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Webster 1913 Edition


Brad

Brad

,
Noun.
[Cf. OE.
brod
, Dan.
braad
prick, sting,
brodde
ice spur, frost nail, Sw.
brodd
frost nail, Icel.
broddr
any pointed piece of iron or stell; akin to AS.
brord
point, spire of grass, and perh. to E.
bristle
. See
Bristle
,
Noun.
]
A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

Webster 1828 Edition


Brad

BRAD

, in Sax., is broad, and occurs in names; as in Bradford, broadford.

BRAD

,
Noun.
A particular kind of nail,used in floors and other work, where it is deemed proper to drive nails entirely into the wood. For this purpose, it is made without a broad head or shoulder over the shank.

Definition 2024


Brad

Brad

See also: brad, bråd, and bráð

English

Proper noun

Brad

  1. A diminutive of the male given names Bradley, Bradly, or Bradford.
  2. A male given name

Anagrams

brad

brad

See also: Brad, bråd, and bráð

English

Noun

brad (plural brads)

A brad (stationary fastener)
  1. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
    • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 5:
      Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.
  2. (US, elementary school usage, particularly kindergarten and primary grades) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

brad (third-person singular simple present brads, present participle bradding, simple past and past participle bradded)

  1. (transitive) To attach using a brad.

Anagrams


Aromanian

Etymology

Possibly a borrowing from Proto-Albanian *brada (modern Albanian bredh), or alternatively a substrate cognate of it, and ultimately from an Indo-European source either way. Compare Megleno-Romanian and Daco-Romanian brad.

Noun

brad m (plural bradz)

  1. fir tree

Derived terms

See also


Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bˠɾˠad̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish brat (spoil, plunder, robbery).

Noun

brad f (genitive singular braide)

  1. (literary) plunder
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

brad (present analytic bradann, future analytic bradfaidh, verbal noun bradadh, past participle bradta)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of bradaigh (steal, pilfer; remove gently; steal away)
Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
brad bhrad mbrad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "brad" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • 1 brat” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

Possibly a borrowing from Proto-Albanian *brada (modern Albanian bredh), or alternatively a substrate cognate of it, and ultimately from an Indo-European source either way. Compare Aromanian and Daco-Romanian brad.

Noun

brad

  1. fir tree

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *braidaz. Compare Old Frisian brēd (West Frisian breed), Old Saxon brēd (Low German breed, breet), Dutch breed, Old High German breit (German breit), Old Norse breiðr (Danish and Swedish bred), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs).

Pronunciation

Adjective

brād

  1. broad

Declension

Descendants


Romanian

Etymology

Possibly a borrowing from Proto-Albanian *brada (modern Albanian bredh), or alternatively a substratum cognate of it, and ultimately from an Indo-European source either way (a borrowing directly from (modern) Albanian would have presumably produced a form *brez). [1] Another theory suggests that it was reformed analogically from the plural brazi, and that the original form was *braz (reinterpreted as a plural, modeled on plurals such as coadă > cozi, pradă > prăzi, surd, > surzi). See also the Romanian alpine toponyms containing Breaza, which may correspond to the Albanian plural form bredha [2]. Compare also Aromanian brad.

Noun

brad m (plural brazi)

  1. fir, Abies alba.
  2. pine tree.
  3. pine wood.

Declension

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. Romanian Explanatory Dictionary
  2. https://dexonline.ro/articol/Despre_leg%C4%83turile_rom%C3%A2nei_cu_albaneza

Volapük

Noun

brad (plural brads)

  1. arm

Declension


Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brɑːd/

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *brad, from Proto-Celtic *mratom.

Noun

brad m (uncountable)

  1. treason
  2. treachery

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
brad frad mrad unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.