Medical

• Brace (orthopaedic), a device used to restrict or assist body movement
• Back brace
  Back brace
  A back brace is a device designed to limit the motion of the spine in cases of fracture or in post-operative fusions. Limiting the motion of the spine enhances the healing process and minimizes the patient's discomfort.Common back braces include:...
  
  , a device limiting motion of the spine
  • Milwaukee brace
    Milwaukee brace
    The Milwaukee brace, also known as a cervico-thoraco-lumbo-sacral orthosis or CTLSO, is a back brace used in the treatment of spinal curvatures in children. It is a full-torso brace that extends from the pelvis to the base of the skull...
    
    , a kind of back brace used in the treatment of spinal curvatures
• Cervical collar
  Cervical collar
  A cervical collar is an orthopedic medical device used to support a patient's neck and head. It is also used by emergency personnel for victims of traumatic head or neck injuries, and can be used to treat chronic medical conditions....
  
  , also called a neck brace, used to restrict neck movement
• Dental braces, a device used to reposition teeth

Construction and industrial arts

• Brace (tool)
  Brace (tool)
  A brace or brace and bit is a hand tool used to drill holes, usually in wood. Pressure is applied to the top and the tool is rotated with a U-shaped grip....
  
  , a hand tool, also known as the Bit Brace
• Brace (theatre)
  Brace (theatre)
  In theater, a brace is a sliding piece of wood or metal with a 'butterfly' winged nut to make it longer or shorter to fit the flat used to stabilize a flat set piece such as a flat. The nut is used ,so that it can be changed more quickley than a screw to the floor during a quick change. Usually, a...
  
  , a stabilizer for a piece of scenery
• A reinforcement used in architecture, such as in timber framing
  Timber framing
  Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...
  
  
• Wheel brace, lug wrench, on vehicle wheels

Other meanings

• Braces (clothing), known in American English as suspenders, elastic fabric straps used to support trousers
• Brace (singer)
  Brace (singer)
  Eddy Brace Rashid MacDonald, shortened to Brace is a Dutch singer, who often collaborates with famous Dutch rapper Ali B, who helped to bring Brace to stardom after their first musical collaboration on the hit single Moppie released in the summer of 2004.-Early life:Brace was born 23 August 1986 in...
  
   (born 1986), a Dutch singer
• Braces (sailing)
  Braces (sailing)
  The braces on a square-rigged ship are lines used to rotate the yards around the mast, to allow the ship to sail at different angles to the wind....
  
  , the lines used to rotate the yards around the mast
• Bracer
  Bracer
  A bracer is a strap or sheath, commonly made of leather, stone, or plastic that covers the inside of an archer's arm to protect it while shooting. Bracers keep the inside of the archer's forearm from getting hurt by the string of the bow or the fletching of the arrow; they also prevent loose...
  
  , a strap or sheath used in archery
• Brace (sports), a term in a number of sports for "two"
• Brace position
  Brace position
  Bracing or crash position is an instruction that can be given to prepare for a crash, such as on an aircraft, the instruction to brace for impact is often given if the aircraft must make an emergency landing over land or water....
  
  , a body stance used to prepare for a crash
• Braces (punctuation), the "{" and "}" symbols
• Curly bracket programming language, a programming language that uses braces.
• Military brace
  Military brace
  The military brace is a body posture, sometimes known as scapular posterior depression or the costoclavicular maneuver. It is a modification of standing at attention that is primarily used in military schools...
  
  , a body posture primarily used in military schools
• Brace (music), connecting two staves

See also

• Bracing (disambiguation)
• Bracket (disambiguation)
  Bracket (disambiguation)
  -Punctuation:* Bracket, one of a class of punctuation marks used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text** Square bracket, one type of punctuation bracket...
  
  
• BRAC (disambiguation)
• Support (disambiguation)