Usually means: Interlaced strands forming a pattern.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word braid:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. braid: Merriam-Webster
  2. braid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. braid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. braid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. braid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Braid, braid: Wordnik
  7. braid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. braid: Wiktionary
  9. braid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. braid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. braid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Braid, braid: Dictionary.com
  13. braid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. braid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Braid (band), Braid (disambiguation), Braid (film), Braid (game), Braid (hairstyle), Braid (video game), Braid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Braid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. braid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. braid: Rhymezone
  19. Braid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. braid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Braid (braided hair): American-Britih Dictionary
  22. braid: FreeDictionary.org
  23. braid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. braid: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. braid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. braid: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. braid: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BRAID: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Braid: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. braid: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Braid: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See braided as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
verb:  (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
verb:  To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
verb:  (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
noun:  (obsolete, countable) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
noun:  A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
noun:  A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together.
noun:  A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
noun:  (obsolete) A caprice or outburst of passion or anger.
noun:  (mathematics, topology) Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.
noun:  (dialectal) A wicker guard for protecting newly grafted trees.
noun:  (obsolete) A moment, stound.
noun:  (obsolete) A turn of work, job.
noun:  (obsolete) A trick; deception.
adjective:  (obsolete) Crafty, deceitful.
noun:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A shelf or board for holding objects.
noun:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A board to press curd for cheese.
noun:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A flat board attached to a beam, used for weighing.
noun:  A surname.

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