Found 3 items, similar to Ribbon.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: ribbon ban, pita
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ribbon ribbon n 1: 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” [syn: thread] 2: an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event [syn: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm] 3: a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter [syn: typewriter ribbon] 4: notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ribbon Ribbon \Rib"bon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ribboned; p. pr. & vb. n. Ribboning.] To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons. [1913 Webster] Ribbon \Rib"bon\, n. [OE. riban, OF. riban, F. ruban, probably of German origin; cf. D. ringband collar, necklace, E. ring circle, and band.] [Written also riband, ribband.] 1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes. [1913 Webster] 2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons. [1913 Webster] 3. (Shipbuilding) Same as Rib-band. [1913 Webster] 4. pl. Driving reins. [Cant] --London Athen[ae]um. [1913 Webster] 5. (Her.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide. [1913 Webster] 6. (Spinning) A silver. [1913 Webster] Note: The blue ribbon, and The red ribbon, are phrases often used to designate the British orders of the Garter and of the Bath, respectively, the badges of which are suspended by ribbons of these colors. See Blue ribbon , under Blue. [1913 Webster] Ribbon fish. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish of the family Trachypterid[ae], especially the species of the genus Trachypterus, and the oarfish (Regelecus Banksii) of the North Atlantic, which is sometimes over twenty feet long. (b) The hairtail, or bladefish. (c) A small compressed marine fish of the genus Cepola, having a long, slender, tapering tail. The European species (Cepola rubescens) is light red throughout. Called also band fish. Ribbon grass (Bot.), a variety of reed canary grass having the leaves stripped with green and white; -- called also Lady's garters. See Reed grass, under Reed. Ribbon seal (Zo["o]l.), a North Pacific seal (Histriophoca fasciata ). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously banded and striped with yellowish white. Ribbon snake (Zo["o]l.), a common North American snake (Eutainia saurita). It is conspicuously striped with bright yellow and dark brown. Ribbon Society, a society in Ireland, founded in the early part of the 19th century in antagonism to the Orangemen. It afterwards became an organization of tennant farmers banded together to prevent eviction by landlords. It took its name from the green ribbon worn by members as a badge. Ribborn worm. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A tapeworm. (b) A nemertean. [1913 Webster]