Liczba mnoga: ribbons

ETYM Old Eng. riban, Old Fren. riban, French ruban, probably of German origin; cf. Dutch ringband collar, necklace, Eng. ring circle, and band.<br /> 1. A long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter; SYN. typewriter ribbon.
2. A narrow strip of fine material used for trimming.
3. Any long object resembling a thin line; SYN. thread.

1. To adorn with ribbons; to divide into ribbons
2. To cover with or as if with ribbons
3. To rip to shreds

Liczba mnoga: ribbon cables

A flat cable containing up to 100 parallel wires for data and control lines. For example, ribbon cables are used inside a computer’s case to connect the disk drives to their controllers.

Liczba mnoga: ribbon cartridges

A disposable module containing an inked fabric ribbon or a carbon-coated plastic film ribbon. Many impact printers use ribbon cartridges to make ribbon changing easier and cleaner.

Liczba mnoga: ribbon developments

Buildings in a continuous row along a road.
Another term for linear development, housing that has grown up along a route.

Liczba mnoga: ribbon ferns

1. Epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America; SYN. Ophioglossum pendulum.
2. Fern of North Africa and Azores and Canary Islands; SYN. spider fern, Pteris serrulata.

Liczba mnoga: ribbon lakes

Long, narrow lake found on the floor of a glacial trough. A ribbon lake will often form in an elongated hollow carved out by a glacier, perhaps where it came across a weaker band of rock. Ribbon lakes can also form when water ponds up behind a terminal moraine or a landslide. The English Lake District is named for its many ribbon lakes, such as Lake Windermere and Coniston Water.

Liczba mnoga: ribbon snakes

Slender yellow-striped North American garter snake; prefers wet places; SYN. Thamnophis sauritus.

Liczba mnoga: ribbon spools

Liczba mnoga: ribbon trees

Deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong flax-like fiber called New Zealand cotton; SYN. ribbonwood, Plagianthus regius, Plagianthus betulinus.

Liczba mnoga: ribbon worms

Soft unsegmented marine worms having a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract; SYN. nemertean, nemertine, proboscis worm.

Liczba mnoga: ribbon-leaved water plantains

A variety of water plantain.

Liczba mnoga: ribbonfish

Marine fish having a long compressed ribbon-like body.
Any of a family (Trachipteridae) of elongate greatly compressed marine bony fishes (as a dealfish) with a long ribbonlike dorsal fin arising from behind the head

Long and thin; resembling a ribbon; SYN. ribbony.