(v. t.) A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
(v. t.) A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.
(v. t.) An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.
(v. t.) Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.
(v. t.) 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).
(v. t.) To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.
(v. t.) Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.
(v. t.) To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.
Example Sentences:
(1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(2) For the 18-month period from January 1988, 652 awards were made, consisting of 426 (65%) brand and 226 (35%) generic drugs.
(3) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(4) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(5) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(6) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
(7) The European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and the EU council president, Herman Van Rompuy, were both right to brand it unacceptable.
(8) Three brands of glass ionomer were applied to prepared dentin surfaces of extracted human molars, after one of four treatments with polyacrylic acid.
(9) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(10) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
(11) Chloramphenicol, dinitrophenol, and impurities present in some brands of agar all appear to inhibit the growth-medium-dependent branch of excision-repair.
(12) Its Google Preferred initiative, launched in October 2014, packages up its most popular channels into more appealing media buys for big brands.
(13) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
(14) Prick tests performed on 16 different condom brands showed that 4 brands caused positive reactions in 52-67% of patients.
(15) In the subsequent report into the row , the BBC concluded there was a "lack of direct control by Radio 2" over Brand's independent production company.
(16) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
(17) I buy ‘smart price’, own-brand cornflakes, rather than Kellogg’s, and I still get to the checkout and think, ‘That’s come to a lot again.’” Are you Daniel Blake?
(18) To circumvent this problem, 11 available brands of micropore filters (five prepacked and six to be packed and autoclaved) were investigated with the aim of finding the least toxic product.
(19) 40 women aged 18-36 used the Postinor brand, levonorgestrel-containing, pill from the Gedeon-Richter firm for 240 menstrual cycles.
(20) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
Marque
Definition:
(n.) A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals.
Example Sentences:
(1) darlingi from Costa Marques had a bimodal biting activity profile with a major peak at sunset and a minor peak at sunrise.
(2) The troubled carmakers General Motors and Chrysler pleaded for billions more dollars from the US government last night as they promised to axe further jobs, factories and marques in a desperate struggle for financial survival.
(3) What change do we foresee in #Angola?” Rafael Marques, an award-winning local journalist and writer, tweeted shortly after the news of the Angolan leader’s decision not to run next year was made public.
(4) Jiang reckons this boom in interest in the British marque was the result of its association with the British royal family.
(5) Marques admits it is a good time to be in opposition.
(6) Eric Eoin Marques is the subject of a US arrest warrant for distributing and promoting child abuse material online.
(7) Neurotraumatologic Unit at the University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla.
(8) Daimler, which owns the Mercedes-Benz marque, has been one of the slowest firms to appoint women to its eight-person board, appointing its first ever woman, a legal affairs specialist, in 2011.
(9) We have 850 employees and I’m always worried they are as happy as possible, but I can give no guarantee to make them all happy.” Niki Lauda, the marque’s nonexecutive chairman, was asked whether this was a tense time for Mercedes and said: “There might be some more discussions later today or tomorrow morning.
(10) We have previously shown that the increase in cAMP-binding activity during sporulation is due to de novo synthesis of R subunit and to an increase in the translatable mRNA coding for R (Marques et al., Eur.
(11) While VW remains the most popular marque in Germany, new registrations dropped by 2% in November, compared with the 8.9% rise enjoyed by the overall car industry.
(12) Marques, who is both a US and Irish national, will face the high court again on Thursday.
(13) His pronostic is marqued by high percentage of malign degenerescence.
(14) Thirteen species of anopheline mosquitoes were collected in all-night human-bait indoor and outdoor collections at 5 houses from July 1986 through December 1987 in and near the town of Costa Marques, Rondonia, Brazil.
(15) Rik Ferguson, vice-president of security research at Trend Micro, said he was awaiting further details to be made public as Marques is brought to trial, but that the takedown and related law enforcement "is great news for the campaign against child exploitation".
(16) Differences were found in specimens from Costa Marques, a malaria endemic area; Dourado, a site with a very exophilic population and Juturnaíba, located near the type locality.
(17) JLR said the new jobs at its advanced manufacturing plant in Solihull would be dedicated to increasing production of the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Discovery and Defender marques.
(18) Photograph: Marques Brownlee That made data centres a perfect fit for Duke, said Tom Williams, the company’s director of external relations.
(19) Standardised cancer morbidity incidence rates from three surveys: Lowveld (1962-67), Johannesburg (1953-55), and Lourenco Marques (1956-61) are also compared.
(20) Stoves launched a competition to invent a new Made in Britain marque after it found general confusion amongst consumers about whether products were British made.