What is "ribbon"

Ribbon \Rib"bon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ribboned; p. pr. & vb. n. Ribboning.] To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

Ribbon \Rib"bon\, n. [OE. riban, OF. riban, F. ruban, probably of German origin; cf. D. ringband collar, necklace, E. ring circle, and band.] [Written also riband, ribband.]

1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

3. (Shipbuilding) Same as Rib-band.

4. pl. Driving reins. [Cant]
   --London Athen[ae]um.

5. (Her.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

6. (Spinning) A silver. Note: The blue ribbon, and The red ribbon, are phrases often used to designate the British orders of the Garter and of the Bath, respectively, the badges of which are suspended by ribbons of these colors. See Blue ribbon, under Blue. Ribbon fish. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. Any elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish of the family Trachypterid[ae], especially the species of the genus Trachypterus, and the oarfish ( Regelecus Banksii) of the North Atlantic, which is sometimes over twenty feet long.

   2. The hairtail, or bladefish.

   3. A small compressed marine fish of the genus Cepola, having a long, slender, tapering tail. The European species ( Cepola rubescens) is light red throughout. Called also band fish. Ribbon grass (Bot.), a variety of reed canary grass having the leaves stripped with green and white; -- called also Lady's garters. See Reed grass, under Reed. Ribbon seal (Zo["o]l.), a North Pacific seal ( Histriophoca fasciata). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously banded and striped with yellowish white. Ribbon snake (Zo["o]l.), a common North American snake ( Eutainia saurita). It is conspicuously striped with bright yellow and dark brown. Ribbon Society, a society in Ireland, founded in the early part of the 19th century in antagonism to the Orangemen. It afterwards became an organization of tennant farmers banded together to prevent eviction by landlords. It took its name from the green ribbon worn by members as a badge. Ribborn worm. (Zo["o]l.)

      1. A tapeworm.

      2. A nemertean.

early 14c., ribane, from Old French riban "a ribbon," variant of ruban (13c.), of unknown origin, possibly from a Germanic compound whose second element is related to band (n.1); compare Middle Dutch ringhband "necklace." Modern spelling is from mid-16c. Originally a stripe in a material. Custom of colored ribbon loops worn on lapels to declare support for some group perceived as suffering or oppressed began in 1991 with AIDS red ribbons.

n. 1 A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping. 2 An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer. 3 A narrow strip or shred. 4 (context shipbuilding English) (alternative form of ribband English) 5 (context slang dated in the plural English) Driving reins. 6 (context heraldry English) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide. 7 (context spinning English) A sliver. 8 (context computing graphical user interface English) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus. 9 (context cooking English) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip. vb. To decorate with ribbon.

1. n. any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a gray thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward" [syn: thread]

2. an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event [syn: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm]

3. a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter [syn: typewriter ribbon]

4. notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming

Ribbon is a component of rhythmic gymnastics composed of a handle (called "stick"), a ribbon and attachment.

Ribbon was a Japanese pop group that consisted of Hiromi Nagasaku, Arimi Matsuno and Aiko Satoh. It released its first single on 6 December 1989, and its final album before it disbanded on 18 March 1994.

Ribbon is a San Francisco payments startup that lets users sell online using a shortened URL that can be shared across email, social media and a seller's own website. The service focuses on bring integrated checkouts directly to platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter letting buyers purchase without leaving those services.

The company graduated from a startup accelerator called AngelPad as "Kout" in October 2011 and subsequently raised $1.6 million from Tim Draper through Draper Associates, Naguib Sawiris, Emil Michael, Gokul Rajaram, and others bringing its total raised amount to $1.75 million.

A ribbon or riband is a thin band of material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily as decorative binding and tying. Cloth ribbons are made of natural materials such as silk, velvet, cotton, and jute and of synthetic materials, such as polyester, nylon, and polyproylene. Ribbon is used for innumerable useful, ornamental, and symbolic purposes. Cultures around the world use ribbon in their hair, around the body, and as ornamentation on non-human animals, buildings, and packaging. Some popular fabrics used to make ribbons are satin, organza, sheer, silk, velvet, and grosgrain.

A ribbon is an award made from ribbon and presented to mark an achievement. Such ribbons usually have a pin, brooch or bridle clip as a fastener with which the award can be attached to clothing, animals, walls, or other surfaces.

Award ribbons can be simply a flat piece of ribbon, a flat-folded ribbon, or fancier manipulations of the ribbon material, such as rosettes. A rosette consists of ribbon that is pleated or gathered and arranged in a circle so that it resembles a rose, usually with streamer ribbons attached. Some ribbon rosettes will also have loops, petals and star points as part of the design whilst using Satin ribbons, Velvet ribbons, Sheer ribbons, Lamé ribbons, Tartan ribbons and printed ribbons including personalised printed ribbons to promote the sponsor, event or the reason for giving.

Ribbons are usually imprinted with information about the award, such as the name of the event, the sponsoring organization, the placement (such as first place, second place, etc.), and the date. More sophisticated awards also include the name of the recipient, special motifs and logos.

Ribbon rosette awards come in many sizes from 1 Tier (1 layer) up to super sized rosettes of (as standard) 20 Tiers. They can be glued together or sewn, however the centre disks always need to be stuck on with glue.

A ribbon rosette is made up with card backing disks to attach the pleated ribbon onto thus make the tiers of the rosette. Star points, petals and loops can be added, then chosen fastener, then tails and then the centre disk.

Rosettes can be used for awards for shows and events for all types: businesses, sports, hobbies and animals:- horses, dogs, cats, cattle, birds and ferrets, horticulture, business achievements, education as well as all disciplines of sports.

Celebration Rosettes are given to mark Birthdays, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Easter, Halloween or other special occasions like Weddings, Christenings and even Funerals. They can also come with a ribbon attachment allowing the rosettes to be hung up to display both sides, as some rosettes are produced back to back, creating two sides.

Rosettes are also produced in different shapes other than a circle, like ovals, squares, diamonds, rectangles and hearts.

Ribbon awards also come in different varieties like, medals, sashes and banners all of which can be personalised at many bespoke and wholesale companies from around the world.

Flower rosettes are seem to be new to the market since 2012, where particular flowers are stylised into a rosette. Flower rosettes so far include Daffodil Rosettes, Carnation Rosettes and Rose Rosettes all of which can be used as a gift or an award, as a single Flower Rosette or as a bunch of Flower Rosettes depending on the occasion as its use.

In computer interface design, a ribbon is a graphical control element in the form of a set of toolbars placed on several tabs. In 2007 Microsoft products began to introduce a form of modular ribbon as their main interface where large, tabbed toolbars, filled with graphical buttons and other graphical control elements, are grouped by functionality. Such ribbons use tabs to expose different sets of controls, eliminating the need for numerous parallel toolbars. Contextual tabs are tabs that appear only when the user needs them. For instance, in a word processor, an image-related tab may appear when the user selects an image in a document, allowing the user to interact with that image.

The usage of the term ribbon dates from the 1980s and was originally used as a synonym for what is now more commonly known as a (non-tabbed) toolbar. However, in 2007, Microsoft Office 2007 used the term to refer to its own implementation of tabbed toolbars bearing heterogeneous controls, which Microsoft calls "The Fluent UI". Thus, Microsoft popularized the term with a new meaning, although similar tabbed layouts of controls had existed in previous software from other vendors. The new design was intended to alleviate the problem of users not finding or knowing of the existence of available features in the Office suite.

A ribbon is a thin band of flexible material, typically of cloth. It may also refer to:

• Awareness ribbon a ribbon worn to signify sympathy for, and raise awareness of, a cause espoused by the wearer
• Ribbon (band), a Japanese J-pop group which consist of Hiromi Nagasaku, Arimi Matsuno and Aiko Satō.
• Ribbon bar, small devices worn by military, police, fire service personnel or by civilians.
• Ribbon cable, a cable with many conducting wires running parallel to each other on the same flat plane.
• Ribbon (company), an online payments company.
• Ribbon (computing), user interface concept.
• Ribbon diagram (or Richardson diagram), 3D schematic representation of protein structure
• Ribbon, Kentucky
• Ribbon knot, a restricted type of mathematical knot
• Ribbon (mathematics), a geometrical smooth strip
• Ribbon Ridge AVA, Oregon wine region in Yamhill County
• Ribbon Takanashi, Japanese professional wrestler
• Ribbon theory, a strand of mathematics within topology
• Ribbon, typewriter an inked band of fabric used for typewriters, receipt printers and dot-matrix printers
• Ribon, a monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine.

In mathematics ( differential geometry) by a ribbon (or strip) (X, U) is meant a smooth space curve X given by a three-dimensional vector X(s), depending continuously on the curve arc-length s (a ≤ s ≤ b), together with a smoothly varying unit vector U(s) perpendicular to X at each point (Blaschke 1950).

The ribbon (X, U) is called simple and closed if X is simple (i.e. without self-intersections) and closed and if U and all its derivatives agree at a and b. For any simple closed ribbon the curves X + ɛU given parametrically by X(s) + ɛU(s) are, for all sufficiently small positive ɛ, simple closed curves disjoint from X.

The ribbon concept plays an important role in the Cǎlugǎreǎnu-White-Fuller formula (Fuller 1971), that states that

Lk = Wr + Tw , 

where Lk is the asymptotic (Gauss) linking number (a topological quantity), Wr denotes the total writhing number (or simply writhe) and Tw is the total twist number (or simply twist).

Ribbon theory investigates geometric and topological aspects of a mathematical reference ribbon associated with physical and biological properties, such as those arising in topological fluid dynamics, DNA modeling and in material science.