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Band Aid

Definitions: Band Aid

Band Aid

Noun

1. (trademark) an adhesive bandage to cover small cuts or blisters.

2. Hurried repair.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Band Aid

Synonyms: quick fix (n), quickie (n), quicky (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Band Aid

English words defined with "Band Aid": Marseillaise hymnThe Marseillaise. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Band Aid": May Meetings. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Band Aid

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Band Aid

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

band aid

271

liquid band aid

25

band aid brand

7

band aid bandage

4

band aid face lift

4

curad band aid

4

music of band aid

3

chocolate band aid

3

band aid surgery

2

band aid liquid bandage

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Band Aid

Language Translations for "Band Aid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

Leukoplast (adhesive plaster, elastoplast, plaster, tape). (various references)

   

German

  

Behelfsmäßig (makeshift), Heftpflaster (adhesive plaster, adhesive tape, plaster, sticking plaster). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

Ö°×'×" Ö¾×"בק. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyorstapasz (elastoplast). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Provvisorio (interim, provisional, temporary, tentative). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andbay aiday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

atadura (band, bandage, binder, fillet, lacing, swathe, tie, tying). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Tirita (adhesive bandage). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Yardımcı (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, booster, coadjutor, collateral, contributory, cooperative, deputy, donkey, friend, help, helper, helpful, helpmate, helpmeet, henchman, lieutenant, obliging, second, sidekick, stand by, sub, subsidiary, suffragan, supporter, supporting, vice-), Yara Bandı (adhesive bandage, plaster, sticking plaster, strapping), Plaster (adhesive bandage, court plaster, patch, plaster), Geçici (ad interim, casual, curable, deciduous, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, flying, fortuitous, fugacious, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, palliative, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporal, temporary, tentative, transient, transitory, volatile), Eğreti (artificial, extrinsic, improvised, jury, makeshift, rough, stopgap, temporary, transitory). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Band Aid

Misspellings

"Band Aid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bandaid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Band Aid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bandaid.

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-i-n"

-1 letter: indaba.

-2 letters: naiad.

-3 letters: band, bani, bind, dada, nada.

-4 letters: aba, add, aid, ain, ana, and, ani, baa, bad, ban, bid, bin, dab, dad, dib, did, din, nab, nib.

-5 letters: aa, ab, ad, ai, an, ba, bi, id, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-d-i-n"
 

+1 letter: bandaids.

 

+2 letters: badinaged.

 

+4 letters: bastinadoed, diamondback.

 

+5 letters: diamondbacks, unbarricaded.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Band Aid


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 6E 64      41 69 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000001 01101001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#65 &#105 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006E 0064      0041 0069 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

366780702357570

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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