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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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... action was in a Court of Equity. It was not a prosecution in a Criminal Court. The decision of the Court was not a verdict of guilty against a prisoner, to be followed by punishment for wrong-doing, but an order to refund certain money. In ordinary circumstances a judgment of this kind does not brand a man with infamy, nor affect his character and position in the eyes of society. Again, after the judgment of the Court, Home promptly repaid the money. He had not appropriated or expended any part of it. What more could ...
— Psychic Phenomena - A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed - in Psychical Research • Edward T. Bennett
... the Apes had felt a warm, lithe form close pressed to his. Hot, sweet breath against his cheek and mouth had fanned a new flame to life within his breast, and perfect lips had clung to his in burning kisses that had seared a deep brand into his soul—a brand which marked a ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... is a new household and a brand-new baby in Naseby Dower House; and why the great Van Tromp lives in pleasant style upon the shores of England; and why twenty-six individual copies of the Thymebury Star are received daily at ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson
... be wax in my hands an' I can mold him an' public opinion right along together. He said he really did n't look for him to be any great trouble to feed because he'd be out pickin' up items most of the time, an' then too, he says he can always give him a handful of his new brand of dried apples as is advertised to be most puffin' an' fillin'; why, do you know, Mrs. Lathrop, he told me as he'd developed the process now to where if you eat two small pieces you feel like you never wanted another Thanksgivin' dinner as long as ...
— Susan Clegg and a Man in the House • Anne Warner
... machines. They all look good when freshly painted; it is not always possible to know what you have bought until a season or two of heavy use has passed. One tried-and-true aid to choosing quality is to ask equipment rental businesses what brand their customers are not able to destroy. Another guide is to observe the brand of gasoline ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon


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