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noun

kind, grade, or make, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like: the best brand of coffee.

a mark made by burning or otherwise, to indicate kind, grade, make, ownership, etc.

a mark formerly put upon criminals with a hot iron.

any mark of disgrace; stigma.

branding iron.

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a kind or variety of something distinguished by some distinctive characteristic: The movie was filled with slapstick—a brand of humor he did not find funny.

a burning or partly burned piece of wood.

Archaic. a sword.

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verb (used with object)

to label or mark with or as if with a brand.

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to mark with disgrace or infamy; stigmatize.

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to impress indelibly: The plane crash was branded on her mind.

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to give a brand name to: branded merchandise.

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to promote as a brand name.

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to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.

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Origin:
before 950; Middle English, Old English: burning, a burning piece of wood, torch, sword; cognate with Dutch brand, German Brand, Old Norse brandr; akin to burn¹

Related forms

brand·er, noun

brand·less, adjective

non·brand, adjective

re·brand, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
4. stain, spot, blot, taint.

Example Sentences

After a brand is discontinued, what's left is a name and the memories in consumers' minds.

Expertise in social media marketing, personal image management and/or brand management is preferred.

Polishing your nation's brand is an expensive and often futile endeavour.

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After a brand is discontinued, what's left is a name and the memories in consumers' minds.

Expertise in social media marketing, personal image management and/or brand management is preferred.

Polishing your nation's brand is an expensive and often futile endeavour.

If you have an allegiance to one brand or the other, buy your fave.

Take a look at the complete line-up of bloggers at our brand new blog network.

Their brand of soulfulness is more about group study than zipping your lips.

I've already paid for the game, so it seems a little bit unreasonable for it to brand the pictures my kids create on it.

They had a lot of advantages: brand names, highly skilled staff members, money in the bank.

The benefits and pitfalls behind acquiring an existing brand abroad.

Domier and his team are back with brand new tracking devices.

They said in effect that smoking was good for you and doctors recommended their brand more than any and so on.

Write the brand and color on the other side so you can match it in the future.

But picking an e-book reader is more difficult than choosing a brand of cereal or a bottle of shampoo.

They worry that extending their reach might dilute their brand.

These shops were selling knockoff brand name clothes, nothing posh at all.

That's the view of a rugged new brand of athletes called adventure racers.

There are a lot of reasons to consider giving your company's brand a makeover.

For an iconic brand with affluent customers, volatility on this scale does not do nicely.

The amount needed varies from brand to brand, look on the packaging, it should say how much you need.

Singapore's unique brand of capitalism needs an overhaul.

But one final tidbit of information is the breaking down of reliability by brand.

The continuity of the brand name helps to disguise the fact that the product itself has been through several life cycles.

Moreover, the people who spend their lives creating new logos and brand names have a peculiar weakness for management drivel.

Failure to keep up this facade can easily, if mistakenly, brand you as petty or money-grubbing.

Within a month, the lava had created a brand new volcanic mountain.

For example, one study has shown that knowing the ingredients and name brand of a beer can increase the drinker's pleasure.

Brand new exhibits include a children's discovery area.

It would probably be brand first and technology second.

Now consider how to brand yourself to others as a positive colleague.

The company's production cycles are too slow to keep pace with rivals, prices have risen and the brand has lost its shine.

For details on pricing and rate base specifics, please contact your brand manager.

But people can be induced to try a different brand that they might like.

We have excellent schools, brand new library and public safety buildings, even a skateboard park.

It often takes me a few weeks or months to figure out which students are brand new to higher education.

Its brand names litter the highways and high streets of the world.

Rodeo evolved from the often dangerous tactics cowboys used to break horses and to catch and brand cattle.

Since there has been a consistent interest in the health effects of this brand new substance.

The update tweaks existing features and adds a few brand new ones.

Players can also design brand new proteins that could help prevent or treat important diseases.

If solar powered apparel is to make it into the mainstream, then it needs to be pushed by a mainstream brand.

However, the one who has perfected the silent treatment is brand spankin' new.

Prestige is gained by having highly published tenured faculty and brand new costly facilities.

Sometimes these courses are brand new, sometimes, re-runs.

RC is well known for censoring and removing questions and comments that do not follow it's own particular brand of eco-religion.

Nah, this would probably both raise legal concerns and brand your department as a bad egg for years to come.

The rifling characteristics alone can reveal what brand and/or model of firearm could have fired a specific projectile.

Some local supermarkets with pharmacies, meantime, are now providing generic brand antibiotics at no cost.

They misspell every other word and even the brand of their own vehicle.

Do they brand people or ideas with labels such as zealots, localized or anecdotal.

Lowering the sodium in one brand of soup won t help us reduce the amount of salt in our diets.

GM's international strategy isn't about focusing on a single brand.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

Oscar, born 1920, U.S. folk singer, born in Canada.

a male given name.

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World English Dictionary

brand (brænd)

—n
1.	a particular product or a characteristic that serves to identify a particular product
2.	a trade name or trademark
3.	a particular kind or variety: he had his own brand of humour
4.	an identifying mark made, usually by burning, on the skin of animals or (formerly) slaves or criminals, esp as a proof of ownership
5.	an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
6.	a mark of disgrace or infamy; stigma: he bore the brand of a coward
7.	a burning or burnt piece of wood, as in a fire
8.	archaic, poetic or
	a. a flaming torch
	b. a sword
9.	a fungal disease of garden plants characterized by brown spots on the leaves, caused by the rust fungus Puccinia arenariae

—vb
10.	to label, burn, or mark with or as with a brand
11.	to place indelibly in the memory: the scene of slaughter was branded in their minds
12.	to denounce; stigmatize: they branded him a traitor
13.	to give a product a distinctive identity by means of characteristic design, packaging, etc

[Old English brand-, related to Old Norse brandr, Old High German brant; see burn¹]

'branding

—n

'brander

—n

Brand (brænd)

—n
	Russell, born 1975, English comedian and television presenter

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Word Origin & History

brand

O.E. brand, brond "fire, flame; firebrand, piece of burning wood, torch," and (poetic) "sword," from P.Gmc. *brandaz (cf. O.N. brandr, O.H.G. brant, O.Fris. brond "firebrand, blade of a sword," Ger. brand "fire"), from base *bran-/*bren- (see burn). Meaning of "identifying

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mark made by a hot iron" (1550s) broadened 1827 to "a particular make of goods." Brand name is from 1922. As a verb, brand is attested from c.1400. Related: Branded; branding.

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