Bred vs Brad - What's the difference?
bred | brad |
(breed)
A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 5:
A , a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
As a verb bred
is past tense of breed.As a noun brad is
a thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.As a proper noun Brad is
a diminutive of the male given names Bradley, Bradly, or Bradford.bred
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* nonbred * unbred English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms ----brad
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Noun
(en noun)- Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.