Branding vs. Tattooing — What's the Difference?

A trademark or distinctive name identifying a product, service, or organization.

A signal sounded on a drum or bugle to summon soldiers or sailors to their quarters at night.

A product or service so identified

A display of military exercises and music offered as evening entertainment.

An association of positive qualities with a widely recognized name, as of a product line or celebrity

A continuous, even drumming or rapping.

A distinctive category; a particular kind

A permanent mark or design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment or by raising scars.

A mark indicating identity or ownership, burned on the hide of an animal with a hot iron.

A design made on the skin with a temporary dye such as henna or ink.

A mark burned into a person's flesh, as to identify a convicted criminal or a slave.

To beat out an even rhythm, as with the fingers.

A mark burned into a person's flesh for ornamental or aesthetic purposes.

To beat or tap rhythmically on; rap or drum on.

An association of disgrace or notoriety with something; a stigma.

To mark (the skin) with a tattoo.

A branding iron.

To form (a tattoo) on the skin.

A piece of burning or charred wood.

The act of beating out a rhythm on a drum

(Archaic) A sword

The act of marking the skin with a tattoo

To mark with a hot iron, as to show ownership

Present participle of tattoo

To provide with or publicize using a brand name or other readily recognized identifier

To consider or label as disgraceful or infamous; stigmatize

To impress firmly; fix ineradicably

The process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person or animal.

The promotion of a commercial brand of product in order to give it greater public awareness.

Present participle of brand

The act of stigmatizing