brad

noun

1. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.

   “Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.”

2. (US)A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
3. A binary radian.

verb

1. (transitive)To attach using a brad.
2. (transitive)To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.

name

1. A diminutive of the male given names Bradley, Bradly, or Bradford, also used as a formal given name.

   “[…] Brad Schimel wants to make sure women don’t have the right to make their own health care decisions. If he wins, that right is gone,” Crawford says in the ad.”

   “As journalist Brad Polumbo pointed out, Kirk previously wrote on X: "Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There's ugly speech. There's gross speech. There's evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free."”

2. A city in Hunedoara County, Romania.