brand, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

brand (brands plural & 3rd person present) (branding present participle) (branded past tense & past participle )

1 n-count A brand of a product is the version of it that is made by one particular manufacturer.
oft N of n, adj N (=make)
Winston is a brand of cigarette..., I bought one of the leading brands., ...a supermarket's own brand.

2 n-count A brand of something such as a way of thinking or behaving is a particular kind of it.
N of n (=strain)
The British brand of socialism was more interested in reform than revolution.

3  verb If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing. (=label)
I was instantly branded as a rebel...  be V-ed as n
The company has been branded racist by some of its own staff...  be V-ed adj
The US administration recently branded him a war criminal.  V n n, Also V n as n, V n adj

4  verb When you brand an animal, you put a permanent mark on its skin in order to show who it belongs to, usually by burning a mark onto its skin.
The owner couldn't be bothered to brand the cattle.  V n
  Brand is also a noun., n-count
A brand was a mark of ownership burned into the hide of an animal with a hot iron.

5 n-count A brand is a permanent mark on the skin of an animal, which shows who it belongs to.