Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To apply an adhesive bandage.

    As a school nurse, Pat was used to band-aiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.

  2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive)To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

    Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

    залата́тьzalatátʹ, пофи́кситьpofíksitʹ

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig:

Origin

Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as

Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as band(age) + aid.

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Forms

band-aids, band-aiding, band-aided, band-aided
Base formband-aid · to band-aid
3rd person singularband-aids
Present participleband-aiding
Past simpleband-aided
Past participleband-aided

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyband-aid
he, she, itband-aids

Past simpleLesson

all personsband-aided

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave band-aided
he, she, ithas band-aided

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill band-aid

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bananaA1bandA1bandageB1bandanabandit
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