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brand (brand)

noun

  1. a stick that is burning or partially burned
  2. a mark burned on the skin with a hot iron, formerly used to punish and identify criminals, now used on cattle to show ownership
  3. the iron thus used
  4. a mark of disgrace; stigma
    1. an identifying mark or label on the products of a particular company; trademark
    2. the kind or make of a commodity a new brand of tea
    3. a special kind his brand of nonsense
  6. Archaic a sword

Etymology: ME < OE brand, brond, a flame, torch, sword < base of biernan, brinnan, burn

transitive verb

  1. to mark with or as with a brand
  2. to put a mark of disgrace on; stigmatize
  3. to market (products) by branding

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brand Synonyms

brand

n.

  1. A trademark

    brand name, make, seal, mark; see kind 2, label, name 1, trademark.

  2. A mark indicating ownership

    stigma, scar, sear, welt, cauterization, range brand, mark of the branding iron, earmark, wattle, owner's sign, owner's mark, heraldry of the range*, the rancher's coat of arms*; see also mark 1.

    Common branding terms include: circle, bar, cross, rocking, lazy, tumbling, swinging, flying, double; letters: A, J, X, etc.; numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, etc.

  3. Types of brands include: fast, slow, dewlap, overslope, underslope, crop, half crop, upperbit, underbit, jingle-bob, wattle, earmark.

  4. A burning stick

    ember, live coal, spark, torch; see embers.


brand

v.

blaze, stamp, imprint, stigmatize; see disgrace, mark 1.


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brand Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • cigarette: The branding of low tar cigarettes, using implied health claim terms such as ' light ' or ' mild ' is completely unjustified.

Converse of object

  • launch: Lakeside has launched a brand new incentive scheme for coach drivers.

Adjective modifier

  • leading: Brands A high level look at the digital cameras offered by the leading brands.

Modifies a noun

  • loyalty: The concept of market leader also links closely to a clear concept of brand development and brand loyalty.

Noun used with modifier

  • luxury: And the Maybach luxury car brand has been a disaster: sales are a fraction of those anticipated.
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brand quotes

'Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid, Edward, Edward, Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid, And why sae sad gang ye O?'

-Ballads

To Walden the saxophone was, at once, his key to the world in which he found himself, and the way by which that world was rendered impotent to brand him either a failure or madman or Negro or saint.

-Holmes,John Clellon

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