brace vs one

brace

noun
  • Two goals scored by one player in a game. 

  • Harness; warlike preparation. 

  • That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop. 

  • A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension. 

  • The state of being braced or tight; tension. 

  • A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell. 

  • A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite. 

  • Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. 

  • A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds. 

  • A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves. 

  • A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon. 

  • A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. 

  • A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum. 

  • The mouth of a shaft. 

verb
  • To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly. 

  • To furnish with braces; to support; to prop. 

  • To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police. 

  • To confront with questions, demands or requests. 

  • To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen. 

  • To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow. 

  • To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly. 

  • To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind. 

one

noun
  • One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. 

  • A joke or amusing anecdote. 

  • A particularly special or compatible person or thing. 

  • A one-dollar bill. 

  • Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". 

  • The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. 

  • One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. 

  • The digit or figure 1. 

pron
  • The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. 

  • Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause. 

  • Any person (applying to people in general). 

  • One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. 

  • Any person, entity or thing. 

  • Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner. 

particle
  • Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent. 

  • Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something. 

  • A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun. 

adj
  • Whole, entire. 

  • Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". 

  • The same. 

  • In agreement. 

  • Being a preeminent example. 

  • Sole, only. 

  • Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. 

  • Of a period of time, being particular. 

verb
  • To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. 

num
  • The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. 

  • The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. 

  • The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. 

  • The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. 

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