Word Finder - braced

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

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All hands, brace for impact!

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

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He braced himself against the crowd.

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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.

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to brace the yards

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To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.

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To confront with questions, demands or requests.

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To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.

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to brace a beam in a building

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

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to brace the nerves

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To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

She braced herself for the resentful looks.

The door opened, and she braced herself.

She squinted through her fingers and braced herself against one wall to counter the effects the drugs had on her equilibrium as she moved down the long hallway.

He braced himself to tell her thanks for the night and farewell.

She braced herself, expecting to feel some sort of rush of energy, like she did when she touched Jule.

She closed her eyes and braced herself for another.

She braced herself and opened her eyes.

Xander braced himself, waiting for the rejection he knew would come.

She braced herself for him to turn into Talon and hurt her.

She braced herself for the answer.

She braced herself and placed her palm against his.

With a deep breath, she stepped through and braced herself to fall.

Katie braced herself for a storage room full of military uniforms and was surprised to see what looked much like a women's department section.

He braced himself for more syrupy love sentiments when she awoke but was

The seconds ticked as they braced for the worse.

He braced himself for the battle with his fangs and waited for the inevitable pain from fighting to keep them at bay.

The body heat of someone kneeling beside her made her blink, and she braced herself for the doc shooting her up again.

A few glanced her way, and Lana braced herself.

Taran braced himself and opened his eyes.

Several times during summer the trees ought to be regularly examined, and the young shoots respectively topped or thinned out; those that remain are to be nailed to the wall, or braced in with pieces of slender twigs, and the trees ought occasionally to be washed with the garden engine or thoroughly syringed, especially during very hot summers.

A very important feature of the faade is the portico or porch-way, which covers the principal steps and is generally formed by producing the central portion of the main roof over the steps and supporting such projection upon isolated wooden pillars braced together near the top with horizontal ties, carved, moulded and otherwise fantastically decorated.

Rozhestvenski had, moreover, numerous store-ships, colliers, &c. Nevertheless, the Japanese viewed his approach with considerable anxiety, and braced themselves for a final struggle.

The suspension chains are constructed in the form of braced girders, so that they are stiff against unsymmetrical loading.

The inclined tensions and compressions in the bars of a braced web are equivalent to this shear.

On the other hand a framed or braced web afforded opportunity for much better arrangement of material, and it very soon became apparent that open web or lattice or braced girders were more economical of material than solid web girders, except for small spans.

In both England and America in early braced bridges cast iron, generally in the form of tubes circular or octagonal in section, was used for compression members, and wrought iron for the tension members.

From some known examples, C varies from 1500 to 1800 for iron braced parallel or bowstring girders, and from 1200 to 1500 for similar girders of steel.

In the case of braced girder bridges, the wind pressure is taken as acting on a continuous surface extending from the rails to the top of the carriages, plus the vertical projected area of so much of one girder as is exposed above the train or below the rails.

Most braced girders may be considered as built up of two simple FIG.

The method of sections already described is often more convenient than the method of reciprocal figures, and the method of influence lines is also often the readiest way of dealing with braced girders.

Huygens contrived some ingenious arrangements for directing such telescopes towards any object visible in the heavens - the focal adjustment and centring of the eyepiece being preserved by a braced rod connecting the objectglass and eye-piece.

One of the most beautiful graphical constructions regularly used by engineers and known as the method of reciprocal figures is that for finding the loads supported by the several members of a braced structure, having given a system of external loads.

The soul of the sage, thought the Cynics, should be strained and braced for judgment and action; his first need is firmness (Ebrovia) and Socratic strength.

In 1881 the walls of a very large courtyard were constructed by building a braced cage of iron and filling the panels with masonry, a system of construction which had been used in the early part of the century for a tall shot-tower erected in the city of New York.

In buildings of small width in proportion to their height this method of securing rigidity, is generally found to be inadequate, and the frame is also braced at right angles to the outer walls to take up the strains directly.

Another form is known as portal bracing; this is usually braced between adjacent columns in halls or passage-ways and extends from the foundations up from floor to floor to such a height that the stability of the building itself is sufficient to resist the assumed wind pressure.

She sensed Rhyn's presence before any of the others and braced herself, almost hyperventilating.

She braced herself for the resentful looks and whispered insults she was glad Toby was too young to understand.

Uncertain whether or not the battle still waged between demons and Immortals, she braced herself to be attacked as she flew past every doorway towards the back stairwell.

He kissed her first, enjoying the feel of her blood coursing beneath his lips, then, as his fangs breached her skin, he braced for the burning that never came.

Eden braced herself, uncertain how the first spell would affect him.

I braced myself; something pretty awful was about to happen.

And unlike her sister Liza, she has none of her mother's physical mannerisms (the braced legs, the flailing arms ).

A high wing braced monoplane of partly metal structure.

They have forward and aft braced spars with integral aluminum ribs.

Stobs are replaced by 100 x 100mm uprights, braced with steel studding.

A small space is left between the end of one rail and that of the next, in order to allow for expansion in hot weather, and at the joint the two are firmly braced together by a pair of fish-plates (fig.ri).

The stiffening girder, constructed chiefly of timber, was a box-shaped braced girder 18 ft.

Petya had heard in the army many stories of Dolokhov's extraordinary bravery and of his cruelty to the French, so from the moment he entered the hut Petya did not take his eyes from him, but braced himself up more and more and held his head high, that he might not be unworthy even of such company.

Children were more independent in daily activities during braced than during unbraced periods (p =.14).