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 |
brush-off | a curt or disdainful rejection |
brush brushing | the act of brushing your hair, he gave his hair a quick brush |
crop-dusting spraying | the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) |
brush brushing | the act of brushing your teeth, the dentist recommended two brushes a day |
suction curettage vacuum aspiration | a method of induced abortion, prior to the th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix |
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 |
air filter air cleaner | a filter that removes dust from the air that passes through it |
air pump vacuum pump | a pump that moves air in or out of something |
bathroom cleaner | a preparation for cleaning bathrooms |
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 |
cleansing agent cleanser cleaner | a preparation used in cleaning something |
component constituent element | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up, especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system, spare components for cars, a component or constituent element of a system |
dust bag vacuum bag | a bag into which dirt is sucked by a vacuum cleaner |
pipe cleaner | cleaning implement consisting of a flexible tufted wire that is used to clean a pipe stem |
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 |
thermobaric bomb fuel-air bomb vacuum bomb volume-detonation bomb aerosol bomb | a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive, a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb |
toilet powder bath powder dusting powder | a fine powder for spreading on the body (as after bathing) |
tube vacuum tube thermionic vacuum tube thermionic tube electron tube thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
vacuum vacuum cleaner | an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction |
vacuum chamber | a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed |
vacuum flask vacuum bottle | flask with double walls separated by vacuum, used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures |
vacuum gauge vacuum gage | a gauge for indicating negative atmospheric pressure |
brush cut | a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush |
component constituent element factor ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
brush fire | an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes |
brush light touch | momentary contact |
brush brushwood coppice copse thicket | a dense growth of bushes |
vacuum vacuity | a region that is devoid of matter |
cleaner | someone whose occupation is cleaning |
cleaner dry cleaner | the operator of dryleaning establishment |
street cleaner street sweeper | a worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department) |
window cleaner | someone who cleans windows for pay |
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 |