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61 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• brace n. (Obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
• brace n. (Obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person’s outstretched arms.
• brace n. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
• brace n. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
• brace n. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
• brace n. A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
• brace n. The state of being braced or tight; tension.
• brace n. Harness; warlike preparation.
• brace n. (Typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words…
• brace n. A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies)…
• brace n. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the…
• brace n. (Nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally;…
• brace n. (Britain, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
• brace n. (Britain, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
• brace n. (Plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands…
• brace n. (Soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
• brace v. (Transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
• brace v. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
• brace v. (Nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient…
• brace v. To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
• brace v. To confront with questions, demands or requests.
• brace v. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
• brace v. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
• brace v. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
• Brace prop.n. A surname from Old French.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Middle english
  • brace n. Vambrace; armour which protects the arm.
  • brace n. A cord or brace for fastening or attaching things to something.
  • brace n. A group or set of two dogs or canines.
  • brace n. Wood used as a buttress or support for building.
  • brace n. (Rare) A support or buttress used in other applications.
  • brace n. (Rare) A kind of riding equipment or horse tack.
  • brace n. (Rare) A peninsula; a cape or slice of land jutting into the sea.
  • brace n. (Rare) A perch (unit of measure).
  • brace n. (Rare) A point of a cross or rood.
  • brace v. Alternative form of bracen.
  • brace n. Alternative form of bras.
• Old french
  • brace n. Arm (limb).
• Polabian
  • brącĕ v. (He/she/it) hums, buzzes.
• Romanian
  • brace n. (Rare, Bukovina) underwear, undergarments, drawers, unmentionables.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• brace w. Wederkerend ~ oneself zich schrap zetten.

— English words, defined in French —

• brace n. (Typographie) Accolade.
• brace n. (Technique) Entretoise.
• brace n. (Technique) Étrésillon.
• brace n. (Technique) Vilebrequin manuel.
• brace n. Couple. Note : En ce sens, le pluriel est brace et non pas braces.
• brace v. Retenir son souffle, se préparer au pire.
• brace v. (Construction) Renforcer, consolider.
• brace v. (Construction) (En particulier) Entretoiser, arc-bouter.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• brace s. Rodillera.
• brace s. Codera.
• brace s. Soporte, puntal.
• brace s. Llave (cada uno de los caracteres "{" y "}").
• brace v. Reforzar, apuntalar.
• brace v. Soportar.
• brace v. Enfrentar con preguntas o solicitudes.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• brace s. O caractere de pontuação chave ({ }) (comum o uso no plural: chaves).
• brace s. Aparelho usado para corrigir a posição dos dentes (via de regra no plural: braces).
• brace s. Braçadeira (peça de metal para manter algo fixado).
• brace v. Preparar-se.

— In French —

• brace n.f. (Antiquité) Casaque.

— In Italian —

• brace s. (Fisica) (chimica) residuo della bruciatura del legno, del…

218 English words from 39 English definitions

also also␣known␣as Alternative America and animals any anything applications arm Armor armour arms attaching bad bandage bands being bind bits bitstock block blow brace braced braces bracket brackets bras Britain building Bukovina buttress buzzes canines cape change chiefly closely confront conies connecting cord Cornwall couple cross curly curly␣bracket curved demands direction dogs draw drawers drum efficient elastic elastic␣bands end end␣of equipment etc fasten fastening firmly for form French from furnish game generally goals group handle Harness hold holding holds horizontally horse hums impact in␣a␣state instrument into intransitive iron jutting kind kind␣of known land later length ligament limb line maintaining material measure measurement mining more mouth moved Nautical North North␣America Obsolete of␣a Old Old␣French one originally other outstretched pair peninsula perch person piece place player plural point pointed police position preparation prepare present pressure producing prop protects put put␣in questioning questions Rare reeved regulate representing requests resisting riding rigged rod rood rope round said scored sea set shaft she ship singular slice Soccer someone something something␣bad square square␣rigged state state␣of␣being stop strain Straps strengthen such such␣as support supports surname suspenders sustain swing system tack tension That the things thong through tie tight tighten tightly Transitive transmit trousers turning two Typography undergarments underwear unit unit␣of␣measure unmentionables used used␣to using usually vambrace warlike weight which wires with wood words yard yards

26 English words from 22 foreign definitions

Accolade algo arc brace braces chave con Construction Couple del dentes dos est metal non Note oneself para pas plural sens solicitudes son souffle Technique via

59 foreign words from 22 foreign definitions

Antiquité Aparelho apuntalar arc-bouter bouter Braçadeira bruciatura cada caractere caracteres Casaque chaves chimica Codera comum consolider corrigir della En␣ce␣sens Enfrentar En␣particulier Entretoise Entretoiser Étrésillon Fisica fixado legno Llave los manter manuel particulier peça pire pluriel pontuação posição preguntas Preparar préparer puntal Reforzar regra Renforcer residuo Retenir Retenir␣son␣souffle Rodillera schrap Soportar Soporte Typographie uno usado uso Vilebrequin Wederkerend zetten zich

51 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

braced bracer braces Braces Bracey Braceby brace␣by brace␣in bracero Bracero bracers bracest braceth brace␣up Braceys braced␣up Braceful bracelet braceros Braceros braces␣up braceable brace␣abox braceface braceless bracelets Bracewell brace␣aback brace␣about bracefaces braceleted brace␣sharp Bracewells Bracebridge braced␣aback braced␣sharp braceleting braceletted braces␣aback braces␣sharp Bracebridges braceletting bracewellite brace␣of␣shakes braces␣of␣shakes Bracewell␣probe Bracewell␣probes bracelet␣cortinar bracelet␣cortinars bracelets␣of␣fortune Braceby␣and␣Sapperton

96 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

embraced embracer embraces imbraced imbraces rebraced rebraces subraces unbraced unbraces upbraced upbraces armbraces embraceor embracers embracery embracest embraceth imbracery imbracest imbraceth nonbraced vambraced vambraces vanbraces embraceors forebraces gardbraces mainbraces nebracetam neckbraces neck-braces neck␣braces overbraces reembraced re-embraced reembraces re-embraces rerebraces unembraced vantbraces angle␣braces curly␣braces embraceable embraceably embracement embraceries gel␣bracelet imbracement imbraceries +46 words

33 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

embrace imbrace rebrace subrace unbrace upbrace armbrace Kinbrace vambrace vanbrace forebrace gardbrace mainbrace neckbrace neck-brace neck␣brace overbrace reembrace reëmbrace re-embrace rerebrace vantbrace angle␣brace curly␣brace underbrace half-embrace overembrace counterbrace deadly␣embrace thoroughbrace marital␣embrace guard␣of␣vambrace splice␣the␣mainbrace

10 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ace Ace ACE bra BRAC RAC rac- race Race race-

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

arb ARB Arb. car Car CAR carb carb- ECA e-car

4 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

acerb caber cabre cabré

39 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

baccer Bacher backer bacter- Balcer Bearce becard becare Béchar Bescar braced bracer braces Braces Bracey breach BREACH cabber cabers cabler cabree cabrée cabres camber cambre Cambre cambré caribe cembra Crabbe craber Crable Craibe Cserba decarb decrab reback rubace Vrabec

40 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ABEC Aber acer acre Acre bace bare Bare Baré BCAR BCer bear Bear BRAC brae Brea Cabe caer carb carb- care Care -care cbar CBer Cera CERA CERB crab CRBA Crea e-car rabe race Race race- raeb RBAC Reba Reb␣A

28 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

arace BRACC brach brack Brack bract Bracy Brahe brake Brake brame Brame brane Brase brave Brave braze Brice Broce bruce Bruce BRUCE Bryce Crace grace Grace trace Trace

6 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

bace BRAC brae race Race race-

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