headband

«headband» in Mova's school dictionary: a band of cloth, plastic or elastic worn around the head… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a headband, headbands)

meaning for a pupil

A headband is a band of cloth, plastic or elastic worn around the head or over the hair to keep hair or sweat away from the face, or for decoration. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children wear headbands to hold hair back, in sports to soak up sweat, and in dress-up (bunny ears, crowns). In crafts, pupils make paper headbands with feathers, animal ears or crowns. Phrases: wear a headband, sweatband, a headband with ears.

examples

• She pushed her hair back with a blue headband. tree →
• The tennis player wore a headband to stop sweat getting in his eyes. tree →
• We made paper headbands with rabbit ears for the play. tree →
• My headband has a little bow on it. tree →
• Grandma knitted me a warm headband for winter. tree →
• The runners all wore matching headbands. tree →

note

One word, countable: headbands. A headband that goes around the forehead for sport is also called a «sweatband». An «Alice band» (UK) is a stiff headband over the top of the head.

In the corpora

• So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «headband» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.