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Meaning of Brad | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
bɹad

Definitions

  1. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
  2. A binary radian.
  3. A diminutive of the male given names Bradley, Bradly, or Bradford, also used as a formal given name.
  4. A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
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  5. A city in Hunedoara County, Romania.

Equivalents

العربية المشبك
Български клинец
Deutsch Tannenhof
Ελληνικά καρφάκι πρόκα
Français Brad
Magyar Brád
Polski ćwiek
Română brad

Examples

“Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.”
“[…] Brad Schimel wants to make sure women don’t have the right to make their own health care decisions. If he wins, that right is gone,” Crawford says in the ad.”
“As journalist Brad Polumbo pointed out, Kirk previously wrote on X: "Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There's ugly speech. There's gross speech. There's evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free."”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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