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braid

verb
/bɹeɪd/

Etymology

From Middle English braiden, breided, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”). Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).

  1. derived from *bʰrēḱ-✻
  2. derived from *bregdaną✻
  3. inherited from *bregdan✻
  4. inherited from breġdan
  5. inherited from braiden

Definitions

  1. To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.

  2. To start into motion.

  3. To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.)

    To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.

    • Braid your locks with rosy twine.
  4. ›+ 17 more definitions

    1. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.

    2. To reproach

      To reproach; to upbraid.

      • Great King, / Few loue to heare the ſinnes they loue to act, / T'would brayde your ſelfe too neare for me to tell it […]

    3. A sudden movement

      A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.

      • And than in a brayde Sir Launcelot brake hys chaynes of hys legges and of hys armys (and in the brakynge he hurte hys hondys sore)[…].
      • He fixt vpon my face, which to my death / Will neuer part fro me, when with a braide / A deepe fet sigh he gaue, and therewithall / Clasping his handes, to heauen he cast his sight.

    4. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.

      • The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

    5. A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together.

    6. A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for…

      A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.

    7. A caprice or outburst of passion or anger.

    8. Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a…

      Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.

      • We introduce braids via their historical roots and uses, make connections with knot theory and present the mathematical theory of braids through the braid group.
      • In order to characterise the structure and complexity of a braid different numbers or topological invariants can be calculated.

    9. A wicker guard for protecting newly grafted trees.

    10. A moment, stound.

    11. A turn of work, job.

    12. A trick

      A trick; deception.

    13. Crafty, deceitful.

      • Since Frenchmen are so braid, / Marry that will, I live and die a maid.

    14. A shelf or board for holding objects.

    15. A board to press curd for cheese.

    16. A flat board attached to a beam, used for weighing.

    17. A surname.

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Derived

abraid, braidable, braider, braille, embraid, French-braid, rebraid, umbraid, unbraid, upbraid, box braids, braid bar, braid group, braidlike, braid statistics, braidwork, Brunnian braid, dookie braid, dooky braid, Dutch braid, French braid, Madonna braid, microbraid, Russia braid, Russian braid

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at braid. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at braid. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at braid

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA