brad

name

Etymology: Clipping.

1. A diminutive of the male given names Bradley, Bradly, or Bradford, also used as a formal given name.

   “[…] Brad Schimel wants to make sure women don’t have the right to make their own health care decisions. If he wins, that right is gone,” Crawford says in the ad.”

   “As journalist Brad Polumbo pointed out, Kirk previously wrote on X: "Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There's ugly speech. There's gross speech. There's evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free."”

2. A city in Hunedoara County, Romania.

noun

1. A binary radian.

verb

Etymology: 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.

1. To attach using a brad.
2. To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.