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English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbændɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]bandage (plural bandages)
- A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
- A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
- 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo [1]
- […] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
- 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo [1]
- (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
- This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
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Verb
[edit]bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)
- To apply a bandage to something.
- 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [2]
- ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.
- 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [2]
Deritedterms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to apply a bandage to something
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Anagrams
[edit]Danish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)
- bandage (medical binding)
Usage notes
[edit]This typically isn't used for adhesive bandages, which instead are called plastre.
Inflection
[edit]Declension of bandage
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | bandage | bandagen | bandager | bandagerne |
genitive | bandages | bandagens | bandagers | bandagernes |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bandage” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
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[edit]bandage f (plural bandages)
Derived terms
[edit]French
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[edit]bandage m (plural bandages)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bandage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
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[edit]bandage (plural bandages)
Norman
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Noun
[edit]bandage m (plural bandages)
Swedish
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[edit]bandage n
Declension
[edit]Declension of bandage | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bandage | bandaget | bandage | bandagen |
Genitive | bandages | bandagets | bandages | bandagens |
Related terms
[edit]- bandagera (“to bandage”)
See also
[edit]- plåster (“band-aid”)
References
[edit]- bandage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- bandage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- bandage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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