Synonyms of the word ribbon


RIBBONACCOLADE - AWARD - DECORATION - HONOR - HONOUR - LAURELS - MEDAL - MEDALLION - NOTION - OBJECT - PALM - SLIP - STRIP - THREAD

ribbon

  • n. A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
  • n. An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
  • n. A narrow strip or shred.
  • n. (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband.
  • n. (slang, dated, in the plural) Driving reins.
  • n. (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
  • n. (spinning) A sliver.
  • n. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
  • n. (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel,…
  • v. To decorate with ribbon.

accolade

  • n. An expression of approval; praise.
  • n. A special acknowledgment; an award.
  • n. An embrace of greeting or salutation.
  • n. (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and…
  • n. (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
  • n. (US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded…
  • n. (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its…
  • v. (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
  • v. (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
  • v. (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.

award

  • n. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
  • n. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
  • n. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor…
  • n. (obsolete) Care, keeping.
  • n. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or…
  • v. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful…
  • v. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
  • v. (transitive) to give an award (prize) for merit.

decoration

  • n. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
  • n. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
  • n. Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of…
  • n. (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host.

honor

  • n. (uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally…
  • n. (uncountable) The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence…
  • n. (countable) A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such…
  • n. A privilege.
  • n. (in the plural) The privilege of going first.
  • n. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
  • n. (feudal law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
  • n. (heraldry, countable) The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon. (Compare honour point…
  • n. (countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In…
  • n. (in the plural) (Courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank.
  • v. (transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or…
  • v. (transitive) To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request,…
  • v. (transitive) To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft etc).

honour

  • n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.
  • v. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African standard spelling of honor.

laurels

  • n. plural of laurel.
  • n. Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred…

medal

  • n. A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
  • n. A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.
  • v. (sports, colloquial) To win a medal.

medallion

  • n. A large medal, usually decorative.
  • n. A cut of meat resembling a medallion.
  • n. (art) A round or oval frame (often made of Stucco) which contains a plastic or pictorial decoration of…
  • n. A circular certificate used in some places to register a vehicle, especially a taxicab.

notion

  • n. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
  • n. A sentiment; an opinion.
  • n. (obsolete) Sense; mind.
  • n. (colloquial) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
  • n. Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, such as a button or zipper.
  • n. (colloquial) Inclination; intention; disposition.

object

  • n. A thing that has physical existence.
  • n. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
  • n. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase.…
  • n. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
  • n. (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists…
  • n. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
  • v. (intransitive) To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach;…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

palm

  • n. Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
  • n. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
  • n. The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the…
  • n. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
  • n. A linear measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of…
  • n. (sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle…
  • n. The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm…
  • n. (nautical) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
  • v. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
  • v. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
  • v. To move something with the palm of the hand.

slip

  • n. (obsolete) Mud, slime.
  • n. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
  • n. A twig or shoot; a cutting.
  • n. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
  • n. A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
  • n. A long, thin piece of something.
  • n. A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.
  • n. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It…
  • v. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
  • v. (intransitive) To err.
  • v. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
  • v. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or…
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
  • v. (transitive, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
  • v. (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly…
  • v. (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
  • v. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
  • v. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
  • v. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
  • n. An act or instance of slipping.
  • n. A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed…
  • n. A slipdress.
  • n. A mistake or error.
  • n. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
  • n. (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and…
  • n. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
  • n. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the…
  • n. A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field…
  • n. A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or…
  • n. An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
  • n. (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column…
  • n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
  • n. An outside covering or case.
  • n. (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
  • n. Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
  • n. (ceramics) An aqueous suspension of minerals, usually clay, used, among other things, to stick workpieces…
  • n. A particular quantity of yarn.
  • n. (Britain, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
  • n. (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
  • n. (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
  • n. (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an…
  • n. (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
  • n. A fish, the sole.

strip

  • n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
  • n. A comic strip.
  • n. A landing strip.
  • n. A strip steak.
  • n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  • n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  • n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  • n. Striptease.
  • n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
  • n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
  • v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
  • v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
  • v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
  • v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
  • v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  • v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
  • v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
  • v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
  • v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
  • v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
  • v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  • v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  • v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
  • v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

thread

  • n. A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving…
  • n. A theme or idea.
  • n. (engineering) A screw thread.
  • n. A sequence of connections.
  • n. The line midway between the banks of a stream.
  • n. (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources…
  • n. (Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first…
  • n. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
  • n. (figuratively) Composition; quality; fineness.
  • v. (transitive) To put thread through.
  • v. (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
  • v. To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.

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