brush

Definitions of brush in various dictionaries:

noun - a dense growth of bushes

noun - an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

noun - momentary contact

noun - conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

noun - a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)

noun - a minor short-term fight

noun - the act of brushing your teeth

noun - the act of brushing your hair

noun - contact with something dangerous or undesirable

verb - rub with a brush, or as if with a brush

verb - touch lightly and briefly

verb - clean with a brush

verb - sweep across or over

verb - remove with or as if with a brush

verb - cover by brushing

A device consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, or painting.

The act of using this device.

A light touch in passing; a graze.

A bushy tail: the brush of a fox.

A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.

A snub; a brushoff.

To clean, polish, or groom with a brush.

To apply with or as if with motions of a brush.

To remove with or as if with motions of a brush.

To dismiss abruptly or curtly: brushed the matter aside; brushed an old friend off.

To touch lightly in passing; graze against.

To use or apply a brush.

To move past something so as to touch it lightly.

To refresh one’s memory.

The central meaning shared by these verb s is “to make light and momentary contact with something in passing”: her arm brushing mine; flicked the paper with his finger; an arrow that glanced off the tree; a knife blade grazing the countertop; a taxi that shaved the curb; an oar skimming the surface of the pond.

A dense growth of bushes or shrubs.

Land covered by such a growth.

Cut or broken branches.

verb - to touch lightly

BRUSH - A brush is a common tool with bristles, wire or other filaments. It is used for cleaning, grooming hair, make up, painting, surface finishing and ...