Meaning of brand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. brand (of clothing etc.)
3. A mark or scar made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark cattle or to classify the contents of a cask.
4. A municipality in Bludenz district, Vorarlberg, Austria.
   countable, uncountable
5. brand (for cattle)
6. A branding iron.
7. A municipality in Tirschenreuth district, Bavaria, Germany.
   countable, uncountable
8. mark (left on a surface)
9. The symbolic identity, represented by a name and/or a logo, which indicates a certain product or service to the public.
10. A borough of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
    countable, uncountable
11. print (fingerprint, footprint)
12. A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.
13. A hamlet in Beekdaelen municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.
    countable, uncountable
14. record; personal best
15. Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style or manner.
    broadly
16. The public image or reputation and recognized, typical style of an individual or group.
17. A mark of infamy; stigma.
18. Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.
19. A torch used for signaling.
    Northern-England, Scotland
20. A flame.
    obsolete, rare
21. A conflagration.
    obsolete, rare
22. A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder.
    archaic, poetic
23. A sword.
    archaic

Equivalents

Examples

““Well, in the first place, every cattleman has to have a brand to identify his stock. Without it no cattleman, nor half a hundred cowboys, if he had so many, could ever recognize all the cattle in a big herd. […]””

“The indelible word "homosexual," like a brand that grew deeper and redder every day, became increasingly hard to conceal and to ignore.”

“The Amtrak brand revitalization approach represents one of the most ambitious, comprehensive, and systematic experiential marketing approaches I have ever seen.”

“In this way, every Citibanker becomes a brand manager and an ambassador of the Citibank brand. ... Indeed, the Citibank brand will "never sleep"”

“Mr. Lundgren claimed that Federated had conducted a focus group and the analysis showed that most people were either indifferent to the name change or preferred the Macy's brand.”

“Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.”

“Some brands of breakfast cereal contain a lot of sugar.”

“I didn’t appreciate his particular brand of flattery.”

“New Orleans brand sausage; Danish brand ham”

“[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.”

“The Obama brand had taken a hit two months earlier, when he campaigned for Creigh Deeds in Virginia and Jon Corzine in New Jersey, only to see them both lose.”

“Her brand is edgy, cosmopolitan, and out-of-the-box, so blogging is the perfect, ever-changing match for her.”

“He unplugged my umbilical cord to take a leisurely swig, smirking, watching me turn blue before giving it back. My cardiologist told me that was impossible, but I'm still convinced. That's very on-brand for [my twin] Jamie.”

““We made fun of [Jacob Rees-Mogg] in the paper” — that would be Cherwell, Oxford’s student-run weekly, where Kuper was a reporter — “all the while not realizing that we were helping to build his brand.””

“Goe to prepare the maryages what neede the torchis light? be holde the towres of troy do shyne with brandes that blase full bright.”

“Is yet againe thy brest enflamde, / with brande of venus might”

“to burn something to brands and ashes”

“The fearful brands and bleezes of het fire.”

“1859-1890, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.”

“About three o'clock, we came to a recent camping place of the company of rangers: the brands of one of their fires were still smoking; so that, according to the opinion of Beatte, they could not have passed on above a day previously.”

“Or when amid the Grecians shippes, / he threw the brandes of fyre.”

“Paradise, so late their happy seat, / Waved over by that flaming brand.”

“The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, / The hard brands shiver on the steel, / The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, / The horse and rider reel: […]”

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