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Definition of Brand

1. Verb. Burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals.

2. Noun. A name given to a product or service.

3. Verb. To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful. "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"

4. Noun. A recognizable kind. "What make of car is that?"

5. Verb. Mark with a brand or trademark. "When this product is not branded it sells for a lower price"

6. Noun. Identification mark on skin, made by burning.

7. Verb. Mark or expose as infamous. "She was branded a loose woman"

8. Noun. A piece of wood that has been burned or is burning.

9. Noun. A symbol of disgrace or infamy. "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"

10. Noun. A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.

Definition of Brand

1. n. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

2. v. t. To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).

Definition of Brand

1. Noun. (archaic or poetic) A piece of wood red-hot, or still burning, from the fire. ¹

2. Noun. (archaic) A sword. ¹

3. Noun. A mark of ownership made by burning, e.g. on cattle. ¹

4. Noun. A branding iron. ¹

5. Noun. A name, symbol, logo, or other item used to distinguish a product, service, or it provider. ¹

6. Noun. A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished. ¹

7. Noun. Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style, manner. ¹

8. Noun. The reputation among some population of an organization, of the products sold under a particular brand name, or of a person. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound. ¹

10. Verb. (transitive) To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership. ¹

11. Verb. (transitive) To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses. ¹

12. Verb. (transitive) To stigmatize, label (someone). ¹

13. Verb. (transitive marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images. ¹

14. Adjective. (context: advertising) Associated with a particular product, service, or company. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brand

1. to mark with a hot iron [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Brand

1. 1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. "Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof." (Palfrey) 2. A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. "Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand." (Milton) 3. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc, of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour. 4. A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma. "The brand of private vice." (Channing) 5. An instrument to brand with; a branding iron. 6. Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei. Origin: OE. Brand, brond, AS. Brand brond brand, sword, from byrnan, beornan, to burn; akin to D, Dan, Sw, & G. Brand brand, Icel. Brandr a brand, blade of a sword. See Burn, and cf. Brandish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brand

branchiostegals branchiostege branchiosteges branchiostegous branchiostoma branchiura branchless branchlet branchlets branchlike

branchline branchlines brancht branchwork branchy brand (current term) brand-name brand-name drug brand-names brand-new

brand-newness brand avatar brand geese brand goose brand image brand images brand linkage brand name brand names brand new

Literary usage of Brand

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"brand maintained children of indigent parente, and put them to trades. ... brand spent little on himself. His charities were computed to amount to above ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Complainant prayed process and that the defendants might answer the bill under oath ; that the two deeds of B. Mackall, Sr., trustee, and brand, trustee, ..."

3. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1875)
"The patriot Leofric, Leofric, wounded in the great battle, had found his way I home, and had died on the festival of All Saints.1 The brand monks of his ..."

4. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them foon j 645 The ..."

5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1907)
"brand WHITLOCK. Mayor of Toledo brand WHITLOCK Author of THE ... DISTRICT brand Whitlock's first novel, THE 13TH DISTRICT, has bee/" called by President ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"... a certain private brand of the seller, and a provision that the buyer need not take more than the quantity of liquor he could sell under said brand, ..."

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