bra dとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Late 中期英語 brad, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr (“spike, shaft”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare 古期英語 brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath (“sting, prick”), Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis (“bridle”), Czech brzda (“brake”). Doublet of prod.

名詞

brad (plural brads)

1. 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, published 2007, page 5:

     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.

2. (US, elementary school usage) A paper fastener, 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.

派生語

• bradawl
• brads

動詞

brad (third-person singular simple present brads, present participle bradding, simple past and past participle bradded)

1. (transitive) To attach using a brad.
2. (transitive) To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.

語源 2

名詞

brad (plural brads)

1. A binary radian.

アナグラム

• Bard, darb, bard, drab, BARD

語源 1

From Proto-West Germanic *braid.

形容詞

brād (comparative brādre, superlative brādost)

1. wide, broad
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     [Wiht] is þrittiġes mīla lang ēast ⁊ west, ⁊ twelf mīla brād sūð ⁊ norð.

     [Wight] is thirty miles long east-to-west and twelve miles wide north-to-south.

語形変化

同意語

• wīd

派生語

• brādnes
• brǣdu

派生した語

• Middle English: brod, brode, brood
  • English: broad
  • Scots: braid
  • Yola: brode

語源 2

名詞

brād m

1. alternative form of brǣd

語形変化

Strong a-stem: