancing on the counter.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The researchers studied the venom composition, activities and toxicities of India’s neglected venomous snake species, including the monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia), Sochurek's saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus sochureki), banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus), and Sind krait, and found that the standard Indian antivenom had disturbing deficiencies.
(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)
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