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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



... brand, the lad moved off in that direction, whirling the torch around his head until it burst into clear flame, then lowering it closer to a bloody heap of fur and powerful limbs, to give a short ejaculation of ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.
... irritating reserve in the homage paid him? was there not a touch of condescension in the friendship of his royal neighbors? And had he not always a Mordecai at his gate—while the Faubourg St. Germain stood aloof and disdainful, smiling at his brand-new aristocracy? ...
— A Short History of France • Mary Platt Parmele
... was everything bearing the brand of George Washington, that a barrel of flour marked "George Washington, Mount Vernon," was exempted from the customary inspection in the ...
— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden
... spelled with a B, however, in my copy of the specification, and I asked your man Scales about it. 'Oh,' said he, 'that's a misprint in the typewriting,' and he changed the B to P with a lead pencil. Under that shed are about a thousand barrels of Bortland cement. I never heard of that brand, but I can tell cement when I see it, and this stuff will have no more adhesive power than plain mud. Bedford stone was specified. They have several car-loads of stone dumped down here which is not Bedford stone at all. I could tell a piece of Bedford in the dark. This is an inferior rock which ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... think of it as a sample experience—and the last of that particular brand. I got nine dollars a week and earned every cent of it inhaling the atmosphere. My board cost me six and the other three afforded me a chance to demonstrate myself a captain of finance—paying laundry bills and clothing myself, besides buying lunches and ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance


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