the broken outer coat, or husk, of grains of wheat, rye, oats, etc. separated from the flour after grinding, as by sifting
Origin of bran
Middle English bran, bren from Old French brenbran
Bran
Celt. Myth. a giant and king of ancient Britain
Origin of Bran
from uncertain or unknown; perhaps Irish bran, ravenWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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bran
noun
The outer layers of the grain of cereals such as wheat, removed during the process of milling and used as a source of dietary fiber.
Origin of bran
Middle English from Old French of Celtic originRelated Forms:
- bran′ny
adjective
Bran
noun
MythologyA gigantic Celtic hero and ruler of Britain. After he was mortally wounded in battle, his head was buried in London, where it served as a protection against invaders.
Origin of Bran
Welsh Brân from brân ravenTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural brans)
Origin
See also: brânFrom Anglo-Norman bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (compare Welsh braen ‘stench’, Irish bréan ‘rancid’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁g- (compare Latin fragrāre ‘to smell strongly’, Dutch brak ‘hound’).
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bran - Computer Definition
A project chartered by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for the development of standards for wireless access to wireline networks at broadband speeds of 25 Mbps or more. BRAN includes HiperLAN2, a mobile short-range access network, and two fixed wireless broadband access technologies. HiperACCESS is intended to operate above 11 GHz and HiperMAN below 11 GHz. See also broadband, ETSI, HiperACCESS, HiperLAN2, HiperMAN, wireless, and WiMAX.
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Sentence Examples
- The bran is used for cattle-food and poultices, and the grain in the distillery.
- Throughout other parts bullocks are fed on pasture land, and also in stables on nourishing and succulent feed such as hay, Indian corn fodder, Indian corn silage, turnips, carrots, mangels, ground oats, barley, peas, Indian corn, rye, bran and linseed oil cake.
- Used to fasten his favourite dog Bran to it.
- This included Luther's old enemy, Duke George of Saxony, the electors of Bran- denburg and Mainz, and two princes of Brunswick.
- It flourishes best in small tanks and ponds, in which the water is constantly changing and does not freeze; in such localities, and with a full supply of food, which consists of weeds, crumbs of bread, bran, worms, small crustaceans and insects, it attains to a length of from 6 to 12 in., breeding readily, sometimes at different times of the same year.
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