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Definition: Braces |
BracesNoun1. An appliance that corrects dental irregularities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "braces" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: Brittish term for suspenders. Definition: Suspenders. Context: Skin heads wear braces. Social Source: Anti-racist Skinheads. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Braces are devices fitted to the teeth to straighten them. Braces are also an alternative name for the "{" and "}" symbols. See Bracket.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Braces."
Synonym: BracesSynonym: brace (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")"; opening bracket, ""; left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, ""; right arrow, ""; forward slash, "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, ""; hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign, "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma, ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | There are 400 people in this room who are nothing like you. some of them are fat, some of them are skinny, some of them has braces, some of them have birth marks, or scars or frizzy hair (Angus; writing credit: Jill Gordon) I noticed you have braces. I have braces too (Beavis and Butt-head Do America; writing credit: Mike Judge;) Donnie, You got struck by lightning last summer you were on vacation in Tahoe, I don't think braces is a good idea (Magnolia; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson) I need braces! (Magnolia; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Splints and braces for the leg]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Leg braces and corrective shoes]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Little girl with braces on her legs is getting into a car]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Ambulances- Horsedrawn : Battalion equipment on bed and cross braces in position to support side seats. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | William Stamper, age eighty two, shaving oak sticks for chair braces in his workshop. Lake of the Ozarks passover area, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | View of the camp building at Kitty Hawk from the northwest, showing the old building to the left and the newly constructed building on the right, with a window on its east side and outside wall braces visible on its west side. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Braces" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Braces." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It had neither hinges, braces, lock, nor crack in the middle |
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Health | For scoliosis, bone surgery may be combined with back braces. (references) | |
Many individuals with SB will need assistive devices such as braces, crutches, or wheelchairs. (references) | ||
Special devices, such as splints or braces, used to treat problems of the muscles, ligaments, or bones of the skeletal system. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Braces" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.65% of the time. "Braces" is used about 139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 90.65% | 126 | 28,512 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 7.91% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.44% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 139 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "braces": a pair of braces ♦ pair of braces. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "braces": belt-and-braces, body-braces, red-braces. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
braces | 2,968 | braces colors | 30 |
dental braces | 213 | invisiline braces | 27 |
braces orthodontic | 200 | wrist braces | 27 |
braces tooth | 172 | braces headgear | 26 |
braces clear | 152 | braces metal | 25 |
invisible braces | 149 | braces retainer | 25 |
ankle braces | 126 | braces orthodontics | 24 |
girl with braces | 119 | orthopedic braces | 21 |
cost of braces | 82 | type of braces | 21 |
adult braces | 73 | braces price | 21 |
picture of braces | 66 | braces fetish | 20 |
teen with braces | 58 | gold braces | 20 |
invisalign braces | 51 | braces porn | 20 |
braces his | 44 | blow braces job | 20 |
invisaline braces | 38 | braces new | 19 |
ceramic braces | 36 | neck braces | 17 |
braces cum | 33 | braces having | 17 |
braces off | 32 | braces suspender wearing woman | 15 |
braces face | 32 | after before braces | 15 |
lingual braces | 31 | foot braces | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "braces"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | حمالات بنطلون (pair of braces). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тиранти (galluses, pair of braces, suspenders). (various references) | |
Chinese | 背帶 (sling, straps, suspenders), 梏 (fetters, manacles), 括号 (brace, parentheses, Parenthesis). (various references) | |
Danish | seler (suspenders). (various references) | |
Dutch | bretels (suspenders). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝelkoj (suspenders). (various references) | |
Finnish | olkaimet (suspenders), housunkannattimet (suspenders). (various references) | |
French | bretelles (pair of braces). (various references) | |
German | hosenträger (suspender, suspenders), Klammern (brace, brackets, clamp, clasp, clinch, cling, clip, cotter, peg, staple, to clamp, to clasp, to cotter). (various references) | |
Greek | τιράντες. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כתפות (pair of braces, suspenders). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nadrágtartó (gallowses, galluses, pair of braces, suspenders), fogszabályzó. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tanda kurung (bracket, parentheses), menyegarkan, menengangkan otot. (various references) | |
Italian | bretelle (brace). (various references) | |
Korean | 버팀대 (brace, Prop, Props). (various references) | |
Manx | gallasyn (suspender), brashyn (brace). (various references) | |
Norwegian | bukseseler (suspenders). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acesbray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suspensórios (suspender, suspenders). (various references) | |
Romanian | bretele (brace, suspenders). (various references) | |
Russian | подтяжки (gallows, galluses, pair of braces, suspenders). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proteza (dentures, prosthesis), čivije za zatezanje membrane. (various references) | |
Spanish | tirantes (pair of suspenders, suspenders). (various references) | |
Swedish | hängslen (galluses, suspenders). (various references) | |
Turkish | pantolon askısı (a pair of braces, brace, galluses, suspenders). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "braces": embraces, subraces, thoroughbraces, unbraces, vambraces. (additional references) | |
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"Braces" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abracos, Bacus, Baracs, Baracus, Barcos, Barcus, barices, Barkess, boracic, bracati, braccio, bracea, bracet, bracksy, brades, braec, braices, brakest, brances, brayes, brece, Brecsu, Bresis, brics, Broakes, bruces. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "braces" (pronounced brā"suz) |
| 6 | b r ā" s u z | embraces. |
| 5 | -r ā" s u z | erases, graces, races, traces. |
| 4 | -ā" s u z | aces, atlases, bases, cases, chases, displaces, faces, laces, paces, places, replaces, spaces, vases. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, accomplices, acquaintances, actresses, addresses, advances, affixes, albatrosses, aliases, allegiances, alliances, allowances, amaryllises, ambulances, annexes, announces, annoyances, apparatuses, appearances, appendixes, appliances, apprentices, asses, assesses, assurances, audiences, auspices, axes, congresses, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, balances, basses, biases, Biosciences, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bonuses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, boxes, briefcases, buses, businesses, Busses, buttresses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, Casas, caucuses, cayuses, ceases, censuses, chances, choices, choruses, circumstances, circuses, classes, clearances, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, complexes, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confesses, confidences, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crevices, crocuses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, depresses, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, discusses, dismisses, dispenses, distances, distresses, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embarrasses, eminences, encompasses, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, esses, evidences, excesses, excuses, exes, expanses, expenses, experiences, expresses, eyeglasses, eyewitnesses, farmhouses, faxes, fences, fetuses, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, flounces, focuses, forces, fortresses, foxes, fragrances, furnaces, fusses, gases, gasses, gearboxes, geniuses, glances, glasses, glimpses, glosses, goddesses, grasses, greenhouses, grievances, grimaces, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, harnesses, headdresses, hindrances, hippopotamuses, hisses, hoaxes, horses, hospices, hostesses, houses, hyraxes, ices, illnesses, imbalances, impresses, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, indexes, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, injustices, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, irises, issuances, juices, jukeboxes, justices, kisses, lapses, latexes, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, likenesses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, mattresses, medusas, messes, minibuses, minuses, misses, missus, mistresses, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, necklaces, nieces, nixes, notices, novices, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, offices, omnibuses, ordinances, orifices, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, palaces, paradoxes, passes, penises, performances, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, pluses, polices, porpoises, possesses, poultices, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, prejudices, premises, presences, presses, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, prominences, promises, pronounces, prospectuses, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purchases, purposes, purses, pusses, racehorses, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, reflexes, refocuses, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, reproduces, repurchases, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, retroviruses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, seamstresses, senses, sentences, sequences, services, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sinuses, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stewardesses, stresses, substances, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surfaces, surpasses, surpluses, surtaxes, taxes, terraces, tolerances, tortoises, tosses, townhouses, treatises, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, verses, versus, vices, viruses, voices, waitresses, walruses, waltzes, waxes, weaknesses, witnesses, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cabers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-r-s" | |
-1 letter: acerb, acres, bares, baser, bears, brace, braes, caber, carbs, cares, carse, crabs, escar, races, saber, sabre, scare, serac. | |
-2 letters: aces, acre, arbs, arcs, ares, arse, bare, bars, base, bear, brae, bras, cabs, carb, care, cars, case, crab, ears, eras, race, rase, rebs, recs, sabe, scab, scar, sear, sera. | |
-3 letters: abs, ace, arb, arc. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-r-s" | |
+1 letter: ascribe, backers, boraces, bracers, braches, cambers, caribes, crambes, rubaces, subrace. | |
+2 letters: abreacts, acerbest, aerobics, arbuscle, ascribed, ascribes, backrest, batchers, bearcats, becharms, becrawls, berascal, braceros, brachets, brackens, brackets, branches, breaches, breccias, brechams, brechans, brisance, broaches, brocades, cabarets, cabestro, cabresta, cabresto, calibers, calibres, carbides, carbines, chambers, clabbers, clambers, crabbers, crabwise, cramboes, cudbears, embraces, scabbier, scrabble, scramble, subraces, unbraces. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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