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Brasier

Definition: Brasier

Brasier

Noun

1. Large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "brasier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)


Synonym: Brasier

Synonym: brazier (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Brasier

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

Furnace

Noun: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Brasier

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Brasier ardent (1923)

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

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Commercial Usage: Brasier

DomainTitle

Books

  • Brasier de neige : poáemes 1974-1988 (reference)

  • Le brasier (reference)

  • Le brasier de Montsâegur : un âepisode de la croisade contre les cathares (reference)

  • Le Brasier des ancãetres : poáemes populaires de la Bretagne [textes bretons âetablis] par Jean-Pierre Foucher et [traduits par] Loeiz Ar Floch (reference)

  • Pour un brasier dans un dâesert : râesistance, messages, mains, destins (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Brasier

Illustrations:
Brasier

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Photo Album: Brasier

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Annamite sur le brasier. / Michelet sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Usage Frequency: Brasier

"Brasier" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Brasier" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Brasier

The following table summarizes the usage of "brasier" 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
BrasierLast name30024,879
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Brasier

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

brasier

5

brasier senos

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

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Modern Translations: Brasier

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

Greek 

  

μαγκάλι (brazier), πυραυνόν (brazier), χαλκουργόσ (brazier, coppersmith). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

perbaraan (furnance). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asierbray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Brasier

Derivations

Words beginning with "brasier": brasiers. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Brasier

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-r-r-s"

-1 letter: airers, barres, braise, briars, briers, rabies, raiser, rebars, sierra.

-2 letters: abris, airer, arise, arris, barer, bares, barre, baser, bears, biers, birrs, birse, braes, briar, brier, bries, raise, rares, raser, rears, rebar, ribes, riser, saber, sabir, sabre, serai, sirra.

-3 letters: abri, airs, arbs, ares, arse, bare, bars, base, bear, bias, bier, birr, bise, brae.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: arbiters, barriers, bizarres, braiders, brashier, brasiers, brassier, braziers, rarebits, sparerib.

 

+2 letters: abridgers, ambergris, arborizes, barbwires, barrister, birrettas, brasserie, brassiere, braveries, bursaries, carburise, catbriers, disbarred, firebrats, libraries, rabbiters, reburials, spareribs, turbaries.

 

+3 letters: airbrushed, airbrushes, arbitrages, arbitrates, barbarizes, barberries, bargainers, barratries, barretries, barricades, barristers, bayberries, biomarkers, birthrates, brasseries, brassieres, breviaries, brigadiers, burglaries, cabdrivers, carabiners, carburised, carburises, carburizes, cedarbirds, crispbread, firebrands, firebreaks, forebrains, hagberries, harbingers, harborside, herbariums, karabiners, liberators, rabbitries, respirable, ribaldries, ribgrasses, riverbanks, riverboats, rubricates, scrabblier, submariner, sweetbriar, teaberries, transcribe, upbraiders, waterbirds, waxberries.

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: Brasier


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

42 72 61 73 69 65 72

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 01110010 01100001 01110011 01101001 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#97 &#115 &#105 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0061 0073 0069 0065 0072

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

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

36846785757184

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INDEX

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


  

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