<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a woven strip or band of fine material, as silk or rayon, varying in width and finished off at the edges, used for ornament, tying, etc.</li><li>material in such strips</li><li>anything resembling or suggesting a ribbon or woven band</li><li>a band of inked material used in a typewriter, adding machine, etc., that supplies ink for printing the figure on the striking typeface onto the paper beneath</li><li>a strip of material, as satin or rayon, being or representing a medal or similar decoration, especially a military one: an overseas ribbon</li><li>ribbons, torn or ragged strips; shreds: clothes torn to ribbons</li><li>reins for driving</li><li>a long, thin flexible band of metal, as for a spring, a band saw, or a tape line</li><li>a thin horizontal piece attached to studding to support the ends of joists (Carpentry)</li><li>a distinctive narrow band or stripe painted along the exterior of a hull (Nautical)</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to adorn with ribbon</li><li>to mark with something suggesting ribbon</li><li>to separate into ribbonlike strips</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to form in ribbonlike strips</li></ul>