brad

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɹad/|/bɹæd/    美 /bɹæd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
    — Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.
  2. A binary radian.
  3. A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet. US
动词 v.
  1. To attach using a brad. transitive
  2. To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting. transitive

词形变化

brads plural brads present,singular,third-person bradding participle,present bradded participle,past bradded past brads plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bradawl brads

词源

Late Middle English brad, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr (“spike, shaft”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare Old English brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath (“sting, prick”), Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis (“bridle”), Czech brzda (“brake”). Doublet of prod.
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