Meaning

(obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
3. (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
4. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
5. (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
6. (obsolete, countable) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
7. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
8. A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together.

Example Sentences

Braid your locks with rosy twine.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• braids
• braiding
• braided
• brayde
• breyde
• broid
• more braid
• most braid
• brade
• brad
• bread
• bred
• breid
• breyd

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Use braid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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