banding
decorative inlay, as for bordering or paneling a piece, composed of strips of wood contrasting in grain or color with the principal wood of the surface.
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Tameness, helpful when it comes to banding, makes these birds vulnerable to invasive predators.
A Caribbean island gets everyone involved in protecting beloved species | Anna Gibbs | September 27, 2022 | Science NewsDepending on the arrangement of the LEDs in the backlight, it can also result in a picture with unnatural banding or patchiness, especially around the edges.
I have always been mostly impressed with the Pixel cameras in past generations, even if the Pixel 4 did have a problem with light banding when shooting in most artificial light.
Google Pixel 6 Pro smartphone review: Android’s homegrown hero | Stan Horaczek | October 25, 2021 | Popular-ScienceShe hadn’t expected to see the curtains she designed, but after counting the swags and zooming in on the custom banding, she knew they were hers.
Presidents come and go, but these curtains are forever | Jura Koncius | February 1, 2021 | Washington PostIn 64 years of bird banding, Powdermill’s Avian Research Center has recorded fewer than 10 such birds.
This rare bird is male on one side and female on the other | Aayushi Pratap | October 6, 2020 | Science News
Zealous populist patriots might pal around on principle, but banding together effectively is another matter.
Elections Could Be the Beginning of the End for Europe | Tracy McNicoll, Nadette De Visser | May 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome are donating blood for the injured, while others are banding into groups to keep the titushki away from their neighborhoods.
There is a banding together so to speak, which is becoming a real cultural phenomenon.
But from within, it is in fact multiple societies, occasionally banding together but more often at war with one another.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israel’s Pragmatic Kingmaker | Jay Michaelson | October 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe story of high-altitude workers banding together to attack three men who apparently offended them defies expectations.
Shareholders also I am glad to observe are banding themselves together for the protection of their interests.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowThe banding is probably protective, as in the case of the tiger and the zebra, and renders the shell less visible.
Our British Snails | John William HorsleyThey stand about a yard apart, and banding their faces towards each other, kiss on the lips.
The Foundations (Fourth Series Plays) | John Galsworthybanding iron, clamps, bronzes, and every description of metal that was found were thrown into furnaces and melted down.
Cathedral Cities of Italy | William Wiehe CollinsThe aspect of the rock at this stage is that of a gneiss with rather indefinite banding.
British Dictionary definitions for banding
/ (ˈbændɪŋ) /
British the practice of grouping schoolchildren according to ability to ensure a balanced intake at different levels of ability to secondary school
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