Used in a Sentence

braced

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for braced.

Editorial note

The syntax is curly braced, with <> for type parameter lists.

Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Having braces or similar supports.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of braced gathered in one view.

adjective

Having braces or similar supports.

adjective

(heraldry, of multiple figures of the same form) Interlaced.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for braced.

Example sentences

1

The syntax is curly braced, with <> for type parameter lists.

2

Thank you a million and God bless...actually i braced myself for something like get a job you loser!

3

Playing with Rust reminded me that you can do very nice things with a curly-braced syntax as well.

4

Perhaps someone will make a counterweighted and braced keyboard like they have for iPad to solve this problem.

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Perl / PHP / etc: braced blocks is a great way to keep things readable if the formatting breaks.

6

A beefier keyboard is really needed for laptop usage, braced in somehow into the tablet.

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The problem derives from starting in one direction and needing my arms to be braced enough to be quick to the keys.

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So the curly-braced style solves a lot of such inside content distortions and actually frees me from a huge waste of time.

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>Perhaps someone will make a counterweighted and braced keyboard like they have for iPad to solve this problem.

10

As a variable with automatic storage duration, it is an array whose size will be determined by the right-hand-side of an assignment from a braced initializer list.

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In that case I'm almost certain you would go for block only as it is the default in nearly all curly braced languages.

12

Note that Ruby allows non-braced interpolation with instance variables.

Quote examples

1

I was expecting it to be freezing and "braced for impact", but actually, it was quite warm and inviting.

2

Exactly, and he also suggests that in the email: "(...) and often enclosing it in a bare braced section to scope the local variables and allow editor collapsing of the section is useful".

3

If any of your peers are indeed "small, insecure, and self-loathing," as you say, then it is probably a bad idea to try to share your happiness with them in the first place; most especially if you are already braced for a negative response, but sharing the news anyways.

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“Terror,” the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai writes in his book Fear of Small Numbers, “is first of all the terror of the next attack.” The terrorism resides not just in the fact that it happens, but that one is braced for the possibility that it could happen to you at any moment.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use braced in a sentence?

The syntax is curly braced, with <> for type parameter lists.

What does braced mean?

Having braces or similar supports.

What part of speech is braced?

braced is commonly used as adjective.