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Shopping	The largest selection of BRAND products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France.
TV Shop	As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products.

brand > 9 senses
NOUN	1	brand, trade name, brand name, marque	A name given to a product or service
	2	brand, make	A recognizable kind
	3	brand	Identification mark on skin, made by burning
	4	brand, firebrand	A piece of wood that has been burned or is burning
	5	brand, mark, stigma, stain	A symbol of disgrace or infamy
	6	brand, sword, blade, steel	A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
VERB	1	brand	Burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership
	2	brand, stigmatize, stigmatise, denounce, mark	To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
	3	brand, post	Mark or expose as infamous

brand > pronunciation
Sounds	brae'nd
Rhymes	ampersand, armband, backhand, and 87 more rhymes in aend...

brand > noun 1, communication
Meaning	A name given to a product or service.
Synonyms	trade name, brand name, marque
Usage of	Kinetoscope; Lidocaine, Xylocaine; Polaroid; Tampax; potassium chloride, potassium muriate, potash muriate, K-Dur 20, Kaochlor, K-lor, Klorvess, K-lyte; Simoniz
Broader	name
Narrower	label, recording label

brand > noun 2, cognition
Meaning	A recognizable kind.
Examples	"there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"
Synonyms	make
Broader	kind, sort, form, variety

brand > noun 3, communication
Meaning	Identification mark on skin, made by burning.
Broader	marker, marking, mark
Verbs	brand

brand > noun 4, substance
Meaning	A piece of wood that has been burned or is burning.
Synonyms	firebrand
Broader	firewood

brand > noun 5, communication
Meaning	A symbol of disgrace or infamy.
Synonyms	mark, stigma, stain
Broader	symbol
Narrower	demerit; bar sinister, bend sinister; cloven hoof, cloven foot
Verbs	brand; brand

brand > noun 6, artifact
Meaning	A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.
Synonyms	sword, blade, steel
Parts	blade; foible; forte; haft, helve; hilt; point, tip, peak
Broader	weapon, arm, weapon system
Narrower	backsword; broadsword; cavalry sword, saber, sabre; cutlas, cutlass; falchion; fencing sword; rapier, tuck
Instances	Excalibur

brand > verb 1, social
Meaning	Burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership. Of animals.
Pattern	Somebody ----s somebody something
Broader	mark
Nouns	brand

brand > verb 2, social
Meaning	To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
Synonyms	stigmatize, stigmatise, denounce, mark
Broader	label
Nouns	brand

brand > verb 3, communication
Meaning	Mark or expose as infamous.
Pattern	Somebody ----s somebody something
Examples	"She was branded a loose woman"
Synonyms	post
Broader	call
Nouns	brand

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