| 单词 |
banded |
| 释义 |
banded, ppl. a.|ˈbændɪd|
[f. band v. + -ed.]
1. Bound or fastened with, or as if with, a band.
1488Invent. in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 391 A bandit kist like a gardeviant. 1813Scott Rokeby iii. xxiv, These iron-banded chests to gain. 1852Tupper Prov. Philos. 409 One fortuitous grain might dislocate the banded universe.
2. Furnished with a band (or bands); in Her. with a band differing in colour from the garb.
1787Porny Heraldry 151 Three Blackamoors' Heads in Profile..banded Argent and Gules. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 581 Banded column, a column encircled with Bands, or annular rustics. 1837Marryat Dog-Fiend vii, A..gold-banded cocked hat. 1855Tennyson Maud i. viii, The snowy-banded..Delicate-handed priest.
3. a. Marked with bands or stripes; esp. in specific zoological and botanical names.
1814Mitchill Fishes N.Y. 427 Banded Mackerel. Scomber zonatus. 1823E. James Acct. Expedition Rocky Mts. I. 267 Crotalus horridus, Banded rattlesnake. 1836[see kangaroo n. 2]. a1842Tennyson Eleänore, The yellow-banded bees. 1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. 165 Grunter, one of the popular names of the fish called by naturalists the Banded Drum. 1870Amer. Naturalist IV. 102 The banded Sunfish (Bryttus Chaetodon). 1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxiii. 207 The Banded Dottrel (Charadrius bicinctus). 1949C. Longfield Dragonflies (ed. 2) 43 Agrion splendens, the Banded Agrion.
b. Geol. (See quots.)
1859Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XV. 193 Peculiar banded flints in the chalk..exhibit a central longitudinal axis or narrow stem, crossed on its middle third by numerous short parallel stripes of alternately light and dark flint. 1876Page Advd. Text-bk. Geol. xvii. 310 This banded appearance of a lias cliff. 1889Cent. Dict., Banded structure, the structure of a rock which is..divided into layers... The structure of a mineral made up of a series of layers.., as onyx. 1904Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 39/2 Banded Structure. This term is..coming into use in a more restricted sense, as descriptive of the parallel structures observable in gneisses.
4. Confederated, leagued, allied.
1601Bp. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse 61 This conspiracie thus banded. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 85 The banded Powers of Satan. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 274 The poet addressed himself to the banded enemies of France.
Add:5. Finance. Divided into bands (see *band v.1 5); spec. with reference to the accumulation of interest at different rates on different parts of the invested capital.
1987Times 7 Dec. 24/7 Proposals for a banded charge rather than a flat rate. 1989Financial Times 28 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) p. iii/3 You should ask whether your bank is offering you ‘tiered rates’—those paying the top rate of interest applicable on all your funds—or ‘banded rates’—those paying..the higher rates only on funds above a certain level. 1990Economist 31 Mar. 27/2 Other wheezes, like a more elaborately banded community charge, would be unthinkable under Mrs. Thatcher. |
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