Brace

The word brace refers to many different things: * Curly brackets: the { and } symbols, often used to define sets. * Brace (grouping): a pair, two. * Brace (architecture): a reinforcement or stabilizer in building. * Brace (armor) or Bracer: a wrist or forearm protector. * Brace (music): a slide for adjusting tension of a drum. * Brace (theatre): a support for a flats (theatre) in a theatre. * Braces (clothing): (in American English - suspenders), a support for trousers, usually elasticated. * Brace (position) can be an instruction to ready yourself for something, as in ''brace for impact'' before a crash. * Brace (cricket): in cricket, the act of taking two wickets with two successive deliveries of the ball. * Brace (tool): a hand tool used to drill holes. * Brace (orthodontics): a metal device used to progressively straighten teeth. * Brace (orthopaedic): also Brace (orthopaedic) or Brace (orthopaedic) a device used to immobilise a joint or body segment, restrict movement in a given direction, assist movement, reduce weight-bearing forces or correct the shape of the body (adapted from Rehabilitation Medicine, ISBN 0-397-50764-X).

Brace

-- User:Longhair | User talk:Longhair 14:46, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Words begining with Brace:

Brace
Brace
Bracebridge
Bracebridge,_ON
Bracebridge,_Ontario
Bracebridge_dinner
Bracebridge_Heath
Braced_Wall_Line
Braced_wall_line
Braced_wall_line
Braceface
Bracelet
Bracelets
Bracero
Bracero_Program
Bracero_Program
Bracer_(archery)
Braces
Braces
Braces_(dentistry)
Braces_(punctuation)
Braceville,_IL
Braceville,_Illinois
Braceville_Township,_Trumbull_County,_OH
Braceville_Township,_Trumbull_County,_Ohio
Brace_(grouping)
Brace_(orthodontics)
Brace_(orthodontics)
Brace_(position)
Brace_(punctuation)
Brace_Beemer
Brace_for_impact
Brace_position
Brace_procedure
Brace_Yourself_for_the_Mediocre