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Definitions: Bandage |
BandageNoun1. A piece of soft material that protects an injured part of the body. Verb1. Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose. 2. Dress by covering or binding: "The nurse bandaged a sprained ankle"; "bandage an incision". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bandage" was first used: 1599. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Insurance | A binder, usually made of textil material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Temporary cover for small holes in pressure hoses. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ideally a bandage comes in a prepackaged sterile wrapping. However, bandages can be and often are improvised as needed.
Changing bandages is one common task in nursing.
Bandages are typically found in first aid kits.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bandage."
Synonym: BandageSynonym: bind (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders. |
Covering | Bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall. |
Junction | Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span. |
Prison | Bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples; vice, vise. |
Remedy | Compress, pledget; bandage; (support). |
Support | Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings. |
Support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up, bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear; prop; under prop, under pin, under set; riprap; bandage. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I had them beam me down some thermo-concrete, and I just troweled that over the wound as a bandage. I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day. (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bandage Bait (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | After the operation a bandage remains on the eye to which sight has been restored. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Larsen.. |  | Medicine - Military - Equipment : First aid bandage with illustrations showing ways to wrap wounds.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Caudal view of pressure bandage. / [Herbert L. Treusch].Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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Robert Green Ingersoll | Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge knew this, by the smart sound its teeth made, when the jaws were brought together by the bandage. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Close beside it leans a diseased old apple tree swathed in a bandage of straw and loam. |
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Economic History | Canada | Class I represents devices that pose the least risk, such as a bandage, while Class IV devices pose the highest risk (for example, a pacemaker). (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. |
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| "Bandage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.65% of the time. "Bandage" is used about 229 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.65% | 203 | 21,393 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.42% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.93% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 229 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bandage": adhesive bandage ♦ bandage case ♦ capeline bandage ♦ compression bandage ♦ crepe bandage ♦ elastic bandage ♦ eye bandage ♦ gauze bandage ♦ immovable bandage ♦ oblique bandage ♦ plaster bandage ♦ plaster of Paris bandage ♦ remove a bandage ♦ roller bandage ♦ scarf bandage ♦ spiral bandage ♦ suspensory bandage ♦ T bandage ♦ triangular bandage ♦ varicose bandage. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bandage": bandage-type. | |
Ending with "bandage": lint-bandage. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bandage | 394 |
bandage heat hot hot lyrics | 111 |
bandage lyrics | 93 |
ace bandage | 91 |
bandage heat hot hot | 48 |
bandage rainbow | 24 |
liquid bandage | 22 |
bandage board | 21 |
plaster bandage | 19 |
elastic bandage | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bandage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | verband (relation, understanding). (various references) | |
Albanian | bordurë (border, edging, hem, purl, welt), bandazh (band, patch), shirit (band, bar, braid, cleat, colors, colours, edging, fillet, ribbon, sash, scarf, strap, stria, stripe, Taenia, tape, tapeworm), lidhje (affinity, alliance, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevance, relevancy, respect, seam, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, truss, tying), lidh me fashë, fashoj (band, dress, swathe), fashatim (band), fashë (band, gauze, patch, roller bandage, sling, swathe). (various references) | |
Arabic | عصابة (gang, herd, pack, ring, robbers, set, shower, swathe, tape), عصب (bind, chord, nerve, sinew, swathe), ضمادة (dressing, ligature, lint, pad, stupe), ضمد (dress, ligature). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свързвам (ally, articulate, associate, bond, brace, bracket, catenate, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, construe, couple, gather, interconnect, join, knot, lash, link, marry, mate, pack, piece out, piece together, put through, run on, truss, weld), бандаж (jockstrap, suspensory, truss), бинт (swathe), превързвам (dress, ligature), превръзка (bandaging, dressing, fillet, ligature, suspensory). (various references) | |
Catalan | embenament. (various references) | |
Chinese | 繃帶 , 上绷带. (various references) | |
Czech | obvaz (compress, dressing, roller), obvázat (bind, dress, swathe). (various references) | |
Danish | bandage (bandage dressing, dressing, tyre). (various references) | |
Dutch | zwachtel (bandage dressing, dressing, swathe), verband (bandage dressing, bracing, dressing, relation, understanding). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bandaĝo, vindi (wind), pansbendo (swathe), pansaĵo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | sveipa (wind), reiva (wind). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوارزخم بندی (Band), بانواربستن (Band). (various references) | |
Finnish | side (band, binder, binding, bond, curb, tie, tube seat). (various references) | |
French | bandage (band, bandage dressing, bandaging, shroud band), pansement, emmailloter, bande (band, bandage dressing, bar, batch, batch of animals). (various references) | |
German | Verband (agglutinated, assoc, association, bandaged, bond, bracing, braid, conglomerated, conjoined, connection, detachment, dressing, federation, fillet, formation, joined, league, mated, string, tie, unit), verbinden (affiliate, ally, amalgamate, associate, bandaging, bind, bind up, chaine, coalesce, combine, communicate, compound, concatenate, conjoin, connect, connecting, contact, couple, dress, interconnect, intertwine, join, join on, join up, joining, joint, link, link-up, mate, merge, piecing, put through, report, splice, splicing, synthesize, tie, tie up, to affiliate, to agglutinate, to ally, to bandage, to chain, to combine, to compound, to concatenate, to conjoin, to contact, to couple, to gang, to interconnect, to link, to mate, to splice, tying, unite), Binde (bandage dressing, binding, braid, cord, fascia, fillet, ligature, linking, napkin, sanitary napkin, sling, string, strip, strip of material, tape, taping, tie), bandage (bandage dressing), wickeln (bind, coil, curling, dress, put in curlers, put in rollers, reeling, roll, roll up, rolling, swaddle, take up, to swaddle, twist, wind, wind up, winding, wrap, wreathe). (various references) | |
Greek | επίδεσμος (bandage dressing, dressing, ligature). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחתל (diaper, swaddle, swathe, wrap up), לחבוש (dress, imprison, put on, saddle, swathe), תחבושת (compress, dressing, ligature), עזק (clasp, ring), חתול (cat, diaper, napkin, nappy, wrapping), א'" מ"בק, חביש" (dressing, imprisonment, saddling, wearing on the head), רטי" (compress, plaster). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kötés (binding, coupling, dolly, dovetail joint, joint, knitting, knitwork, lace-work, swathe, swathing, tie), kötszer (lint), tapasz (patch, plaster). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bebat (dressing), barut, balut (dressing, wrapping), perban (swathe), membebati, membebat. (various references) | |
Italian | fasciatura (assoc, association, bandage dressing, bandaged, bandaging, binding, deligation, dressing, hoop ring, hooping, ligation, ring, shrunk-on, wrapping), fascia (band, bandage dressing, diaper, eaves fascia, envelope, fascia, fascia board, nappy, newspaper wrapper, sash, section, strip, sweatband, wrapper, zone), bendaggio (bandage dressing, bandaging, dressing), benda (band, bandage dressing, binding, blindfold, linkage, linking, melton, molleton, parcelling, patch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 繃帯 (dressing), 包帯 (dressing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほうたい (being the recipient of, carrying out the will of one's lord, dressing, having a prince for a president, reverential acceptance). (various references) | |
Korean | 붕대. (various references) | |
Manx | stollag, kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, connect, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, influence, involvement, juncture, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum), cur kiangley er (band, bind down). (various references) | |
Norwegian | bind. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andagebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | faixa (band, bandage dressing, belt, crosswalk, fillet, ray, rib, ribbon, roller bandage, sash, streak, strip, stripe, tape, truss, wrapper, zebra crossing, zone), bandagem (bandage dressing, swathe). (various references) | |
Romanian | bandaja (bind, dress, swathe), bandaj (application, binding, ferrule, sash, swathe, truss), prişniţã (poultice), pansament (application, dressing), pansa (bind up, dress, enswathe, groom), legãturã (band, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, harmony, headkerchief, hoist, junction, knot, lashing, league, liaison, ligament, link, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, pertinence, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, truss, unity), lega la, faşã (swaddle). (various references) | |
Russian | бандаж (belt, jockstrap, jock-strap, truss, tyre). (various references) | |
Scottish | stail (a bandage). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bandažirati (truss), zavoj (curvature, dressing, swathe), zaviti (swathe, wrap). (various references) | |
Spanish | vendaje (bandage dressing, bandaging, bonus, commission, deligation, dressing, ligation), venda (assoc, association, band, bandage dressing, bandaged, dressing, headband). (various references) | |
Swedish | förband (assembly, connection, dressing, fitting, formation, joint, unit), bandage, linda (lap, swaddle, twine, twist, wind, wrap up), förbinda (associate, bind over, conjoin, dress, join, joint, link-up, pledge, straddle), bindel (band, filet, fillet, roller bandage, sling). (various references) | |
Thai | พันแผล, ผ้าพันแผล (gauze). (various references) | |
Turkish | bandaj (roller bandage, swathe), bağ (alliance, beginnings, binder, bond, brace, connection, connexion, copula, copulation, cord, corelate, daughter, desmo-, fascia, fastener, fastening, header, knot, lace, league, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, linkup, nexus, noose, relation, relationship, string, tie, tie up, truss, vinculum, vine, vineyard, yoke). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sarag. (various references) | |
Ukranian | сполучення (communication, conjugation, connection, connexion, intercommunication, juncture), накладати пов'язку (strap up), бандаж (band, swathe), бинтувати (swathe), бинт (band, roller, swathe), пов'язка (armlet), перев'язувати (band, bind, bind up). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhwymynnu, rhwymyn (band, bond, brace), rhwymo (bind, constipate, tie). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | tun. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | circumligata, circumligatum, fascia. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | bander. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bandage": bandaged, bandager, bandagers, bandages. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bandage": unbandage. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bandage": unbandaged, unbandages. (additional references) | |
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"Bandage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: badae, bandgap, bandige, bandmate, bantae, bantage, Bendigo, Bendouga, Bhadase, bondagr, Bunnage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bandage" (pronounced ba"ndij) |
| 4 | -n d i j | appendage, bondage, poundage. |
| 3 | -d i j | cordage, yardage. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-g-n" | |
-1 letter: agenda, banged. | |
-2 letters: adage, baaed, badge, baned, began. | |
-3 letters: abed, aged, anga, bade, band, bane, bang, bead, bean, bend, dang, dean, egad, gaed, gaen, gane, nabe, nada. | |
-4 letters: aba, aga, age, ana, and, ane, baa, bad, bag, ban, bed, beg, ben, dab, dag, deb, den, end, eng, gab, gad, gae, gan, ged, gen, nab, nae, nag, neb. | |
-5 letters: aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, an, ba, be, de, ed, en, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-g-n" | |
+1 letter: badinage, bandaged, bandager, bandages. | |
+2 letters: abnegated, badinaged, badinages, bandagers, bargained, gabardine, unbandage. | |
+3 letters: bemadaming, brigandage, gabardines, sandbagged, sandbagger, unbandaged, unbandages, vagabonded. | |
+4 letters: brigandages, diagnosable, grandbabies, sandbaggers, vagabondage. | |
+5 letters: backpedaling, diagnoseable, outbargained, vagabondages. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6E 64 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -. -.. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a n d a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006E 0064 0061 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36678070677371 |
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