brace | (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: bracing |
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(noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: bitstock |
(noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities | Synonyms: braces, orthodontic braces |
(noun) a support that steadies or strengthens something else | - |
(noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: gallus, suspender |
(noun) a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it | - |
(noun) either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material | - |
(noun) a set of two similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: pair |
(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
bracelet | (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bangle |
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(noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap, wristband |
bracer | (noun) a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
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(noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: armguard |
bracero | (noun) a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II | - |
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braces | (noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities | Synonyms: brace, orthodontic braces |
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brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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brachiopod | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
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brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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brachium | (noun) (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal | - |
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brachycephalic | (noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
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brachycephalism | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephaly |
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brachycephaly | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephalism |
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brachydactylia | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactyly |
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brachydactyly | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactylia |
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brachyuran | (noun) typical crabs | - |
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bracing | (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: brace |
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bracken | (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: brake, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
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(noun) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions | Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum |
bracket | (noun) a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) | Synonyms: wall bracket |
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(noun) either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: square bracket |
(noun) either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: angle bracket |
(noun) a category falling within certain defined limits | - |
brackishness | (noun) the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water | - |
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bract | (noun) a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence | - |
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bracteole | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bractlet |
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bractlet | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bracteole |
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