Crossword clues for branding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brand \Brand\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Branded; p. pr. & vb. n. Branding.].
To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).
To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.
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Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.
The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy.
--Prescott.There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity.
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To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.
As if it were branded on my mind.
--Geo. Eliot.
Wiktionary
n. process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person or animal vb. (present participle of brand English)
WordNet
n. the act of stigmatizing [syn: stigmatization, stigmatisation]
Wikipedia
Branding may refer to:
- Making a mark by charring
- Wood branding, permanently marking, by way of heat, wood (also: plastic, cork, leather, etc.)
- Livestock branding, the marking of animals to indicate ownership
- Human branding, as body modification or punishment
- Freeze branding, permanently marking, by way of cold
- Branding (BDSM), bonding of the partners and marking of a submissive
- Vehicle title branding, a permanent designation indicating that a vehicle has been "written off"
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Brand, a name, logo, slogan, and/or design scheme associated with a product or service
- Branding (Promotional), the act of imprinting or engraving a brand name or symbol onto a product
- Brand management, the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand
- Employer branding, the application of brand management to recruitment marketing and internal brand engagement
- Internet branding, brand management on the Internet
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Nation branding, the application of marketing techniques for the advancement of a country
- Place branding, the application of marketing techniques for the advancement of country subdivisions
- Personal branding, people and their careers marketed as brands
- Co-branding, two companies/brands partner with each other to develop a product or an initiative, and sign such product or initiative with both brand names as the source.
- Branding agency, a type of marketing agency which specializes in creating brands
- Faith branding, the application of marketing techniques to religious institutions or individuals
Usage examples of "branding".
Her creamy mounds were squished against the table, but soon they would be branding his chest.
A moment later it stopped and his hot fingers curled around her ankles, branding her.
The month of September was usually the beginning of the branding season at Las Palomas.
In conducting this work, Uncle Lance was the leader, and with the white element already enumerated, there were twelve to fifteen vaqueros included in the branding outfit.
Just wait until the branding was over and the fiestas of the Christmas season were on, and watch him dog her every step until he received her signal of surrender.
Dan Happersett was dispatched with the second bunch for branding, when we swung north to Mr.
As a five-year-old, and naked as the day he was born, had he not ridden a colt at branding time, twice around the big corral without being thrown?
Only the year before at branding, when an infuriated bull had driven every vaquero out of the corrals, did not Enrique mount his horse, and, after baiting the bull out into the open, play with him like a kitten with a mouse?
When the branding proper was concluded, our tally showed nearly fifty-one hundred calves branded that season, indicating about twenty thousand cattle in the Las Palomas brand.
The cattle finished, we turned our attention to the branding of the horse stock.
When a similar question was asked me, I reluctantly admitted that the Las Palomas crop was quite a disappointment this year, only branding sixty-five hundred calves, but that our mule and horse colts ran nearly a thousand head without equals in the Nueces valley.
We had a branding chute on the ranch for grown cattle, and the following morning the herd was corralled and the road-branding commenced.
The day our branding was finished, the two returned near midnight, reported the San Miguel cattle accepted and due the next evening at Las Palomas.
There were some five or six owners, and Scales must catch the brands as they were freed from the branding chute.
Before the branding of this hunch was finished, Wilson, from Ramirena, rode into the ranch and announced his cattle within five miles of Las Palomas.