Ribbon

Definition: Ribbon

Ribbon

Noun

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".

2. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.

3. A long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter.

4. Notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ribbon" was first used: sometime around 1325. (references)

Industry

Dream Interpretation

Mining

Public Administration

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Synonyms: Ribbon

Connection

Bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string; (filament).

Filament

Wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.

Strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.

Title

Decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one,s cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon; reward.

Crosswords: Ribbon

Rachel didn't have anything that I liked, but she had this Christmas ribbon, and I thought, 'All right, fine I'll be political (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Bitch-in-a-buzzsaw! I've heard some mighty burps in my time, but that's the blue ribbon baby (Dreamcatcher; writing credit: William Goldman)

Hit her with a drop top with the ribbon (Gettin' Jiggy Wit It; performing artist: Will Smith)

Boo Ribbon Winner (1954)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Blue Ribbon Mutt (1920)

A Bit of Blue Ribbon (1913)

The Lost Ribbon (1911)

Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree (performing artist: Tony Orlando & Dawn)

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Books

• Ribbon Trims (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Blue Ribbon Bank Report (reference)

• Blue Ribbon Crosswords (reference)

• Blue Ribbon Fill It Ins Jumbo (reference)

• Blue Ribbon Word Find (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (reference)

• Blue Ribbon Veggies (reference)

• Frida Kahlo - A Ribbon Around A Bomb (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Blue Ribbon Banjo (reference)

• Blue Ribbon Bluegrass (reference)

• Blue Ribbon Fiddle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 1-pack Fabric Ribbon for Lx800 810p/fx 850/870/t1000 & Lx300 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Ottomanelli's Chocolate Heart Shaped Ribbon Cake (reference)

• Ribbon Poinsettia Dinnerware Set (16-pc.) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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The Parana River delta is a huge forested marshland about 32km northeast of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The area is a very popular tour destination. Guided boat tours can be taken into this vast labyrinth of marsh and trees. The Parana River delta is one of the world's greatest bird-watching destinations. This image highlights the striking contrast between dense forest and wetland marshes, and the deep blue ribbon of the Parana River. Credit: NASA.

Ribbon seal - Phoca fasciata. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Getting ready to tag a ribbon seal - Phoca fasciata. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Plate 18. The Ribbon Seal, male and female. Histriophoca fasciata (Zimmerman), Gill. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

The looped red ribbon became the universal symbol of AIDS awareness.

[Cutting the ribbon to open the NICHD's Children's Diagnostic and Study Unit] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Ralph Fernandez..

Red Ribbon Week : The Choice For Me Drug Free!!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Medal of Honor and ribbon, photographed circa 1945. Credit: NAVY.

Photograped in 1918-19. She served in the Bureau of Navigation, Washington, D.C., from November 1918 to June 1919. Note her beret-style hat, with "U.S. Navy" cap ribbon. Credit: NAVY.

A lock of black curly hair tied with blue ribbon. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And he fastened the ribbon round her neck again

They thought they noticed that he wore something, upon his breast and under his shirt, hung from his neck by a black ribbon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Urethral sling procedures pass a ribbon of fascia or artificial material beneath the urethra. (references)

Human Rights

Fiji

The human rights campaigns begun after the coup continued to work under a banner organization called the "Blue Ribbon Campaign." The group continues to plan peace vigils and other similar events, but the Qarase Government pays the Blue Ribbon Campaign little attention. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "ribbon": adding machine ribbon ♦ blue ribbon ♦ blue ribbon jury ♦ ink ribbon ♦ lingual ribbon ♦ medal ribbon ♦ petersham ribbon ♦ printer ribbon ♦ red ribbon ♦ ribbon building ♦ ribbon development ♦ ribbon fern ♦ ribbon figure ♦ ribbon fish ♦ ribbon grain ♦ ribbon grass ♦ ribbon indicator ♦ ribbon lapper ♦ ribbon saw ♦ ribbon seal ♦ ribbon snake ♦ ribbon Society ♦ ribbon tree ♦ ribbon worm ♦ silk ribbon ♦ typewriter ribbon ♦ Western ribbon snake ♦ white ribbon. Additional references.

Beginning with "ribbon": ribbon-bound, ribbon-cutting, ribbon-grass, ribbon-helix-helix, ribbon-lace, ribbon-leaved water plantain, ribbon-like, ribbon-making, ribbon-patterned, ribbon-seal, ribbon-shaped, ribbon-tied, ribbon-wearing.

Ending with "ribbon": blue-ribbon, dna-ribbon, four-ribbon, hair-ribbon, multi-ribbon, yellow-ribbon.

Albanian

rripe (strapping), rrip (band, bandeau, belt, cincture, cleat, girdle, leash, riband, slat, spline, strap, streak, strip, tape, thong, trace, waist belt), zbukuroj me rripe, shirit (band, bandage, bar, braid, cleat, colors, colours, edging, fillet, sash, scarf, strap, stria, stripe, Taenia, tape, tapeworm), fjongo (bow, knot). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزق إربا (shred), ‏وشاح (cordon, kerchief, sash, scarf, veil), ‏تزين بالشريط, ‏زين بأشرطة, ‏زمام (rein, zip), ‏عنان (rein), ‏ضماضة (plaster, sticking), ‏شريط (band, bar, streak, strip, stripe, tape). (various references)

Bulgarian 

украсявам с ленти, украсявам с панделки, разкъсвам на ленти, разкъсвам на парцали, тясна ивица (riband), образувам ивици (ridge), нашарвам с резки, нашарвам с ивици, лента (band, bar, decoration, riband, strap, string, strip, tape), правя ивици, панделка (band, bow, braid, fillet, platband, riband, snood). (various references)

Chinese 

緞帶 , 丝带, 帶 (and, area, band, belt, bring, carry, consists of, girdle, lead, region, show, wear, zone). (various references)

Czech

stuha (band, riband, streamer, tie), stužka (braid, Favor, favour), pentle (streamer), lišta (ledge, slat), lem (bottom, edge, hem, rim, selvage, Selvedge, skirt), cár (rag, scrap). (various references)

Danish

farvebaand (ink ribbon, typewriter ribbon), baand (band, constraint, frenulum, frenum, orthodontic band, ring, strip). (various references)

Dutch

lint (lint, lint cotton, narrow woven fabrics), band (band, binding, bond, border, braid, brim, brink, cover, edge, edging, fillet, fringe, ligament, orchestra, ray, rim, string, strip, stripe, tape, tie, tire, tyre, volume). (various references)

Esperanto

rubando. (various references)

Faeroese

band (binding, bond, cord, rope, string, strip, tape, tie). (various references)

Farsi 

نوارفلزی , نوارماشین تحریر, نوارضبطصوت وامثال ان , نوار (Band, Braid, Fascia, Lace, Ligature, Rand, Strip, Swath, Swathe, Tape, Welt), تسمه (Bail, Belt, Halter, Hoop, Lash, Strop, Thong), تراشه (Chip, Excelsior, Slither, Sliver, Splint, Splinter), روبان (Band). (various references)

Finnish

värinauha, nauha (band, binding, braid, lace, strip, tape), hiusnauha. (various references)

French

ruban (ribbon saw). (various references)

German

Band (assembly line, band, belt, bond, cement, connection, conveyor belt, frequency band, group, hoop, lace, league, ligament, ligated, line, reel, strap, string, stripe, tape, tie, track, volume, wavelength), Farbband (book with color illustrations, ink ribbon). (various references)

Greek 

ταινία (band, banderol, banderole, belt, cordon, fillet, film, movie, strip, stripe, tape, tapeworm). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתפורת, רצועה (band, belt, knout, lash, ligament, list, strap, streak, swivel, tape). (various references)

Hungarian

szalag (band, belt, cordon, fillet, ligament, riband, strip, stripe, tape, tapes, tie up), pántlika. (various references)

Indonesian

pita (band, bow, tape). (various references)

Italian

nastro (band, belt, fillet, tape). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

リボルビング払い (revolving payments, ribbon stripe), 印綬 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リボン , いんじゅ (head of a temple, shade tree). (various references)

Korean 

리본. (various references)

Manx

rybban (band, cordon, riband, tape). (various references)

Pig Latin

ibbonray.(various references)

Portuguese

fita (band, bind, clamp, cordon, fillet, lace, snood, string, strip, tape, tie-up), tira (brace, ray, screed, shred, slat, strip, stripe), faixa (band, belt, fillet, ray, rib, roller-bandage, sash, streak, strip, stripe, tape, truss, wrapper, zone), banda (bank shore, border, coast beach, crowd, edge, gang, sash, scarf, side, throng). (various references)

Romanian

panglicã (band, bind, braid, cordon, fillet, hatband, lace, riband, strip, tape), hãţuri, frâu (bridle, curb, rein, reins, restraint), fâşie (band, shred, slip, streak, stripe), cordea, bucatã (article, bar, brick, clod, cut, dollop, fragment, hunk, junk, length, morsel, nub, part, Pat, patch, piece, shred, slice, snack, steak, tablet), bentiţã (band), bandã (band, binder, bunch, clique, cushion, gang, pack, parcel, ring, rout, set, strap, strip, tape, troop). (various references)

Russian 

разрывать на полоски, знак отличия (decoration, mark of distinction), ленточный (band), лента ленточный (belt), лента (band, fillet, sash, strip, tape). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrpca (band, bow, braid, cord, string, tape), traka (band, braid, lane, line, streamer, strip, tape, ticker tape), staviti traku, poderan na dronjke, pantljika (bow, tape), od trake, mašna (bow, tie). (various references)

Spanish

cinta (band, bond, cassette, connection, film, headband, league, loading belt, riband, tape, tie). (various references)

Swedish

remsa (border, brim, brink, edge, edging, fringe, rand, rim, shred, slip, snip, strip, swath, tape). (various references)

Thai

แถบผ้าหมึก, สายสะพาย, ฉีกเป็นเส้นยาว, ตกแต่งด้วยริบบิ้น. (various references)

Turkish

pervaz (cincture, cornice, cyma, dressing, fringe, jamb, molding, moulding, reveal, rib, shelf, sill, Wale, wheal), kurdele (braid, riband, snood, tape), daktilo şeridi (riband, typewriter ribbon), bant (band, binding, braid, court plaster, cushion, fascia, fillet, recording, scotch tape, strap, strapping, strip, tape, welt), şerit (band, braid, cord, fascia, fillet, gut, lace, riband, roadway, spline, strap, strip, stripe, tab, tape, tapeworm, traffic lane, welt). (various references)

Turkmen 

lenta. (various references)

Ukrainian

стрічка (band, filet, fillet, riband, sash, snood, tag, tape), вузька смужка, прикрашати стрічками, ділити на вузькі смужки. (various references)

Welsh

ruban, ysnoden (band, fillet). (various references)

vitta, vittae, vittas. (various references)

label, riban. (various references)

cordon. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ribbon": ribboned, ribbonfish, ribbonfishes, ribboning, ribbonlike, ribbons, ribbony. (additional references)

Words containing "ribbon": beribboned. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ribbon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Drebbond, Eibon, Eribo, Eribon, Gribbon, ibon, pribnow, rabbon, Rabbuh, Rabjohn, Rabobank, rabon, Raboni, Rabson, ribband, riben, ribin, ribo, ribon, ribone, robbo, Robton, Rubbo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: robbin.

-1 letter: robin.

-2 letters: born, brin, brio, inro, iron, noir, nori.

-3 letters: bib, bin, bio, bob, bro, ion, nib, nob, nor, obi, orb, rib, rin, rob.

-4 letters: bi, bo, in, no, on, or.

+1 letter: nobbier, rabboni, ribbons, ribbony, robbing, robbins.

+2 letters: knobbier, rabbonis, ribboned, snobbier.

+3 letters: absorbing, barbitone, knobblier, ribboning, throbbing.

+4 letters: barbitones, belaboring, beribboned, bombarding, bookbinder, bourbonism, clobbering, naboberies, outbribing, ribbonfish, ribbonlike, slobbering, snobberies.

+5 letters: absorbingly, belabouring, bicarbonate, bookbinders, bookbindery, bourbonisms, browbeating, firebombing, overdubbing, reabsorbing.