banded

1. 1
   adjective

   Marked with stripes or bands of different color.

   The polished agate revealed a banded pattern of concentric layers.

   Geologists recognized the formation by its sharply banded surface.

   Similarstriped, striated, streaked, stripy

   Note

   Heralds use it in blazon, the formal language of coats of arms. There it follows the charge and comes before its tincture. In Dorothy Verrill's Maltby-Maltbie Family History (1916), the crest is "a Garb Or, banded sable," a golden sheaf with a black band. "Leaves, vert. banded gules" means green leaves with red bands. The color word always comes after banded, never before it.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of band.

   Volunteers banded the migrating geese before releasing them.

   The whole community banded together after the flood.

   Note

   One regular -ed form serves several verbs. Used with an object, it means fastened with a band, fitted with an identifying leg band (ornithologists band birds), or grouped by ability, as schools do with students. Without an object it almost always takes together: neighbors banded together. Older English also used plain band, without -ed, as a past form of bind and as a spelling of bandy. Both uses are now obsolete.

3. 3
   adjective

   Separated or arranged into distinct ranges or groups.

   The tax brackets are banded according to annual income.

   Membership fees are banded by household size.

   Similartiered, graded, grouped

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