brand
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Is brand a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style or manner.Examples: "I didn’t appreciate his particular brand of flattery."; "New Orleans brand sausage; Danish brand ham"; "[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam."broadly
2. (Scotland, Northern England) A torch used for signaling.Northern-EnglandScotland
3. (obsolete, rare) A flame.Examples: "Goe to prepare the maryages what neede the torchis light? be holde the towres of troy do shyne with brandes that blase full bright."; "Is yet againe thy brest enflamde, / with brande of venus might"obsoleterare
4. (obsolete, rare) A conflagration.obsoleterare
5. (archaic or poetic) A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder.Examples: "to burn something to brands and ashes"; "The fearful brands and bleezes of het fire."; "1859-1890, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof."archaicpoetic
6. (archaic) A sword.Examples: "Paradise, so late their happy seat, / Waved over by that flaming brand."; "The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, / The hard brands shiver on the steel, / The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, / The horse and rider reel: […]"archaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.Examples: "When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up."; "Man's flesh they eat: their own they paint and sear, / branding with burning iron, — usage fere!"transitive
2. (transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.Examples: "The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime."transitive
3. (transitive) To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.Examples: "Her face is branded upon my memory."transitive
4. (transitive) To stigmatize, label (someone).Examples: "He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story."; "I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer."; "As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours"."transitive
5. (transitive, marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.Examples: "They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box."transitive
6. (intransitive) To be very hot, to burn.Examples: "O, not for thee the glow, the bloom, Who changest not in any gale, Nor branding summer suns avail To touch thy thousand years of gloom: […]"intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary