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English

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Etymology

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Two kinds ofbrushes.

FromMiddle Englishbrusshe, fromOld Frenchbroisse (ModernFrenchbrosse), fromVulgar Latin*brustia, fromFrankish*bursti, fromProto-Germanic*burstiz(“bristle”), or alsoVulgar Latin*bruscia, fromProto-Germanic*bruskaz(“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be fromProto-Indo-European*bʰrusgo-.[1]

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Noun

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brush (countable anduncountable,pluralbrushes)

  2. Animplement consisting of multiple more or less flexiblebristles or otherfilaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes includingcleaning,painting, and arranginghair.
  3. The act of brushing something.
    She gave her hair a quickbrush.
  4. A piece ofconductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
  5. A brush-like electricaldischarge ofsparks.
    Synonym:corposant
    • 2001, Oliver Sacks,Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:
      If there was a sharp point nearby, electricity would stream from it in a luminousbrush, a little corposant, and one could blow out candles with the outstreaming “electric wind,” or even get this to turn a little rotor on its pivot.
  7. (uncountable) Wildvegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. Seeshrubland.
    • 1906, Jack London,Before Adam,chapter 12:
      Webroke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in thebrush theycaught up with us, and more than once it wasnip and tuck.
    • 2006,Edwin Black, chapter 2, inInternal Combustion:
      One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees andbrush annually.
  8. A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
    brush with death
    He has hadbrushes with communism from time to time.
    • 2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'”, inThe Guardian:
      The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting abrush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.
  9. Thefurrytail of an animal, especially of afox.
    • 1879,R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, inThe Amateur Poacher, London:Smith, Elder, & Co., […],→OCLC:
      They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent abrush as he had too.
  10. (zoology) Atuft ofhair on themandibles.
  11. (archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
    • 1860,Anthony Trollope,Framley Parsonage (originally published inCornhill Magazine
      Mark and Lord Lufton had been boys together, and his lordship knew that Mark in his heart would enjoy abrush across the country quite as well as he himself.
  12. (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound fromdrums orcymbals.
  13. (computer graphics) An on-screentool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
    • 2007, Lee Lanier,Maya Professional Tips and Techniques, page12:
      Your bitmap image appears along the painted stroke. If you'd like to permanently create a custom spritebrush, it's fairly easy to adapt an existing MEL file […].
  14. (computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
    Coordinate term:texture
    to downloadbrushes for Photoshop
  15. (video games) In 3Dvideo games, aconvexpolyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
  16. (poker, slang) Thefloorperson of a poker room, usually in acasino.
  17. (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreenboughs, especiallybalsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in makingwreaths.

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Translations

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implement
implement for writing
electrical contact
act of brushing
wild vegetation
short experience
furry tail
music: instrument

Verb

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brush (third-person singular simple presentbrushes,present participlebrushing,simple past and past participlebrushed)

  1. (transitive) Toclean with a brush.
    Brush your teeth.
  2. (transitive) Tountangle or arrange with a brush.
    Brush your hair.
  3. (transitive) Toapply with a brush.
    I ambrushing the paint onto the walls.
  4. (transitive) Toremove with a sweeping motion.
    Shebrushed the flour off my clothes.
  5. (ambitransitive) Totouch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
    Her scarfbrushed his skin.
  6. (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
    • 2000,USA Today, volume129, numbers2662-2673, page92:
      Of course, Halloween does not have to be completely treatless. Plain chocolate candy is okay, provided you remember tobrush afterwards.

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Translations

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to clean (with a brush)
to untangle/arrange
to apply
to remove
to touch

See also

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References

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  1. ^Kroonen, Guus (2013) “bruska”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston:Brill,→ISBN,page80
  2. ^Stanley, Oma (1937) “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, inThe Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2),New York:Columbia University Press,→DOI,→ISBN,§ 12, page27.

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Middle English

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Noun

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brush

  1. Alternative form ofbroche

Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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brush

  1. (slang)bro (as a term of address)
    Synonym:bror
    Bra jobbat,brush!
    Good work,bro!

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