Definition of "ban" in английский

verb

1. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.

   • Bare feet are banned in this establishment.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.

3. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.

4. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.

5. (ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

noun

1. A prohibition.

2. A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.

3. The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.

   • […] he hath sente abroade to assemble his van and arriere van; wherby, and with the reste of his forces, he prepareth him selfe to enter this countrey; […]

4. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.

5. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

noun

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.

2. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.

noun

1. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

noun

1. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.