braid🔊

To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.

To start into motion.

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

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

(obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.

A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. (17th c.)

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

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

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

(obsolete) A caprice or outburst of passion or anger.

(topology) 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.

(dialectal) A wicker guard for protecting newly grafted trees.

(obsolete) A moment, stound.

(obsolete) A turn of work, job.

(obsolete) A trick; deception.

(obsolete) Crafty, deceitful.

(Ireland) A shelf or board for holding objects.

(Ireland) A board to press curd for cheese.

(Ireland) A flat board attached to a beam, used for weighing.