Ban
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To forbid or block from participation.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: prohibition A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian leu A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian леу A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
Example sentence: It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's when we should've taken away guns and defined what militias were. But we didn't do it then, and we can't now.
Banning
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To summon; to call out.
Example sentence: It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.