Brush
(n.) 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 |
Brush
(n.) The bushy tail of a fox. |
Brush
(n.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles. |
Brush
(n.) Branches of trees lopped off |
Brush
(n.) A thicket of shrubs or small trees |
Brush
(n.) 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. |
Brush
(n.) The act of brushing |
Brush
(n.) A skirmish |
Brush
(n.) A short contest, or trial, of speed. |
Brush
(n.) To apply a brush to, according to its particular use |
Brush
(n.) To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush. |
Brush
(n.) To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind |
Brush
(v. i.) To move nimbly in haste |
Brush turkey
() A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. |
Brush wheel
() A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference. |
Brush wheel
() A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing. |
By-stroke
(n.) An accidental or a slyly given stroke. |
Dead-stroke
(a.) Making a stroke without recoil |
Stroke
(imp.) Struck. |
Stroke
(v. t.) The act of striking |
Stroke
(v. t.) The result of effect of a striking |
Stroke
(v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour. |
Stroke
(v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something |
Stroke
(v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing |
Stroke
(v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition |
Stroke
(v. t.) A sudden attack of disease |
Stroke
(v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart. |
Stroke
(v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished |
Stroke
(v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke |
Stroke
(v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided |
Stroke
(v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar |
Stroke
(v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished |
Stroke
(v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion |
Stroke
(v. t.) Power |
Stroke
(v. t.) Appetite. |
Stroke
(v. t.) To strike. |
Stroke
(v. t.) To rib gently in one direction |
Stroke
(v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing. |
Stroke
(v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to. |
Stroke
(v. t.) To row the stroke oar of |
| 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 |
| stroke stroking | a light touch with the hands |
| brush-off | a curt or disdainful rejection |
| brush brushing | the act of brushing your hair, he gave his hair a quick brush |
| stroke | a single complete movement |
keystroke
key stroke | the stroke of a key, one depression of a key on a keyboard, the number of keystrokes was used as a measure of work |
medal play
stroke play | golf scoring by total strokes taken |
stroke
shot | (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand, it took two strokes to get out of the bunker, a good shot requires good balance and tempo, he left me an almost impossible shot |
tennis stroke
tennis shot | the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket |
backhand
backhand stroke
backhand shot | a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke |
forehand
forehand stroke
forehand shot | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) |
| ground stroke | a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once |
| stroke | any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing |
| swimming stroke | a method of moving the arms and legs to push against the water and propel the swimmer forward |
butterfly
butterfly stroke | a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down |
golf stroke
golf shot
swing | the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
| brush brushing | the act of brushing your teeth, the dentist recommended two brushes a day |
brush
clash
encounter
skirmish | a minor short-term fight |
brush turkey
Alectura lathami | black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea |
wallaby
brush kangaroo | any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos, often brightly colored |
brush-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
coyote
prairie wolf
brush wolf
Canis latrans | small wolf native to western North America |
| brush | a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) |
nymphalid
nymphalid butterfly
brush-footed butterfly
four-footed butterfly | medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and mucheduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast |
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
| bristle brush | a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant |
| brush | an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle |
| brush | conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor |
four-stroke engine
four-stroke internalombustion engine | an internalombustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke, work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke |
rigger
rigger brush | a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists |
sable sable brush
sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
scrub brush
scrubbing brush
scrubber | a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning |
| shaving brush | a brush used to apply lather prior to shaving |
| brush cut | a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush |
| stroke | a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush, she applied the paint in careful strokes |
| hair stroke | a very fine line in writing or printing |
solidus
slash
virgule
diagonal
stroke
separatrix | a punctuation mark (
) used to separate related items of information |
accident
stroke fortuity
chance event | anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause, winning the lottery was a happy accident, the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck, it was due to an accident or fortuity |
| brush fire | an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes |
throw
stroke
cam stroke | the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam |
brush
light touch | momentary contact |
| stroke | a light touch |
brush
brushwood
coppice
copse
thicket | a dense growth of bushes |
| stroke | the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew |
| brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |
quail bush
quail brush
white thistle Atriplex lentiformis | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
sagebrush
sage brush | any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium |
bud brush
bud sagebrush
Artemis spinescens | a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States |
coyote brush
coyote bush
chaparral broom
kidney wort
Baccharis pilularis | widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle |
rabbit brush
rabbit bush
Chrysothamnus nauseosus | pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits, source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo |