Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 31 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- 2noun
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
- 3noun
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- 7noun
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- 8noun
A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
- 9noun
Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- 10noun
Harness; warlike preparation.
- 11noun
Armor for the arm; vantbrace.
- 12noun
The mouth of a shaft.
- 13transitive verb
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
- 14transitive verb
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
- 15transitive verb
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- 16transitive verb
To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
- 17transitive verb
To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
- 18intransitive verb
To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
- 19noun
a structural member used to stiffen a framework
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- 20noun
a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
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- 21noun
an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
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- 22noun
a support that steadies or strengthens something else
"he wore a brace on his knee"
- 23noun
elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)
- 24noun
a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- 25noun
either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material
- 26noun
a set of two similar things considered as a unit
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- 27noun
two items of the same kind
- 28verb
cause to be alert and energetic
"Coffee and tea stimulate me"
"This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"
- 29verb
support by bracing
- 30verb
support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
"brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel"
- 31verb
prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult
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