Brand and File

Brand

Brand verb - To produce a vivid impression of.

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File and brand are semantically related. In some cases you can use "File" instead a verb "Brand".

Nearby Words: branded, branding, Brande

File verb - To make smooth by friction.

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Brand and file are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brand" instead a verb "File".

Nearby Words: filed, filing, filer

old	old brand	old file
rare	rare brand	rare file
special	special brand	special file
exact	exact brand	exact file
Other adjectives: specific, certain, separate, original, fake, entire, wrong, bad, personal, new, final, different.

In extreme cases, the game can permanently 'brand' the player's save file with some kind of designation to indicate the use of cheat codes (some games can erase their save file outright).

Source: No Fair Cheating
Brand X Busy Beaver: Subverted from the rejected characters file: Bricker Van Damme, the world's laziest beaver.

Source: Comic Strip / Get Fuzzy
Whether "GIF" (the file format that's used today for animated image files) should be pronounced "jif" (as in the peanut butter brand) or "gif" (with 'g' being pronunced like the 'g' in "garden").

Source: Broken Base / Other

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