transcription, транскрипция: [ brænd ]
( brands, branding, branded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A brand of a product is the version of it that is made by one particular manufacturer.
Winston is a brand of cigarette...
I bought one of the leading brands.
...a supermarket’s own brand.
= make
N-COUNT : oft N of n , adj N
2.
A brand of something such as a way of thinking or behaving is a particular kind of it.
The British brand of socialism was more interested in reform than revolution.
= strain
N-COUNT : N of n
3.
If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing.
I was instantly branded as a rebel...
The company has been branded racist by some of its own staff...
The US administration recently branded him a war criminal.
= label
VERB : be V-ed as n , be V-ed adj , V n n , also V n as n , V n adj
4.
When you brand an animal, you put a permanent mark on its skin in order to show who it belongs to, usually by burning a mark onto its skin.
The owner couldn’t be bothered to brand the cattle.
VERB : V n
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Brand is also a noun.
A brand was a mark of ownership burned into the hide of an animal with a hot iron.
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5.
A brand is a permanent mark on the skin of an animal, which shows who it belongs to.
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