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Definition of 'Brush'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) brush
an implement consisting of bristles, hair, or the like and a handle, used for painting, cleaning, grooming, etc.

2.  brush
either of a pair of wire-bristled, brushlike devices used to mark a soft rhythmic beat on drums or cymbals.

3.  brush
the bushy tail of an animal, esp. a fox.

4.  brush
an electrical conductor, often of carbon or copper, serving to maintain electric contact between stationary and moving parts of a motor, generator, etc.

5.  brush
any feathery or hairy tuft or tassel.

6.  brush
an application of a brush.

7.  brush
a light, stroking touch.

8.  brush
a close approach, esp. to something undesirable or harmful; skirmish:
a brush with disaster.

9.  brush
the brush, a rejection or rebuff.

10. (v.t.) brush
to sweep, paint, clean, polish, etc., with a brush.

11.  brush
to touch lightly in passing; pass lightly over.

12.  brush
to remove by brushing or by lightly passing over.

13. (v.i.) brush
to move or skim with a slight contact.

14.  brush
brush aside, to disregard; ignore.

15.  brush
Baseball. to force (a batter) away from the plate with a fastball pitched high and inside.

16.  brush
brush off, to rebuff; send away.

17.  brush
brush up (on), to revive or review.

18. (n.) brush
a dense growth of bushes, shrubs, etc.; scrub; thicket.

19.  brush
dense, low-growing bushes and shrubs.

20.  brush
land or area covered with dense, low growth.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME brusshe < MF broisse, OF broce underbrush)

Definition of 'Brush'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
a dense growth of bushes

2. (noun) brush
an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

3. (noun) brush, light touch
momentary contact

4. (noun) brush
conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

5. (noun) brush
a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)

6. (noun) brush, clash, encounter, skirmish
a minor short-term fight

7. (noun) brush, brushing
the act of brushing your teeth
"the dentist recommended two brushes a day"

8. (noun) brush, brushing
the act of brushing your hair
"he gave his hair a quick brush"

9. (verb) brush
contact with something dangerous or undesirable
"I had a brush with danger on my way to work"; "he tried to avoid any brushes with the police"

10. (verb) brush
rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
"Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket"

11. (verb) brush
touch lightly and briefly
"He brushed the wall lightly"

12. (verb) brush
clean with a brush
"She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet"

13. (verb) brush, sweep
sweep across or over
"Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience"

14. (verb) brush
remove with or as if with a brush
"brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections"

15. (verb) brush
cover by brushing
"brush the bread with melted butter"

Definition of 'Brush'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) brush
an object with stiff hairs used for painting, cleaning, making hair neat, etc.
a hair brush; a scrubbing/paint brush

2. brush
a brush with
a brief experience of sth unpleasant
a brush with the police

3. (verb) brush
to clean or neaten with a brush
to brush your hair/teeth

4. brush
to touch lightly
She felt his leg brush against hers.

Definition of 'Brush'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Brush
an instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc

2. (noun) Brush
the bushy tail of a fox

3. (noun) Brush
a tuft of hair on the mandibles

4. (noun) Brush
branches of trees lopped off; brushwood

5. (noun) Brush
a thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush

6. (noun) Brush
a bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus

7. (noun) Brush
the act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed

8. (noun) Brush
a skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy

9. (noun) Brush
a short contest, or trial, of speed

10. (noun) Brush
to apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush

11. (noun) Brush
to touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush

12. (noun) Brush
to remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off

13. (verb) Brush
to move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by

Definition of 'Brush'

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. Brush
In electric current generators and motors, the pieces of copper or other material that bear against the cylindrical surface of the commutator are thus termed. Many different constructions have been employed. Some have employed little wheels or discs bearing against and rotating on the surface of the commutator. A bundle of copper strips is often employed, placed flatwise. Sometimes the same are used, but are placed edgewise. Wire in bundles, soldered together at their distant ends have been employed. Carbon brushes, which are simply rods or slabs of carbon, are used with much success.

Synonym--Collecting Brush.

Translation of 'Brush'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an instrument with bristles, wire, hair etc for cleaning, scrubbing etc a toothbrush; He sells brushes.
Afrikaans: borsel	Arabic: أداةٌ مَع فُرشاه	Bulgarian: четка
Brazilian: escova	Czech: kartáč(ek)	German: die Bürste
Danish: børste	Greek: βούρτσα, πινέλο	Spanish: cepillo
Estonian: hari	Farsi: برس؛ فرچه	Finnish: harja
French: brosse	Hebrew: מִברֶשֶת	Hindi: कूची
Croatian: četka	Hungarian: kefe	Indonesian: sikat
Italian: spazzola, spazzolino	Japanese: ブラシ	Korean: 브러시, 솔
Lithuanian: šepetys, šepetukas, teptu	Latvian: suka	Malay: berus
Dutch: borstel	Norwegian: børste, kost	Polish: szczotka, pędzel
Persian: برس؛ فرچه	Pashto: برس	Portuguese: escova
Romanian: perie	Russian: щётка	Slovak: kef(k)a
Slovenian: krtača	Serbian: četka	Swedish: borste
Thai: แปรง	Turkish: fırça	Taiwanese: 刷子
Ukrainian: щітка	Urdu: صفائی کرنے والا برش	Vietnamese: bàn chải
Chinese: 刷子
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