Branding vs. Tattooing — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Branding and Tattooing
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Branding
A trademark or distinctive name identifying a product, service, or organization.
Tattooing
A permanent mark or design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment or by raising scars.
Branding
A mark indicating identity or ownership, burned on the hide of an animal with a hot iron.
Tattooing
A signal sounded on a drum or bugle to summon soldiers or sailors to their quarters at night.
Branding
A product or service so identified
Bought a popular brand of soap.
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Tattooing
A display of military exercises and music offered as evening entertainment.
Branding
An association of positive qualities with a widely recognized name, as of a product line or celebrity
The company tried to improve its brand by donating money to charity.
Tattooing
A continuous, even drumming or rapping.
Branding
A distinctive category; a particular kind
A brand of comedy that I do not care for.
Tattooing
A design made on the skin with a temporary dye such as henna or ink.
Branding
A mark burned into a person's flesh, as to identify a convicted criminal or a slave.
Tattooing
To beat out an even rhythm, as with the fingers.
Branding
A mark burned into a person's flesh for ornamental or aesthetic purposes.
Tattooing
To beat or tap rhythmically on; rap or drum on.
Branding
An association of disgrace or notoriety with something; a stigma.
Tattooing
To mark (the skin) with a tattoo.
Branding
A branding iron.
Tattooing
To form (a tattoo) on the skin.
Branding
A piece of burning or charred wood.
Tattooing
The act of beating out a rhythm on a drum
Branding
(Archaic) A sword
“So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur” (Tennyson).
Tattooing
The act of marking the skin with a tattoo
Branding
To mark with a hot iron, as to show ownership
Branded the steer.
Tattooing
Present participle of tattoo
Branding
To provide with or publicize using a brand name or other readily recognized identifier
A line of cars branded with mythological names.
Branding
To consider or label as disgraceful or infamous; stigmatize
Branded the deserters as cowards.
Branding
To impress firmly; fix ineradicably
Imagery of the war has branded itself into the national consciousness.
Branding
The process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person or animal.
Branding
The promotion of a commercial brand of product in order to give it greater public awareness.
Branding
Present participle of brand
Branding
The act of stigmatizing
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