BRACH

  

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BRACH

Definition: BRACH

BRACH

Noun

1. A bitch of the hound kind.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BRACH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Etymology: Brach \Brach\, noun. [from Old English expression brache kind of scenting hound or setting dog, Old French brache, braque, from Old High German. braccho, German bracke; possibly akin to English fragrant, from the Latin expression fragrare to smell.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: BRACH

Non-English Usage: "BRACH" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (breached, broke, fallow, infringed, refracted), Scottish (malt).

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Modern Usage: BRACH

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Yeah brach! doddley doo doo uh ah! (Clementine; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Movie/TV Titles

Meine Waffen sind nicht gebrochen - nur mein Herze brach (1972)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BRACH

DomainTitle

Books

  • Als das Eis brach : der Krieg zur See um Norwegen 1940 (reference)

  • Er brach das Brot : Eucharistiepredigten (reference)

  • Hot Blood: The Money, the Brach Heiress, the Horse Murders (St. Martin's True Crime Library) (reference)

  • Im Winter brach der Regenbogen : der deutsche Treck nach Texas (reference)

  • Judicial Staff Directory, Summer 2001: The Judicial Brach of the U.S. Government Federal & State Courts, Judges, Staffs Biographies (Judicial Staff Directories,2001) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: BRACH

Photos:
BRACH

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Name Usage Frequency: BRACH

The following table summarizes the usage of "BRACH" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BrachLast name13058,312
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRACH

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

brach michelle

32

brach

22

brach candy

14

helen brach

10

brach tara

8

brach eichler

7

brach brock

6

brach lyrics michelle

6

brach foundation helen

6

brach brock confections

5

brach candy company

4

brach happy lyrics michelle now

3

brach frank

2

brach marion

2

brach myrtle

2

brach michell

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BRACH

Language Translations for "BRACH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

pars transversa rami sinistri venae portae (transverse part of the left brach of the portal vein). (various references)

   

German

  

Pars transversa rami sinistri venae portae (transverse part of the left brach of the portal vein). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγκάρσια μοίρα του αριστερού κλάδου της πυλαίας φλεβός (transverse part of the left brach of the portal vein). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

achbray

   

Portuguese

  

porção transversal do ramo esquerdo da veia porta (transverse part of the left brach of the portal vein). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

parte transversal de la rama izquierda de la vena portal (transverse part of the left brach of the portal vein). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

шукач-сучка. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BRACH

Derivations

Words beginning with "BRACH": braches, brachet, brachets, brachia, brachial, brachials, brachiate, brachiated, brachiates, brachiating, brachiation, brachiations, brachiator, brachiators, brachiopod, brachiopods, brachium, brachs, brachycephalic, brachycephalies, brachycephaly, brachypterous. (additional references)

Words ending with "BRACH": amphibrach, tribrach. (additional references)

Words containing "BRACH": abrachia, abrachias, amphibrachic, amphibrachs, quebracho, quebrachos, tribrachic, tribrachs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BRACH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barakah, Barcham, Barchuk, Bardach, Beragh, Bhachu, Biachu, Boalch, Borak, Brachot, bracht, Brachty, brachy, Braich, Brapho, brasch, bratch, brauch, Brech, Bresch, Bretch, Brisch, Bruach, Burak, Gracchi, Gracht. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BRACH"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BRACH" (pronounced bra"kh)
3-r a" khscratch.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BRACH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-r"

-1 letter: arch, bach, carb, char, crab.

-2 letters: arb, arc, bah, bar, bra, cab, car, rah.

-3 letters: ab, ah, ar, ba, ha.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-h-r"
 

+1 letter: brachs, branch, breach, broach.

 

+2 letters: abroach, barchan, batcher, becharm, braches, brachet, brachia, branchy, brecham, brechan, chamber.

 

+3 letters: abrachia, bachelor, backrush, barchans, barouche, batchers, beachier, becharms, bedchair, berdache, blancher, bleacher, brachets, brachial, brachium, brackish, branched, branches, branchia, breached, breacher, breaches, brechams, brechans, broached, broacher, broaches, bronchia, chambers, chambray, choriamb, hardback, rebranch, roorbach, tribrach.

 

+4 letters: abrachias, acrophobe, bachelors, barouches, beachgoer, beachwear, becharmed, bedchairs, benchmark, berdaches, blanchers, bleachers, brachials, brachiate, branchiae, branchial, branchier, branching, branchlet, breachers, breaching, broachers, broaching, bronchial, brushback, carbachol, chambered, chambrays, charabanc, charbroil, chipboard, choriambs, crushable, debaucher, hackberry, hardbacks, horseback, quebracho, reachable, roorbachs, subbranch, subchaser, thornback, throwback, tribrachs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BRACH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 52 41 43 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-.    .-    -.-.    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0041 0043 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3652353742

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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