brace
brace is a 5-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- noun. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
- noun. The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- noun. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- noun. A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.
- noun. A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- noun. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- noun. A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
- noun. Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- noun. Harness; warlike preparation.
- noun. Armor for the arm; vantbrace.
- noun. The mouth of a shaft.
- transitive verb. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
- transitive verb. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
- transitive verb. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- transitive verb. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
- transitive verb. To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
- intransitive verb. To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
- noun. a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- noun. a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- noun. an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- noun. a support that steadies or strengthens something else
"he wore a brace on his knee"
- noun. elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)
- noun. a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- noun. either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material
- noun. a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- noun. two items of the same kind
- verb. cause to be alert and energetic
"Coffee and tea stimulate me"
"This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
- verb. support by bracing
- verb. support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
"brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel"
- verb. prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult
Synonyms
bracing, bitstock, braces, gallus, suspender, pair, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, span, twain, twosome, yoke, arouse, energise, energize, stimulate, stabilise, stabilize, steady
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in brace:
Common word forms
braced, bracer, braces, bracing
Words from these letters
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