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BRANK

Definitions: BRANK

BRANK

Intransitive verb

1. To prance; to caper.

2. To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.

Noun

1. Alt. of Branks

2. Buckwheat.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"BRANK" is a common misspelling or typo for: bank, blank, bran, branch, brand, brink.


Specialty Definitions: BRANK

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Brank A gag for scolds. (Dutch, prang, a fetter; German, pranger, Gælic, brancas, a kind of pillory.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: BRANK

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Scourge

Pillory, stocks, whipping post; cucking stool, ducking stool; brank; trebuchet, trebuket.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: BRANK

DomainTitle

Books

  • Punishments in the Olden Time: Being an Historical Account of the Ducking Stool, Brank, Pillory, Stocks, Drunkard's Cloak, Whipping Post, Riding the (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: BRANK

Illustrations:
BRANK

More pictures...

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Photo Album: BRANK

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Robert Brank Vance, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Name Usage Frequency: BRANK

The following table summarizes the usage of "BRANK" 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
BrankLast name20030,701
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRANK

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

brank

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BRANK

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

Danish

  

almindelig bjørneklo (bear's breech, brank-ursine, common cow parsnip, hogweed, US hogweed cowparsnip). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bereklauw (acanthus, cow parsnip, hogweed). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ukonputki (bear's breech, brank-ursine, common cow parsnip, hogweed, US hogweed cowparsnip). (various references)

   

French

  

berce spondyle (bear's breech, brank-ursine), berce commune (bear's breech, brank-ursine), berce brancursing (bear's breech, brank-ursine), patte-d'ours (bear's breech, brank-ursine). (various references)

   

German

  

Wiesen-Baerenklau (bear's breech, brank-ursine, common cow parsnip, hogweed, US hogweed cowparsnip). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ηράκλειο το σφονδύλιο (bear's breech, brank-ursine, common cow parsnip, hogweed, US hogweed cowparsnip). (various references)

   

Italian

  

panace (bear's breech, brank-ursine, common cow parsnip, hogweed, US hogweed cowparsnip), erba orsina (bear's breech, brank-ursine, common cow parsnip, hogweed, US hogweed cowparsnip). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ankbray

   

Spanish

  

branca ursina falsa (bear's breech, brank-ursine, common cow parsnip, hogweed, US hogweed cowparsnip), belleraca (bear's breech, brank-ursine, common cow parsnip, hogweed, US hogweed cowparsnip). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vit björnloka (bear's breech, brank-ursine, common cow parsnip, hogweed, US hogweed cowparsnip). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: BRANK

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Heracleum sphondylium L.. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: BRANK

Derivations

Words beginning with "BRANK": branks. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "BRANK"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BRANK" (pronounced bra"ngk)
4-r a" ng kcrank, drank, franc, Frank, prank, rank, shrank.
3-a" ng kantitank, bank, blank, clank, dank, flank, Hank, interbank, lank, nonbank, plank, sank, shank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank.

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

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Anagrams: BRANK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-k-n-r"

-1 letter: bank, bark, barn, bran, karn, kbar, knar, nark, rank.

-2 letters: arb, ark, ban, bar, bra, kab, nab, ran.

-3 letters: ab, an, ar, ba, ka, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-k-n-r"
 

+1 letter: banker, branks.

 

+2 letters: bankers, barking, blanker, bracken, braking, bunraku, runback, tanbark, unbrake.

 

+3 letters: bankcard, bankerly, bankroll, bankrupt, barnlike, bearskin, bedarken, beraking, blinkard, brackens, brakeman, brakemen, breaking, bunrakus, ironbark, ninebark, ringbark, runbacks, tanbarks, unbraked, unbrakes.

 

+4 letters: bankcards, bankrolls, bankrupts, bearskins, bedarkens, benchmark, blackener, blinkards, brainsick, breakdown, breakeven, breakings, breakneck, canebrake, debarking, drinkable, embarking, frankable, greenback, imbarking, interbank, ironbarks, karabiner, newsbreak, ninebarks, prebaking, ringbarks, riverbank, snakebird, superbank, thornback, unbraking, windbreak.

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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Alternative Orthography: BRANK


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

42 52 41 4E 4B

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 01001110 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0041 004E 004B

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

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

3652354845

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INDEX

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


  

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Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
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