Brand vs Slur - What's the difference?
brand | slur | Synonyms |
A piece of wood red-hot, or still burning, from the fire.
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(archaic) A sword.
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A mark of ownership made by burning, e.g. on cattle, or to classify the contents of a cask.
A branding iron.
A name, symbol, logo, or other item used to distinguish a product or service, or its provider.
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A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.
Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style, manner.
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The reputation among some population of an organization, of the products sold under a particular brand name, or of a person.
Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.
To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.
:When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.
To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
:The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.
To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
:Her face is branded upon my memory.
To stigmatize, label (someone).
:He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story.
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
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, title= (marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.
:They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box.
(advertising) Associated with a particular product, service, or company.
An insult or slight.
(music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
(music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
(obsolete) A trick or deception.
In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
To insult or slight.
To run together; to articulate poorly.
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, title= (label) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
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To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
Brand is a synonym of slur.
As an adjective brand
is burnt, branded.As a noun slur is
an insult or slight.As a verb slur is
to insult or slight.brand
English
(wikipedia brand)Noun
(en noun)- Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.
- Paradise, so late their happy seat, / Waved over by that flaming brand .
- (Tennyson)
Synonyms
* trademark, logo, brand name, marque, tradename, proprietary name * (reputation) repute, name, good nameDerived terms
* brand awareness * brand equity * brand image * brand linkage * brand name * brand parity * brand stretch * branding * branding moment * own brandSee also
* * * * * * * * Picture Sorts * trademark * servicemarkVerb
(en verb)Man Utd 1-6 Man City, passage=As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".}}
Adjective
(-)- That computer company has brand recognition.
- Have we settled on our brand name?
slur
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(slurr)- (Tennyson)
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
- (Busby)
- (Cudworth)
- With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
- to slur men of what they fought for
