📖 B — The English dictionary · page 50

brochure — Everyday, meaning 1: A brochure is a small thin booklet or leaflet with pictures and information, usually about a product, a place to visit or a service.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A school or holiday brochure tells you what is offered and often the prices.↗ Example: We picked up a brochure about the zoo.↗ · Mum read the holiday brochure on the train.↗ · Our class made a brochure for our town.↗ · The brochure says tickets cost 12 pounds for adults.↗ · Please take a brochure on your way out.↗ · The school brochure shows the new science lab.↗

brogue — Everyday, meaning 1: A brogue is a strong leather shoe with small holes punched in its pattern.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A brogue is a strong accent, the way people speak in parts of Ireland or Scotland.↗ Example: He polished his brown brogues before the dance.↗ · Her brogue made the old words sound lovely.↗ · The name of the sprite comes from an old Irish word for a shoe.↗

broil — Everyday, meaning 1: To broil is to cook food over or under a hot flame or fire.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A broil is a noisy quarrel or fight.↗ Example: Mum broils the fish under the grill.↗ · Let the sausages broil until brown.↗ · It is sad that such a day should bring broils and fights.↗

broiled — Everyday, meaning 1: Broiled means cooked over or under a hot flame, grilled.↗ Example: I shall bring you the broiled venison.↗ · Patkasa broiled the venison over the fire.↗ · We ate broiled fish on toast.↗

broke — Everyday, meaning 1: Broke is the past form of break.↗ e.g. I broke the window.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Broke (informal) means having no money.↗ e.g. I'm broke until my next pocket money.↗ Example: I broke my arm when I fell off my bike.↗ · The vase fell and broke.↗ · He broke his promise.↗ · Our car broke down on the motorway.↗ · A fire broke out in the kitchen.↗ · She broke the school record for running.↗ · We broke up for the summer holidays.↗ · I spent all my money, so I'm broke.↗ · And the mace broke in two.↗ · And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.↗ (Torah EXO.32.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.↗ (Torah DEU.9.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.↗ (Torah EXO.9.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus they provoked Him with their doings, and the plague broke in upon them.↗ (Writings PSA.106.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And he broke down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.↗ (Prophets JDG.8.17, JPS 1917)↗

broken — Everyday, meaning 1: Broken means damaged, or in pieces.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Broken means not working: «The TV is broken».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A broken promise is one that was not kept.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Broken English is spoken with many mistakes.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A broken bone is a cracked bone.↗ Example: 4 of the 24 eggs were broken.↗ · He has 10 crayons; 3 are broken.↗ · How many plates are not broken?↗ · The broken stick was cut into 3 pieces.↗ · She has a broken arm.↗ · The window was broken by a ball.↗ · My watch is broken.↗ · Don't touch broken glass, tell an adult.↗ · He felt sad about the broken promise.↗ · Draw a broken line between the points.↗ · And now my heart is broken."↗ · or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, (Torah LEV.21.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose — for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies — (Torah EXO.32.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue toucheth, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.↗ (Torah LEV.15.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image?↗ (Prophets JER.22.28, JPS 1917)↗ · He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.↗ (Writings PSA.34.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Who healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.↗ (Writings PSA.147.3, JPS 1917)↗

broker — Everyday, meaning 1: A broker is a person who buys and sells things for other people, such as shares, goods or old pictures.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A broker is someone who arranges a deal between two people.↗ Example: The old man bought a picture at the broker's.↗ · A broker sold the family's old chairs.↗ · The broker found a buyer for the house.↗

brolly — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, NZ, informal) An umbrella.↗ Example: Don't forget your brolly!↗ · My brolly blew inside out in the wind.↗ · Gran never leaves home without a brolly.↗ · Can I share your brolly?↗ · I left my brolly on the bus.↗

brontosaurus — Everyday, meaning 1: A huge plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck, long tail and four thick legs; its name means "thunder lizard".↗ Example: The brontosaurus had a very long neck.↗ · Brontosaurus means "thunder lizard".↗ · The brontosaurus ate plants, not meat.↗ · We saw a brontosaurus skeleton at the museum.↗ · Scientists argued for years about whether brontosaurus was a real separate dinosaur.↗ · A brontosaurus was longer than a school bus.↗

bronze — Everyday, meaning 1: Bronze is a hard brown-gold metal made by mixing copper and tin.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bronze is a medal for third place.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A statue or object made of bronze.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Bronze is a reddish-brown colour, like a suntan.↗ Example: She won bronze in the swimming race.↗ · Bronze is made from copper and tin.↗ · People in the Bronze Age made tools from bronze.↗ · A bronze statue stands in the park.↗ · Gold, silver and bronze go to first, second and third.↗ · His skin looked bronze after the beach holiday.↗ · “A bronze ring that is hidden under a cushion.”↗

brooch — Everyday, meaning 1: A brooch is a piece of jewellery with a pin, worn to fasten or decorate clothes.↗ Example: The stranger wore a silver brooch on his cloak.↗ · The king gave her a golden brooch.↗ · She put the brooch away in a box.↗

brood — Everyday, meaning 1: A family of baby birds or other young animals born at the same time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (humorous) A large family of children.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To keep thinking about something that makes you unhappy or angry, in a gloomy way.↗ Example: The hen had a brood of ten chicks.↗ · The bird broods her eggs for two weeks.↗ · Stop brooding over that argument.↗ · He sat brooding in his room.↗ · Mrs Weasley looked after her large brood.↗ · The ducks led their brood to the pond.↗ · He is a disgrace to any brood.↗ · And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.↗ (Torah NUM.32.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Upon my right hand rise the brood; they entangle my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.↗ (Writings JOB.30.12, JPS 1917)↗ · There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and brood under her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.↗ (Prophets ISA.34.15, JPS 1917)↗ · For Thou hast forsaken Thy people the house of Jacob; for they are replenished from the east, and with soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the brood of aliens.↗ (Prophets ISA.2.6, JPS 1917)↗

brooding — Everyday, meaning 1: Thinking for a long time about something that makes you sad, worried or angry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Looking dark, gloomy or threatening, like brooding clouds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of birds) Sitting on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.↗ Example: He sat brooding over the lost match.↗ · Dark, brooding clouds hung over the mountains.↗ · The brooding hen would not leave her eggs.↗ · Stop brooding and talk to someone about it.↗ · The hero was quiet and brooding.↗ · The castle looked brooding in the mist.↗ · One day as Mongan sat in the sun, brooding lamentably on his fate, mac an Da’v came to him.↗

broody — Everyday, meaning 1: (of a hen) Wanting to sit on her eggs to keep them warm until they hatch.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, UK) Wanting to have a baby.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Quiet, moody and thinking gloomy thoughts.↗ Example: The broody hen would not leave her nest.↗ · Our broody chicken sat on the eggs for three weeks.↗ · He has been broody and silent all afternoon.↗ · Seeing her baby cousin made Aunt Sue feel broody.↗ (informal, UK)↗ · The broody boy stared out of the window.↗ · A broody hen puffs up her feathers if you come near.↗

brook — Everyday, meaning 1: A small stream of fresh water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, verb) To allow or put up with something, usually in the negative: «She would brook no argument» means she would not allow any argument.↗ Example: We jumped across the little brook in the meadow.↗ · The brook babbled over the stones.↗ · Minnows swam in the clear brook.↗ · Cows drank from the brook at the bottom of the field.↗ · The water from the brook flows into the river.↗ · The teacher would brook no talking during the test.↗ · Grandad would brook no nonsense at the dinner table.↗ · A Dove saw an Ant fall into a brook.↗ · Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.'↗ And we went over the brook Zered.↗ (Torah DEU.2.13, JPS 1917)↗ · From thence they journeyed unto Gudgod; and from Gudgod to Jotbah, a land of brooks of water. — (Torah DEU.10.7, JPS 1917)↗ · and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Sea.↗ (Torah NUM.34.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.↗ (Writings PSA.74.15, JPS 1917)↗ · The brook Kishon swept them away, that ancient brook, the brook Kishon.↗ (Prophets JDG.5.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.↗ (Writings 2CH.29.16, JPS 1917)↗

brooklet — Everyday, meaning 1: A brooklet is a small brook, a little stream of running water.↗ Example: We sat by the brooklet and watched the fish.↗ · The brooklet chuckled over the stones.↗ · She went on till she came to a brooklet.↗

broom — Everyday, meaning 1: A broom is a brush with a long handle for sweeping floors.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Broom is also a wild bush with small yellow flowers.↗ Example: Use the broom to sweep up the crumbs.↗ · The witch flew across the moon on her broom.↗ · Can you sweep the leaves with the big broom?↗ · Yellow broom flowers grew on the hillside.↗ · The broom and dustpan are in the cupboard.↗ · Curling players sweep the ice with brooms.↗ · Ya-hip! ya-hip!'↗ And he flourished his broom in triumph."↗ · Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of broom.↗ (Writings PSA.120.4, JPS 1917)↗ · They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.↗ (Writings JOB.30.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And he lay down and slept under a broom-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him: 'Arise and eat.'↗ (Prophets 1KI.19.5, JPS 1917)↗

broomstick — Everyday, meaning 1: A broomstick is the long wooden handle of a broom.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In stories a witch flies through the air on a broomstick.↗ Example: The witch took her broomstick and flew away.↗ · Sweep the path with the broomstick.↗ · A broomstick stood upright in the ground.↗

broth — Everyday, meaning 1: Broth is a thin, hot soup made by boiling meat, fish or vegetables in water.↗ Example: A bowl of hot broth warmed her hands.↗ · The brownie asked only for a bowl of broth.↗ · Mum made vegetable broth for lunch.↗ · That sit among the graves, and lodge in the vaults; that eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; (Prophets ISA.65.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And the angel of God said unto him: 'Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth.'↗ And he did so.↗ (Prophets JDG.6.20, JPS 1917)↗

brother — Everyday, meaning 1: A brother is a boy or man who has the same parents as you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A half-brother shares one parent; a stepbrother is the son of your stepparent.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A brother can be a close male friend or a member of a group, like a monk.↗ Example: Her brother is 3 years older.↗ · She gave 4 candies to her brother.↗ · Tom has 2 brothers and 1 sister.↗ · Her brother has twice as many cards.↗ · My little brother is learning to walk.↗ · Do you have any brothers or sisters?↗ · My big brother walks me to school.↗ · The two brothers built a tree house.↗ · My half-brother lives with his dad.↗ · The brothers shared the cake equally.↗ · "Where are your brothers?" asked he.↗ · And again she bore his brother Abel.↗ (Torah GEN.4.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And Cain spoke unto Abel his brother.↗ (Torah GEN.4.8, JPS 1917)↗ · take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man; (Torah GEN.43.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri; (Writings 1CH.11.38, JPS 1917)↗ · Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite; (Writings 1CH.11.45, JPS 1917)↗ · The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.↗ (Writings 1CH.24.25, JPS 1917)↗

brotherhood — Everyday, meaning 1: Friendship and loyalty between people, like the feeling between brothers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A group or society of people with the same aims or job, such as a religious brotherhood.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The relationship of being brothers.↗ Example: The team felt a strong sense of brotherhood.↗ · Martin Luther King dreamed of brotherhood between all people.↗ · The monks lived together as a brotherhood.↗ · Songs about peace often talk about brotherhood.↗ · War broke the brotherhood between the two towns.↗ · Their brotherhood lasted all their lives.↗ · Hercules was touched with the little man's dauntless courage, and could not help acknowledging such a brotherhood with him as one hero feels for another.↗ · Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Binders, that the brotherhood between Judah and Israel might be broken.↗ (Prophets ZEC.11.14, JPS 1917)↗