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Definition: Headband |
HeadbandNoun1. A band worn around or over the head; "the earphones were held in place by a headband". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "headband" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Labor | A band used to tighten hair. Source: European Union. (references) |
Personal Care & Hotels | Bandeau pour empêcher la sueur de couler dans les yeux. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonyms by domain: head-bands (post & telecompublishing & graphic artspersonal care & hotels, languagelaborpersonal care & hotels, industry). |
Crosswords: Headband |
| English words defined with "headband": Ampyx ♦ earmuff ♦ fillet ♦ Snod ♦ taenia, tenia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "headband": berger, Berger lens, Berger's loupe, binocular lens, binocular loupe, binocular magnifier, binocular-magnifier set ♦ ear muff, EAR-MUFF ASSEMBLER ♦ HEAD-BANDER-AND-LINER OPERATOR, hogshead hand, HOGSHEAD OPENER, hogshead stripper, hogshead unpacker, hogshead wrecker. (references) |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Youth in African costume with headband.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, with long hair, wearing headband, facing slightly right] / Emily Mew.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woman wearing a headband holding Buzzer the cat.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Headband, one feather. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For example, a child who is unable to speak or write but can make head movements may be able to learn to control a computer using a special light pointer that attaches to a headband. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Headband" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.67% of the time. "Headband" is used about 43 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) | 97.67% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
headband | 139 |
burberry headband | 15 |
headband wig | 14 |
headband nike | 11 |
nba headband | 11 |
bridal headband | 9 |
headband radio | 8 |
jordan headband | 6 |
headband naruto | 6 |
headband photo | 5 |
halo headband | 5 |
headband rhinestone | 4 |
wedding headband | 4 |
cat ear headband | 4 |
flower headband | 4 |
headband magnifier | 4 |
cool headband | 4 |
elastic headband | 4 |
adidas headband | 4 |
headband plastic | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "headband"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shirit dekorativ, rrip koke (fillet), mbajtëse kufjesh, jetull. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | العصابة الظهرية, شملة عمامة (turban). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | панделка за глава (chaplet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | páska do vlasù. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pandebånd, kapitælbånd (headpiece). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hoofdband, besteekband. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیشانی بند. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | otsanauha. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bandeau (header). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stirnband (bandeau, frontlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κεφαλόδεσμοσ, κεφαλόδεσμος, κεφαλάρι (fountainhead, gipsy, gipsy head, warping drum, warping end, warping head, whipping drum, winch head), ραφίδωμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hajszalag (band, bandeau, snood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Supporto elastico, nastro da legare intorno alla testa, capitello (capital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鉢巻き , 鉢巻 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はちまき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mohawk | atenonhwaranha. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadbandhay tranchefila, que tem dores de cabeça, fita em torno da cabeça, cabeçada (bridle, butt, halter, header). (various references) повязка на голове. (various references) traka za kosu. (various references) venda (assoc, association, band, bandage, bandage dressing, bandaged, dressing), cinta recogepelo, cinta (back ring, ball, band, bead, belt, bond, cassette, connection, film, league, loading belt, magnetic tape, newspaper wrapper, riband, ribbon, ring collar, tape, tie, web, wrapper), cabezada (butt, nod, nutation, pitch, snooze). (various references) pannband (filet, fillet). (various references) saç bantı. (various references) головна пов'язка. (various references) dải buộc đầu, băng buộc đầu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | mitra. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | infula. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | tissu. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "headband": headbands. (additional references) | |
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"Headband" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deadband, eadbang, headbang, headbed, Hemandanda, Huaibin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "headband" (pronounced he"dba'nd) |
| 5 | -d b a' n d | broadband. |
| 4 | -b a' n d | armband, contraband, spaceband. |
| 3 | -a' n d | ampersand, backhand, Badland, bandstand, beforehand, cropland, dreamland, fairyland, Fantasyland, farmhand, farmland, Fatherland, firebrand, flatland, forehand, freehand, grandstand, grassland, handstand, heartland, hinterland, homeland, inland, longhand, lowland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, motherland, newsstand, nightstand, Northland, outland, overland, parkland, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, Southland, stagehand, sunland, Timberland, undermanned, wasteland, wetland, Wonderland, woodland. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-e-h-n" | |
-2 letters: banded, handed. | |
-3 letters: aahed, ahead, baaed, baned, haded. | |
-4 letters: abed, bade, band, bane, bead, bean, bend, dada, dead, dean, hade, haed, haen, hand, head, nabe, nada. | |
-5 letters: aah, aba, add, aha, ana, and, ane, baa, bad, bah, ban, bed, ben, dab, dad, dah, deb, den, edh, end, had, hae, hen, nab, nae, nah, neb. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-d-e-h-n" | |
+1 letter: headbands. | |
+2 letters: backhanded, barehanded. | |
+3 letters: handbreadth. | |
+4 letters: backhandedly, handbreadths, handsbreadth. | |
+5 letters: handsbreadths. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 64 62 61 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- -.. -... .- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100010 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a d b a n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0064 0062 0061 006E 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271677068678070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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