📏 Long surface streaks 🥕 Cutting into strips 🎀 Decorating with ribbons

ribboning

5.1

Cutting food and fabric into long thin strips for cooking or craft

noun

: corte en tiras

The chef demonstrated ribboning carrots to create an elegant garnish.

Examples

So we can divide this up into a little thin ribbons, and each ribbon the speed of light is different.
She enjoyed ribboning the vegetables into thin strips for the salad.
One of the descriptions of the beef is is thin, juicy ribbons of beef ribbons.
For crafts, start ribboning paper to make beautiful decorations.

Synonyms

cutting

vsribboning

70 2.7

Making an opening or removing part from something with a sharp tool

is limited to making long thin strips rather than general material removal

slicing

vsribboning

2 1.9

Cutting food into thin pieces for eating or cooking

forms long thin strips rather than short flat pieces

Antonyms

whole

∞ 1.0

Complete and not broken or divided

How Thin

shred

49 2.2

to julienne

Specialized

1 6.8

ribboning

5.1

slicing

2 1.9

Surface Forms

ribboning singular

ribbonings plural

Morphology

ribboning = ribbon (transparent) = ribbon + ing

A straightforward gerund/nominalization of the verb 'ribbon' meaning 'to cut into ribbons'; the relation is directly inferable.

Etymology

Ribboning comes from ribbon, which means a 'long, thin strip' of material. So, to do ribboning with vegetables, fabric, or paper is to cut or slice them into long thin strips that look like ribbons.