WRISTBAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wristband mean? 

• WRISTBAND (noun)
  The noun WRISTBAND has 2 senses:

1. band consisting of a part of a sleeve that covers the wrist

2. a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist

  Familiarity information: WRISTBAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRISTBAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Band consisting of a part of a sleeve that covers the wrist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wristband" is a kind of...):

band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

Holonyms ("wristband" is a part of...):

arm; sleeve (the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bracelet; watch bracelet; watchband; watchstrap; wristband

Hypernyms ("wristband" is a kind of...):

band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

 Context examples 

His papers were found burned in the grate, his wristband was clutched in the dead man’s hand, and his knife lay beside the body.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Miss Meg March, one letter and a glove," continued Beth, delivering the articles to her sister, who sat near her mother, stitching wristbands.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They starched two hundred white shirts, with a single gathering movement seizing a shirt so that the wristbands, neckband, yoke, and bosom protruded beyond the circling right hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She wore at her side a gentleman's gold watch, if I might judge from its size and make, with an appropriate chain and seals; she had some linen at her throat not unlike a shirt-collar, and things at her wrists like little shirt-wristbands.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The paper-based sensor, which can be worn as a wristband, features happy and sad emoticon faces—drawn in an invisible UV-sensitive ink—that successively light up as you reach 25%, 50%, 75% and finally 100% of your daily recommended UV exposure.

(New wristband provides personalised and real-time tracking of UV exposure, University of Granada)

By this means he ironed the yoke, wristbands, and neckband, setting the latter at right angles to the shirt, and put the glossy finish on the bosom.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Poor Jo, how she did glorify that plain man, as she sat knitting away so quietly, yet letting nothing escape her, not even the fact that Mr. Bhaer actually had gold sleeve-buttons in his immaculate wristbands.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The research team have also created six versions of the colour-changing wristbands, each of which is personalised for a specific skin tone — an important characteristic given that darker people need more sun exposure to produce vitamin D, which is essential for healthy bones, teeth and muscles.

(New wristband provides personalised and real-time tracking of UV exposure, University of Granada)