Ribbon vs. Rosette — What's the Difference?

A ribbon or riband is a thin band of material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily as decorative binding and tying. Cloth ribbons are made of natural materials such as silk, cotton, and jute and of synthetic materials, such as polyester, nylon, and polypropylene.

An ornament or badge made of ribbon or silk that is pleated or gathered to resemble a rose and is given as an award, used to decorate clothing, or worn in the buttonhole of civilian dress to indicate the possession of certain medals or honors.

A narrow strip or band of fabric, especially a fine fabric such as satin or velvet, finished at the edges and used for trimming, tying, or finishing.

A roselike marking or formation, such as one of the clusters of spots on a leopard's fur.

Something, such as a tape measure, that resembles a ribbon.

(Architecture) A painted, carved, or sculptured ornament having a circular arrangement of parts radiating out from the center and suggesting the petals of a rose.

A long thin strip

(Botany) A circular cluster of leaves that radiate from a center at or close to the ground, as in the dandelion.

Ribbons Tattered or ragged strips

An ornamental circular band surrounding the central hole of an acoustic guitar.

An inked strip of cloth used for making an impression, as in a typewriter.

An airy, deep-fried cookie in the shape of a flower, usually sprinkled with confectioners' sugar.

A band of colored cloth signifying membership in an order or the award of a prize.

Food formed or cut into the shape of a rose

A strip of colored cloth worn on the left breast of a uniform to indicate the award of a medal or decoration.

An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.

Ribbons(Informal) Reins for driving horses.

(architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.

See ledger board.

(music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.

To decorate or tie with ribbons.

A red color.

To tear into ribbons or shreds.

A rose burner.

A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.

(botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.

An awareness ribbon.

(botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.

An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.

(zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.

A narrow strip or shred.

(zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.

(cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.

A floral pattern in latte art.

(shipbuilding) ribband

(medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.

(nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.

(cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.

A watchspring.

(cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.

A bandsaw.

A form of knot.

Reins for a horse.

A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.

(heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

(oceanography) A rosette sampler.

(spinning) A sliver.

(pathology) worm-star

(journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.

An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, - used as an ornament or a badge.

A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.

An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.

(transitive) To decorate with ribbon.

A red color. See Roset.

(transitive) To stripe or streak.

A rose burner. See under Rose.

A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.

A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

An ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor

Same as Rib-band.

Rhizoctinia disease of potatoes

Driving reins.

A cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)

A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

Circular window filled with tracery

A silver.

To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

Any long object resembling a thin line;

An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

A long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter

Notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming