RIBBON
\ɹˈɪbən], \ɹˈɪbən], \ɹ_ˈɪ_b_ə_n]\
Definitions of RIBBON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
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any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a gray thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward"
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notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
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a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
By Princeton University
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an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
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any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a gray thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward"
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notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
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a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
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Same as Rib-band.
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Driving reins.
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A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
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A silver.
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To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
By Oddity Software
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A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
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Same as Rib-band.
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Driving reins.
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A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
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A silver.
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To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
By Noah Webster.
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A fine fabric, usually of silk, satin, or velvet, woven in a narrow strip with two selvages; a strip or shred; as, a curtain torn to ribbons.
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To ornament with ribbons.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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n. [French] A fillet of fine cloth, commonly of silk or satin;— a narrow strip or shred -a piece of silk worn as an ornament by women, or as a badge by members of masonic or other societies, or as part of the insignia of an order of knighthood; -pl. The reins or lines by which a horse is guided and held.
