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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bracing
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a bracing musical experiment
▪ a bracing ocean breeze
▪ Hank loved the feel of the bracing sea air against his face.
▪ the bracing taste of ginger
▪ Tourists are attracted by the beautiful scenery and bracing mountain climate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As it happened, we never met more than a bracing Force 5.
▪ But, carping apart, Rattle's performance of the Brahms remains one of the most bracing and intelligent anywhere.
▪ He found in Byers a bracing scepticism like his own.
▪ It is this bracing action which allows the legs to work during the forward swing.
▪ She found Jen's contempt for politicians both bracing and worrying.
▪ The kettle was boiling, and he could smell the bracing aroma of frying eggs and bacon.
▪ Try a bracing dash up to the pool, followed by a plunge into the deep end.
▪ When I was young, all we heard about ozone was that it was bracing sea air.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bracing

Bracing \Bra"cing\, a. Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.

Bracing

Brace \Brace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Braced; p. pr. & vb. n. Bracing.]

  1. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.

  2. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.

    And welcome war to brace her drums.
    --Campbell.

  3. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

    The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet.
    --Locke.

    Some who spurs had first braced on.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  4. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.

    A sturdy lance in his right hand he braced.
    --Fairfax.

  5. (Naut.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.

    To brace about (Naut.), to turn (a yard) round for the contrary tack.

    To brace a yard (Naut.), to move it horizontally by means of a brace.

    To brace in (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by hauling in the weather brace.

    To brace one's self, to call up one's energies. ``He braced himself for an effort which he was little able to make.''
    --J. D. Forbes.

    To brace to (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by checking or easing off the lee brace, and hauling in the weather one, to assist in tacking.

    To brace up (Naut.), to bring (a yard) nearer the direction of the keel by hauling in the lee brace.

    To brace up sharp (Naut.), to turn (a yard) as far forward as the rigging will permit.

Bracing

Bracing \Bra"cing\, n.

  1. The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.

  2. (Engin.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.

Wiktionary
bracing
  1. invigorating or stimulating. n. 1 a brace 2 (context US English) a form of the military attention stance v

  2. (present participle of brace English)

WordNet
bracing
  1. adj. imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air" [syn: brisk, energizing, energising, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic]

  2. n. a structural member used to stiffen a framework [syn: brace]

Wikipedia
Bracing

Bracing may refer to:

  • Guitar bracing, internal reinforcements of a classical or acoustic guitar
  • Aircraft bracing, struts and wires which stiffen and strengthen the airframe.
  • Bracing style, a type of indent style used in computer programming
Bracing (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, bracing comprises additional structural members which stiffen the functional airframe to give it rigidity and strength under load. Bracing may be applied both internally and externally, and may take the form of struts, which act in compression or tension as the need arises, and/or wires, which act only in tension.

In general, bracing allows a stronger, lighter structure than one which is unbraced, but external bracing in particular adds drag which slows down the aircraft and raises considerably more design issues than internal bracing. Another disadvantage of bracing wires is that they require routine checking and adjustment, or rigging, even when located internally.

During the early years of aviation, bracing was a universal feature of all forms of aeroplane, including the monoplanes and biplanes which were then equally common. Today, bracing in the form of lift struts is still used for some light commercial designs where a high wing and light weight are more important than ultimate performance.

Usage examples of "bracing".

Besides the rustling of the gas cells there was the creaking of the aluminium framework along which he walked and the musical cries of thousands of steel bracing wires.

But Bibi had nodded strong agreement with Taverik, and Marita went by that, bracing herself as she followed Taverik into the alley.

Then, moving stiffly, Calandra rolled over and got to her feet, her sense that of someone bracing for unwanted but necessary activity.

I imagine Hilda did her best to sound bracing, whilst putting the daffs firmly in their place.

He staggered dizzily against the side of the trench, dropped the pick, and swayed heavily, bracing himself against collapse.

Lusty shouts rang out as men indulged in a game of toss-the-ball in the more bracing frigidarium adjoining.

Tolerant of tobacco, although he did not smoke, he fronted the fire, envying Gower Woodseer the contemplative pipe, which for half a dozen puffs wafted him to bracing deserts, or primaeval forests, or old highways with the swallow thoughts above him, down the Past, into the Future.

The closing together and bracing of which hemicycle or arch, worthie of admiration, of a rare and subtile deuise, and exquisite polyture, did thus obiect and present it selfe to my sight.

Suppressing her groan, she sat up on the couch, bracing her elbows on her knees as she raked her fingers through her hair.

I thought, bracing my feet against the tire, leaning into the angle of the wrench like a sculler leaning into an oar.

Enveloped in a moral atmosphere at once bracing and tender from her childhood upwards, it had never occurred to her to regret that she was not only orphaned, but sisterless and brotherless as well, in the ordinary acceptation of the phrase.

At the thought Darby, bracing himself, body and sowl, let a warning howl out of him.

At the thought Darby, bracing himself body and sowl, let a warning howl out of him.

Michael Pemulis and Jim Troeltsch and Hal Incandenza are splayed on reticulate-mesh patio chairs in street clothes and with their street-sneakers up on reticulate-mesh footstools, Struck and Axford with suspiciously bracing Gatorades and what looks like a hand-rolled psychochemical cigarette of some sort being passed between them.

And then from beneath his cloak he reached with his thumbless bandage of a hand and scooped up the instrument and the bow, to his chest, quickly bracing it with the other maimed hand.