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A trademark or distinctive name identifying a product or a manufacturer.
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A product line so identified: a popular brand of soap.
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A distinctive category; a particular kind: a brand of comedy that I do not care for.
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A mark indicating identity or ownership, burned on the hide of an animal with a hot iron.
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A mark burned into the flesh of criminals.
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American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.