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Brand   /brænd/   Listen
Brand

noun
1.
A name given to a product or service.  Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name.
2.
A recognizable kind.  Synonym: make.  "What make of car is that?"
3.
Identification mark on skin, made by burning.
4.
A piece of wood that has been burned or is burning.  Synonym: firebrand.
5.
A symbol of disgrace or infamy.  Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma.
6.
A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.  Synonyms: blade, steel, sword.
verb
(past & past part. branded; pres. part. branding)
1.
Burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals.
2.
To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful.  Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize.  "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"
3.
Mark with a brand or trademark.  Synonyms: brandmark, trademark.
4.
Mark or expose as infamous.  Synonym: post.



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"Brand" Quotes from Famous Books



... fault of mine, that I can see. I'll cut and run if I have the chance, for I cannot bear to see others placed over my head, as you and Bill Rayner have been, and to see him walking the quarter-deck in a brand new uniform, and talking to the officers as friendly and easy as if he had been born among them, while I, a gentleman's son, remain a foremast man, with every chance of being one to the ...
— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston
... brand-new, patent, revolution in cycling, record-breaking, Tomfoolishness, whatever it may be, the advertisement of which you have there ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome
... Mr. Adams bought a brand-new Colt's revolving rifle, that shot seven times, a revolving pistol (as it was termed), and two butcher-knives—one apiece, to be worn thrust through the belt. Charley donned the knife, just to see how it looked (and it looked very business-like), ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... twenty pounds. (Mr. Perkins had given me an extra month's wages. Mrs. Perkins had supplemented this by half a sovereign, six pairs of socks, three linen shirts, and half a dozen collars; and Mrs. Gabbitas had given me a brand new Bible and Prayer-book, with ornate bindings and perfectly blinding type, and another of the silk handkerchiefs ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... You'll not find any rustled calves with the Seven Mile brand on them. And we don't recognize any prior right. We came here legally. We intend to stay. Every time your riders club a bunch of our sheep, we'll even up on Twin Star cattle. You take my daughter captive; ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine


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