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