Meaning & use
Bands
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Groups of musicians who perform together, or, more generally, thin strips of material used to bind, decorate, or hold things together.
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Several local bands played at the summer festival.
She sorted the mail into bundles secured with rubber bands.
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The musical and the material senses come from different roots that converged in English, both relating to the idea of things bound or grouped together.
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