Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A band worn around the upper arm, often as identification or as a symbol of mourning or protest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of crooked iron attached to a rail or to a stone block fixed against the walls in barrack-rooms, to retain the soldiers' muskets when not in use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a band worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning.
- noun a band worn around the upper arm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A band worn around the arm
usually tosymbolize protest ormourning . - noun An
inflatable band worn round the arms to keepafloat in water
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a band worn around the arm for decoration
- noun a band worn around the upper arm
- noun worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning
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Examples
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Sad, really, but it seems to be all armband is capable of.
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Okay, while armband is off researching the basics of written English, shall we move on?
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Poor armband is so reading-challenged that he must depend on the headline to get all his information.
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Poor armband is so reading-challenged that he must depend on the headline to get all his information.
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Okay, while armband is off researching the basics of written English, shall we move on?
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But in Sanderson’s world, it’s all about balance, as the energy stored in each armband is finite, and in some cases can take many years to be stored up, but can be used and extinguished in a matter of minutes.
“The Well of Ascension: Mistborn Book 2″ by Brandon Sanderson (Tor, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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February 26th, 2010 at 11: 51 am ralph the wonder llama, official spokesllama for the Llama Milk Council® says: belaccifer lacca, maybe armband is pushing the idea that it wasn’t necessarily Carter’s criticisms that made Bush’s life miserable.
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It doesn’t need to be expensive camo imported from somewhere — a simple strip of colored cloth worn as a headband or armband is sufficient to make civilians safer by identify the fighters among them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Clandestine Military Operations 2010
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But in Sanderson’s world, it’s all about balance, as the energy stored in each armband is finite, and in some cases can take many years to be stored up, but can be used and extinguished in a matter of minutes.
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"According to Kangia, the greasy-haired one with the armband was a thoroughly nasty piece of work, constantly ranting on about Hitler and treating the Greenlanders like dogs," Macleod said.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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