braid
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: braids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: braiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: braided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: braided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: brayde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: breyde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: broid
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: braids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brayde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: breyde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: broid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To start into motion.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Braid your locks with rosy twine.
gloss: To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
pos: verb
gloss: To reproach; to upbraid.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Great King, / Few loue to heare the ſinnes they loue to act, / T'would brayde your ſelfe too neare for me to tell it […]
gloss: A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A caprice or outburst of passion or anger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Let the maide learne none uncleanly words, or wanton, or uncomely gesture and moving of the body, no not so much as when she is yet ignorant what shee doth, and innocent; for shee shall doe the same, when shee is growne bigger and of more discretion, […] And oftentimes such braides come uppon them against their will.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A wicker guard for protecting newly grafted trees.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: A moment, stound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A turn of work, job.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A trick; deception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: bridle
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: gërshet
lang: Arabic
word: جَدِيلَة
roman: jadīla
lang: Arabic
word: ضَفِيرَة
roman: ḍafīra
lang: Arabic
word: ضفيرة
roman: ḍifīra
lang: Arabic
word: ضَفيرة
roman: ḍafīra
lang: Arabic
word: جدوله
roman: jaddūli
lang: Armenian
word: հյուս
roman: hyus
lang: Armenian
word: ծամ
roman: cam
lang: Azerbaijani
word: hörük
lang: Bashkir
word: толом
roman: tolom
lang: Belarusian
word: каса́
roman: kasá
lang: Bulgarian
word: пли́тка
roman: plítka
lang: Catalan
word: trena
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 辮子 /辫子
roman: biànzi
lang: Czech
word: cop
lang: Czech
word: pletenec
lang: Danish
word: fletning
lang: Dutch
word: vlecht
lang: Estonian
word: pats
lang: Finnish
word: letti
lang: French
word: natte
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word: tresse
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word: crencha
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word: trinca
lang: Galician
word: arello
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word: cadrelo
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word: carapicho
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word: ნაწნავი
roman: nac̣navi
lang: German
word: Zopf
lang: German
word: Flechte
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐌻𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌰
roman: flahta
lang: Greek
word: πλεξίδα
roman: plexída
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πλέγμα
roman: plégma
lang: Hebrew
word: צַמָּה
lang: Hindi
word: चुटिया
roman: cuṭiyā
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roman: kʼež
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word: 三つ編み
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word: 땋은 머리
roman: tta'eun meori
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word: کەزی
roman: kezî
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word: kezî
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word: bize
lang: Lithuanian
word: kasa
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word: плетенка
roman: pletenka
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word: trena
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word: تافته
roman: tāfte
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word: коса́
roman: kosá
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word: коси́чка
roman: kosíčka
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word: वेणी
roman: veṇī
lang: Sanskrit
word: वेणि
roman: veṇi
lang: Sanskrit
word: वेणिका
roman: veṇikā
lang: Sanskrit
word: रज्जु
roman: rajju
lang: Sanskrit
word: केशगर्भक
roman: keśagarbhaka
lang: Sanskrit
word: पर्परी
roman: parparī
lang: Sanskrit
word: कूटक
roman: kūṭaka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dual
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: плетеница
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pletenica
lang: Slovak
word: pletenec
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word: kita
lang: Southern Altai
word: тулуҥ
roman: tuluŋ
lang: Spanish
word: trenza
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roman: kokul
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word: జడ
roman: jaḍa
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word: เปีย
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word: йырси пунэт
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word: коса́
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word: bím tóc