Brand : (noun)
1: a name given to a product or service [syn: trade name, brand
name, marque]
2: a recognizable kind; "there's a new brand of hero in the
movies now"; "what make of car is that?" [syn: make]
3: identification mark on skin, made by burning
4: a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning [syn: firebrand]
5: a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark
upon Cain"--Genesis [syn: mark, stigma, stain]
6: a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade [syn: sword,
blade, steel]
(verb)
1: burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals
2: to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as
disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She
was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of
wedlock" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise, denounce, mark]
3: mark or expose as infamous; "She was branded a loose woman"
[syn: post]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Brand : \Brand\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Branded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Branding.].
1. 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).
2. To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way,
as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of
manufacture, etc.
3. Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.
The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy.
--Prescott.
There were the enormities, branded and condemned by
the first and most natural verdict of common
humanity. --South.
4. To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.
As if it were branded on my mind. --Geo. Eliot.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Brand : \Brand\, n. [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.
[root]32. See Burn, v. t., and cf. Brandish.]
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. [Poetic] --Tennyson.
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. (Bot.) Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance
in plants. The brands are of many species and several
genera of the order Puccini[ae]i.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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