Brand vs Strain - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) Treasure.
(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
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Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
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A tendency or disposition.
(literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
(biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
(music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
(rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
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(obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
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To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
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* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
* Jonathan Swift
To tighten (the strings of a musical instrument); to uplift (one’s voice).
To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
To percolate; to be filtered.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
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To urge with importunity; to press.
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The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
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, title= A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
(label) The track of a deer.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
Brand is a related term of strain.
As an adjective brand
is burnt, branded.As a noun strain is
(obsolete) treasure or strain can be the act of straining, or the state of being strained.As a verb strain is
(obsolete) to hold tightly, to clasp.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 .
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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?
strain
English
(wikipedia strain)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- He is of a noble strain .
- With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain , gives vigour and fertility to the offspring.
- There is a strain of madness in her family.
- Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
- They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain .
- the common strain
Quotations
* (English Citations of "strain")Etymology 2
From (etyl) estreindre (whence French .Verb
(en verb)- So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd , and colled tenderly [...].
- Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
- to strain''' a rope; to '''strain the shrouds of a ship
- Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
- The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
- Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
- To build his fortune I will strain a little.
- He sweats, / Strains his young nerves.
- They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
- Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
- to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
- There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
- water straining through a sandy soil
- He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forced and strained .
- The quality of mercy is not strained .
- to strain a petition or invitation
- Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
Noun
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Liverpool 3-0 Man City, passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.}}
- When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine , and oftentimes so take them.