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ribbon(dictionary)

ribbon(1) (iou) and redox potential (medicine)


ribbon(1) (iou)



ribbon noun. E16.
[Var. of RIBAND noun1.]
a. Fine fabric in the form of a narrow strip or band, used for trimming or decoration or to fasten a garment etc. E16.
M. Meyer A small bundle of papers tied with ribbon.
b. A narrow strip or band of such fabric. E17.
P. Auster Small presents..an apple, for example, or a ribbon for my hair. E. North A breeze arose, causing ribbons on women's hats to flutter.
A ribbon of a special design or colour, worn to indicate the holding of an honour, membership of a group, etc.; spec. (a) the badge of an order of knighthood; (b) a small multicoloured piece of ribbon worn in place of the medal it represents. Also (in pl.), prizes or decorations awarded to the winners of a contest etc. (chiefly in in the ribbons, into the ribbons, among the prize-winners). M17.
blue ribbon: see BLUE adjective. medal ribbon: see MEDAL noun. red ribbon: see RED adjective.
a. A bell-pull. slang. Only in L17.
b. In pl. Reins. slang. E19.
c. Gin; spirits. slang. Now rare or obsolete. E19.
Heraldry. = RIBAND noun1 2. Now rare. E18.
= RIBBAND noun1 1. E18.
A long thin flexible strip of anything; spec. a narrow band of impregnated fabric or coated plastic wound on a spool, used as the inking agent in a typewriter etc. M18.
paper ribbon: see PAPER noun & adjective.
Conan Doyle From the end of Whitehall to Victoria Street, the black ribbon of traffic whirled and circled. M. G. Eberhart A ribbon of toothpaste emerged from its uncapped tube.
b. A strip of land or ground; esp. a path, a road. M19.
K. Amis He looked..at the ribbon of road ahead of them.
Anatomy & Zoology etc. A ribbon-like tissue or structure. E19.
lingual ribbon: see LINGUAL adjective 2.
In pl. Torn strips of something; tatters, shreds. E19.
fig.: C. Lasch This female cuts men to ribbons or swallows them whole.
Comb.: ribbon-building = ribbon development below; ribbon cane a variety of sugar cane whose mature stalks have red or purplish longitudinal stripes; ribbon cartridge (a) a pickup cartridge working on the same principle as a ribbon microphone; (b) a cartridge containing a spooled typewriter ribbon for easy and clean insertion into and removal from a typewriter; ribbon chute colloq. = ribbon parachute below; ribbon copy US the top copy of a typed letter or document; ribbon development the building of houses in a line along a main road, usu. one leading out of a town or village; ribbon-fern any of several cultivated ferns with narrow simply divided fronds, esp. Pteris cretica; ribbon figure a striped pattern of grain seen in some quarter-sawn hardwoods; ribbonfish any of various fishes having a very long slender flattened body; esp. (a) a scabbard-fish, Lepidopus caudatus; (b) the oarfish, Regalecus glesne; (c) a fish of the family Trachipteridae, related to the oarfish; ribbon grain = ribbon figure above; ribbon-grass a form of reed-grass with variegated leaves, Phalaris arundinacea var. picta, grown for ornament; Ribbonman Hist. a member of the Ribbon Society; ribbon microphone, (colloq.) ribbon mike a directional microphone deriving its electrical output from the vibration of a thin metal ribbon mounted between the poles of a permanent magnet; ribbon parachute a parachute having a canopy consisting of an arrangement of closely spaced tapes; ribbon plant the spider plant, Chlorophytum comosum; ribbon snake either of two N. American garter snakes, Thamnophis sauritus and T. proximus, with very thin bodies; Ribbon Society Hist. a Catholic secret society in Ireland formed to oppose Protestant supremacy and associated with agrarian disorders; ribbonwood any of several New Zealand trees of the mallow family whose bark is a source of fibre, esp. Plagianthus regius and the houhere, Hoheria populnea.
ribboner noun a person who wears a ribbon (only with specifying word); white ribboner: see WHITE adjective: L19.
Ribbonism noun (Hist.) the principles or policy of the Ribbon Society E19.
ribbon-like adjective resembling a ribbon in shape or form E19.
ribbonry noun ribbons collectively E19.
ribbony adjective decked with ribbons; resembling a ribbon or ribbons: M19.

redox potential (medicine)


redox potential
<chemistry> The reducing/oxidizing power of a system measured by the potential at a hydrogen electrode.