Brand

[brænd]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a recognizable kind; 'there's a new brand of hero in the movies now'; 'what make of car is that?'.

(noun.) identification mark on skin, made by burning.

(noun.) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning.

(verb.) mark with a brand or trademark; 'when this product is not branded it sells for a lower price'.

(verb.) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals.

整理:斯图--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

(v. t.) A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.

(v. t.) An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.

(v. t.) Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.

(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).

(v. t.) To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.

(v. t.) Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.

(v. t.) To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.

校對:奥菲莉娅

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Fire-brand.[2]. Mark (of a hot iron).[3]. Kind, quality.[4]. Stigma, stain, reproach.[5]. [Poetical.] Sword.

v. a. [1]. Mark (with a hot iron).[2]. Stigmatize, denounce.

贾尔斯錄入

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:denounce, stigmatize, disgrace, mark

ANT:Distinguish, honor, decorate

弗雷达錄入

解釋/意思:

n. a piece of wood burning or partly burned: a mark burned into anything with a hot iron: a trade-mark made by burning or otherwise as on casks: a particular sort of goods from the trade-marks by which they are known as cigars &c.: a sword so called from its glitter: a mark of infamy: a general name for the fungoid diseases or blights of grain crops—bunt mildew rust and smut.—v.t. to burn or mark with a hot iron: to fix a mark of infamy upon.—adj. Brand′ed.—n. Brand′er a gridiron.—v.t. to cook on the gridiron as beef-steaks.—p.adjs. Brand′ered Brand′ering.—ns. Brand′ing-ī′ron Brand′-ī′ron an iron to brand with: a trivet or tripod to set a pot or kettle upon: (Spens.) a sword—also Brand′ise a trivet; Brand′ling a red worm used by anglers found commonly in tan-pits.—adj. Brand′-new quite new (as if newly from the fire).—n. Brand′reth a stand of wood for a cask or hayrick a rail round a well.—A brand from the burning one snatched out of a pressing danger—from Amos iv. 11.

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