As a noun, band refers to a musical group or to any group of people joined for a common purpose. In addition, the noun band means a ring, a restraint, a belt, or a specific range of wavelengths or radio frequencies.
As a verb, band means to mark with a band or to unite for a common purpose (band together).
Banned is the past and past-participle form of the verb to ban, which means to forbid or prohibit.
Examples:
- Whenever possible, the individual members of the band travel from gig to gig by rented car.
- The diadem is a band of gold more than an inch in width and eighteen inches in length.
- The demand for new radio stations in the 1960s prompted the FCC to push new licensees into the FM band.
- In 1926, H.L. Mencken was arrested in Boston for selling a banned copy of the American Mercury magazine.
Practice Exercises:
(a) Chuck and his friends formed a rock _____, but they had trouble finding an instrument for Fat Cat to play.
(b) My father used to hide _____ books in a little vault he had built in the basement.
(c) The rival factions were forced to _____ together to protect their homes against a new enemy.
