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What does bray mean?

Definitions for bray
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Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word bray.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bray(verb)

    the cry of an ass

  2. hee-haw, bray(verb)

    braying characteristic of donkeys

  3. grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute(verb)

    reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

    "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"

  4. bray(verb)

    laugh loudly and harshly

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bray(verb)

    to pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine

  2. Bray(verb)

    to utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass

  3. Bray(verb)

    to make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise

  4. Bray(verb)

    to make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound

  5. Bray(noun)

    the harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound

  6. Bray(noun)

    a bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling

Freebase

  1. Bray

    Bray is a town in north County Wicklow, Ireland. It is a busy urban centre and seaside resort, with a population of 31,872 making it the fourth largest in Ireland as of the 2011 census. It is situated about 20 km south of Dublin on the east coast. Bray is the location of some industry, is home for many who commute to Dublin by car or rail, is a shopping town for the surrounding area, and still attracts tourists, particularly from Dublin at weekends. The town straddles the Dublin-Wicklow border, with a portion of the northern suburbs situated in County Dublin. Bray is the location of Ireland's only dedicated film studios, Ardmore Studios.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bray

    brā, v.t. to break, pound, or grind small, as in a mortar.—n. Bray′er, an instrument to grind or spread ink in printing. [O. Fr. breier (Fr. broyer); It. brigare.]

  2. Bray

    brā, n. the cry of the ass: any harsh grating sound.—v.i. to cry like an ass: to give forth harsh sounds, esp. of the trumpet.—ns. Bray′er, one who brays like an ass; Bray′ing, the noise of an ass: any harsh noise.—adj. making a harsh noise. [O. Fr. brai, brait; braire—Low L. bragire, prob. of Celt. origin.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Bray

    a Berkshire village, famous for Simon Aleyn, its vicar from 1540 to 1588, who, to retain his living, never scrupled to change his principles; he lived in the reigns of Charles II., James II., William III., Queen Anne, and George I.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. bray

    A small town in the department of Seine-et-Marne, France; it was occupied by the allies, February 12, 1814.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bray in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bray in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bray in a Sentence

  1. Anuj Somany:

    When the lion is not around, the monkeys enjoy and donkeys bray

  2. Sophocles, Antigone:

    For God hates utterlyThe bray of bragging tongues.

  3. Timothy Tan:

    Jackie Bray added, Bureaucracy and dysfunction, and all kinds of barriers to serving patients. The director of clinical operations at the Queens Hospital Center, Dr. Timothy Tan, also spoke with the Times and slammed the incompetence of city officials for not taking some of the pressure off overburdened hospitals, by sending more patients to the Billy Jean King facility. Knowing what our patients had to endure in an overcrowded emergency department, its frustrating how few patients were treated at facilities such as Billie Jean King.

  4. Sophocles:

    For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

  5. Anuj Somany:

    A monkey plays only with the monkeys, a donkey only enjoys the bray of the donkeys; these and other examples prove that the NATURE helps round the clock to bring & bond together automatically every living creature of the common internal features and there is absolutely no glitch possible in its working & the people can’t be an exception. So rest assured, a person doesn’t need to surround anyone or go around finding someone better & beautiful as everything depends purely on everyone’s own nature and no one has a different associates than who s/he is as character in life i.e. a good individual gets only the good, a positive stays always with the positive and so it goes with the positive. Use 

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