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Definitions: Branded |
BrandedAdjective1. (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights; "branded merchandise is that bearing a standard brand name". 2. Marked with a brand; "branded cattle"; "branded criminal". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "branded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Antonym: unbranded (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Branded |
| English words defined with "branded": brand ♦ coarse, common ♦ misbranded, mislabeled ♦ plebeian, post ♦ roundup ♦ uncouth, unwashed ♦ vulgar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "branded": BARREL BRANDER ♦ CIGAR BRANDER ♦ HUMOR ♦ Punic Faith ♦ Stigmatise. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Most of us were rounded up put in camps for orderly disposal and branded by laser scanner. (The Terminator; writing credit: James Cameron; Gale Anne Hurd) Livestock gets branded. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) | |
Lyrics | Branded, my heart was branded while my senses stood by (Sara; performing artist: Starship) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Branded (1965) 5 Branded Women (1960) Branded (1950) Twice Branded (1936) Branded a Coward (1935) | |
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Freeze Branded horseWild Horse and Burro Adoption ProgramLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Sam Mattise. | ![]() | Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves. Credit: Library of Congress. | |
![]() | War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. Tires of a war housing trailer are removed as soon as this home for a war worker's family is delivered. The Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles uses these tires for further deliveries. The branded tires may be seen at. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Karl Marx | Labor in a white skin cannot be free as long as labor in a black skin is branded. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Each syllable has a branded look. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The driver munched the branded pie and threw the crust away. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Some purchase only branded gift items. (references) | |
The vehicles are branded as Toyota's Signature range. (references) | ||
They have been giving the branded players a run for their money, and their market share. (references) | ||
Children | India | On June 30, a Calcutta court fined a nun of the Missionaries of Charity $20 (1,000 Rs) for branding a 12-year-old girl with a hot knife in September 2000. The nun had branded the girl because she stole bread. (references) |
Civil Liberties | China | There were reports that 14 unofficial Christian groups and a Buddhist organization (known as Guanyin Famin) were branded by the Government as "evil cults," as well. (references) |
Korea | The Constitution also stipulates that religion "should not be used for purposes of dragging in foreign powers or endangering public security." Although in the past the Government has branded religiously active persons as "counterrevolutionaries" and killed or imprisoned them, in more recent times, it has allowed the formation of several government-sponsored religious organizations. (references) | |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | However, scopes for quality branded chocolates and snacks still exists. (references) |
Guatemala | There are also large importers of original branded products such as IBM, Compaq, Dell and Hewlett Packard. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | U.S. branded apparel, especially at stand-alone boutiques, present excellent opportunities for a niche market. (references) | |
Political Economy | ECUADOR | Recent legislation effectively discriminates against branded medicines, many of which are U.S. products. (references) |
ECUADOR | The "Law on Generic Drugs", passed in 2000, forbids Government entities from buying branded pharmaceutical products. (references) | |
NIGERIA | Duties on branded vegetable oil were increased from 35 percent to 60 percent and on hatchable eggs from 50 percent to 80 percent. (references) | |
Trade | Netherlands | Branded products may no longer be imported into the Benelux without the permission of the manufacturer. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | That disposition to theft with which they have been branded, must be ascribed to their situation, and not to any depravity of the moral sense. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Branded" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 43.77% of the time. "Branded" is used about 313 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 43.77% | 137 | 27,138 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 31.95% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.28% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Total | 100.00% | 313 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "branded": branded goods ♦ branded product. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "branded": branded-goods. | |
Ending with "branded": cadbury-branded, co-branded, compac-branded, freeze-branded, island-branded, own-branded, panda-branded, premium-branded, proprietary-branded, vw-branded. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "branded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 烙记 (Branding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | produits de marque (brand, branded goods), articles de marque (brand, branded goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gezeichnet (designed, drawn, lined, marked, plotted, signed, Spectacled, subscribed), gebrandmarkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σεσημασμένοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | marcato (broad, clean-cut, marked, prominent, sharp, signed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 상표을 붙이". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | daajit, cowrit (blotchy, marked, signed, stamped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andedbray клеймить фирменный. (various references) koji ima pečat, žigosan (stamped). (various references) märkesvara (branded product). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "branded": misbranded, unbranded. (additional references) | |
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"Branded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barnden, branda, Brandao, Brande, branden, Bransden, Brenidjet, brinded, Brindex, Brinsden, brundred. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "branded" (pronounced bra"ndud) |
| 7 | b r a" n d u d | unbranded. |
| 6 | -r a" n d u d | stranded. |
| 5 | -a" n d u d | banded, candid, commanded, demanded, disbanded, evenhanded, expanded, handed, landed, remanded, sanded, underhanded. |
| 4 | -n d u d | abounded, amended, appended, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, backhanded, befriended, bended, blended, blinded, bonded, bounded, commended, compounded, comprehended, confounded, contended, corresponded, defended, depended, descended, distended, dumbfounded, ended, expended, expounded, extended, fended, founded, funded, grounded, hounded, impounded, intended, masterminded, mended, minded, offended, overextended, overfunded, pounded, pretended, propounded, rebounded, recommended, refunded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, rounded, seconded, sounded, splendid, surrounded, suspended, tended, transcended, trended, unamended, unattended, unbounded, underfunded, unfounded, unfunded, unintended, winded, wounded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abided, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, applauded, avoided, awarded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, beheaded, bladed, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, braided, breaded, broadsided, brooded, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, conceded, concluded, confided, corded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defrauded, degraded, deluded, denuded, derided, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, eluded, embedded, encoded, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, exceeded, excluded, exploded, extruded, exuded, faded, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, guarded, guided, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, included, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, melded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, outmoded, overcrowded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, prided, proceeded, prodded, provided, raided, railroaded, receded, recorded, redheaded, regarded, reloaded, remolded, resided, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, spearheaded, speeded, stampeded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, threaded, traded, unaided, undecided, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, wooded, worded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-n-r" | |
-1 letter: badder, banded, bander, barded, dander, darned. | |
-2 letters: adder, ardeb, baned, barde, bared, beard, brand, bread, dared, debar, denar, dread, readd, redan. | |
-3 letters: abed, bade, band, bane, bard, bare, barn, bead, bean, bear, bend, brad, brae, bran, bred, bren, darb, dare, darn, dead, dean, dear, drab, earn, nabe, nard, near, nerd, rand, read, redd. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-n-r" | |
+1 letter: brandied. | |
+2 letters: bartended, broadened, unabraded, unbraided, unbranded. | |
+3 letters: bandleader, barehanded, bedarkened, bladdernut, borderland, brandished, misbranded, unabridged. | |
+4 letters: bandleaders, beardedness, birdbrained, bladdernuts, borderlands, carbonadoed, crossbanded, forbiddance, handbreadth. | |
+5 letters: backgrounded, biodegrading, decarbonated, decarbonized, defibrinated, forbiddances, handbreadths, handsbreadth, standardbred, subordinated, unbarricaded. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 61 6E 64 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. .- -. -.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r a n d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0061 006E 0064 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36846780707170 |
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Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French; Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; Grieks, Griek, الإغريقي, يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek; Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, شخص إيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, الإيطالي, إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian; korean, كوري شمالي, اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري, Coreanu, корейски, корейски език, Koryano, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejský, korejec, korejština, Koreaans, koreanskt, coréen, Koreaansk, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτησ, κορεάτικοσ, koreai, 한국, koreano, coréia, a língua coreana, coreean, limba coreeanã, кореец, корейский, Kolea, korejski jezik, korejski, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên, for korean; gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manský, manština, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, Manninish, Manninagh, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man dili, man adası, менський діалект, менський, for manx; Russies, Rus, الروسية, روسي, اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian; 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, for Serbo-Croatian; Sweeds, suedez, اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish; |