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# bandage

«bandage» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strip of cloth or soft material wrapped around a part…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bandage, bandages); verb (bandage, bandages, bandaged, bandaging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bandage is a strip of cloth or soft material wrapped around a part of the body to cover and protect a wound or support an injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#m1)

2) To bandage means to wrap a bandage around a part of the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In first aid lessons, children learn that a bandage keeps a wound clean, presses to stop bleeding, and holds a dressing in place; it should be firm but not so tight it stops blood flow (check that fingers or toes stay warm and pink). A first aid kit has bandages and plasters. In stories a bandage shows someone has been hurt. Phrases: «put on a bandage», «wrap in a bandage», «a crêpe bandage», «a triangular bandage», «sling».

### examples

- The nurse put a bandage round my sprained ankle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#x1)
- Dad bandaged my knee after I fell off my bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#x2)
- Don't wrap the bandage too tightly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#x3)
- The first aid kit has bandages and plasters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#x4)
- His arm was in a bandage and a sling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#x5)
- The mummy in the museum was wrapped in bandages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#x6)
- We practised bandaging each other in first aid club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#x7)
- She took the bandage off after a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#x8)
- If Nana had been with them, she would have had a bandage round Michael’s forehead by this time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a bandage, bandages». In the US, «Band-Aid» (a brand) is a small sticky bandage, called «a plaster» in the UK, Ireland and Australia (or «sticking plaster»). A bandage that is too tight can hurt; loosen it if fingers go cold, blue or numb.

### In the corpora

- [In Australia, a firm pressure bandage and keeping the limb still is the first aid for snake and funnel-web spider bites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bandage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bandage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.