brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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(noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
(noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
(noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
(noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
(noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
(verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
(verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
(verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
(verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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(adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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(verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
(verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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brandy | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
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brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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brandysnap | (noun) a gingersnap flavored with brandy | - |
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brant | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant goose, brent, brent goose |
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brash | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: cheeky, nervy |
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brashly | (adverb) in a brash cheeky manner | Synonyms: cheekily, nervily |
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brashness | (noun) the trait of being rash and hasty | - |
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(noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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brass | (noun) a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece | Synonyms: brass instrument |
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(noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: memorial tablet, plaque |
(noun) an ornament or utensil made of brass | - |
(noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, cheek, face, nerve |
(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
(noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments | Synonyms: brass section |
(noun) an alloy of copper and zinc | - |
brassard | (noun) armor plate that protects the arm | - |
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brassavola | (noun) any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7 | - |
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brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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(adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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brasslike | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brassy |
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brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
brat | (noun) a very troublesome child | Synonyms: holy terror, little terror, terror |
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(noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: bratwurst |
brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
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(verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
brattiness | (noun) The state or condition of acting like a brat, being unruly and impolite. | - |
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brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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bratty | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: brattish |
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bratwurst | (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: brat |
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bravado | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bluster |
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brave | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: courageous |
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(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
(adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: braw, gay |
(noun) people who are brave | - |
(noun) a North American Indian warrior | - |
(verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave out, endure, weather |
bravely | (adverb) in a courageous manner | Synonyms: courageously |
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braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
bravo | (noun) a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance | - |
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(noun) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | Synonyms: assassin, assassinator |
(verb) applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava' | - |
bravura | (noun) brilliant and showy technical skill | - |
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braw | (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, gay |
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brawl | (noun) a noisy fight in a crowd | Synonyms: free-for-all |
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(noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, do |
(verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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brawn | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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brawniness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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brawny | (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
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bray | (noun) the cry of an ass | - |
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(verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
(verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
(verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
braze | (verb) solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point | - |
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brazen | (adjective) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) | - |
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(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent |
(verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
brazenly | (adverb) in a brazen manner | - |
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brazenness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: shamelessness |
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brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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brazil | (noun) three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell | Synonyms: brazil nut |
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brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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(noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |