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English

Noun

plats

1. plural of plat

Verb

plats

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plat

Anagrams

• -plast, slapt, spalt, splat

Catalan

Noun

plats

1. plural of plat

Estonian

Noun

plats (genitive platsi, partitive platsi)

1. square (of a city)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

French

Adjective

plats

1. masculine plural of plat

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *platus, from *pl?th?us < *pleth?- (“flat”). In Latvian, former u-stem adjectives were assimilated into other classes; *platus gave rise to both an o-stem and a yo-stem variant which later on became independent words, plats and plašs, with different semantic nuances (compare also dobs and dobjš, or ass and ašs); this separation began in the 18th century but became complete only in the 1870s. Cognates include Lithuanian platùs, Old Prussian plat- (from a placename, Platmedyen, where median = “forest”), Sanskrit ???? (p?thu, “broad, wide, great, powerful”), Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, wide, flat, smooth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plats]

Adjective

plats (definite platais, comparative plat?ks, superlative visplat?kais, adverb plati)

1. wide, broad (having a relatively large distance from side to side)

2. wide, broad (going beyond the average width of other similar objects)

3. (phonetics) broad, lax (pronounced with relatively large mouth opening)

4. wide, broad (having large aperture)

5. wide, broad (having large diameter)

Usage notes

In general, plats is used to mean “wide, broad” in a more literal sense, while plašs has more metaphorical senses.

Declension

Synonyms

• plašs

Antonyms

• šaurs

Derived terms

• plat?ba
• platums

References

Old French

Noun

plats m

1. inflection of plat:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish platz, from Old Norse plaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

plats c

1. place; any geographical position a little larger than just a point, such as a village, city or just a "nowhere"
2. a seat; such as in a bus or in a theater

3. (uncountable) room; space

4. a position; such as allowing you to play in a (competing) sports team, or take a university course

Declension

See also

• platsa
• på plats
• ta en plats
• sätta någon på plats

Anagrams

• plast, spalt

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English braiden, breiden, bræiden, from Old English bre?dan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdan? (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r??-, *b?r??- (“to shine, shimmer”).

Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).

Alternative forms

• brayde, breyde, broid (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?e?d/
• Homophone: brayed
• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

braid (third-person singular simple present braids, present participle braiding, simple past and past participle braided)

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.

Derived terms

• umbraid
• upbraid

Translations

Noun

braid (plural braids)

1. (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. [11^th-17^thc.]
2. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16^thc.]
3. A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
4. A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
5. A fancy; freak; caprice.

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Translations

Further reading

• braid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• braid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Braids on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Adjective

braid (comparative more braid, superlative most braid)

1. (obsolete) Deceitful.

Anagrams

• Baird, bidar, rabid

Gothic

Romanization

braid

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Irish

Noun

braid f

1. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of brad

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

braid

1. Alternative form of breid