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Brand can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
brand used as an adjective:
- Associated with a particular product, service, or company.
"That computer company has brand recognition."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
brand used as a verb:
- To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.
"When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up." - To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
"The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime." - To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
"Her face is branded upon my memory." - To stigmatize, label (someone).
"He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story." - To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.
"They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
brand used as a noun:
- A piece of wood red-hot, or still burning, from the fire.
- A sword.
- A mark of ownership made by burning, e.g. on cattle.
- A branding iron.
- A name, symbol, logo, or other item used to distinguish a product or manufacturer from its competitors.
- A specific product or manufacturer so distinguished.
"Some brands of breakfast cereal have more sugar than is really healthy." - Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style, manner.
"I didn't appreciate his particular brand of flattery." - A product's attributes — name, appearance, reputation, and so on — taken collectively and abstractly.
"The company still has to do more to build the brand."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is brand?
- Adjective usage: That computer company has brand recognition.
- Adjective usage: Have we settled on our brand name?
- Verb usage: When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.
- Verb usage: The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.
- Verb usage: Her face is branded upon my memory.
- Verb usage: He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story.
- Verb usage: They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box.
- Noun usage: Some brands of breakfast cereal have more sugar than is really healthy.
- Noun usage: I didn't appreciate his particular brand of flattery.
- Noun usage: The company still has to do more to build the brand.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of brand are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of brand, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
