Meaning
1 sensesTo clean (metal) using a branner.
Examples
5 sentencesRemember to eat lots of bran.
I can't eat bran cereal without fruit.
Remember to eat lots of bran to keep your bowels moving.
The machine is used to remove the husk and bran layers to produce a white kernel that is free of impurities.
The Bran Castle, situated in Transylvania, is also know as Dracula's castle.
deDas in Siebenbürgen gelegene Schloss Bran ist auch als das Draculaschloss bekannt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
From Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from GFrom Middle English bran, branne, bren, from Old French bren, bran (“bran, filth”), from Gaulish brennos (“rotten”), from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, foul”) (compare Welsh braen (“stench”), Irish bréan (“rancid”), Walloon brin (“excrement”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (compare Latin fragrāre (“to smell strongly”), Dutch brak (“hound”)).
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Forms
brans, branning, branned, brannedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.