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. |
Brushwood (n.) Brush |
Brushwood (n.) Small branches of trees cut off. |
Layer (n.) One who, or that which, lays. |
Layer (n.) That which is laid |
Layer (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation. |
Layer (n.) An artificial oyster bed. |
Pipe layer () One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc. |
Pipe layer () A politician who works in secret |
Slope (v. i.) An oblique direction |
Slope (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. |
Slope (a.) Sloping. |
Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner. |
Slope (v. t.) To form with a slope |
Slope (v. i.) To take an oblique direction |
Slope (v. i.) To depart |
Wood-layer (n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. |
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 |
brush brushing | the act of brushing your teeth, the dentist recommended two brushes a day |
brush clash encounter skirmish | a minor short-term fight |
stabilization stabilisation | the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable, he worked for price stabilization for farm products, wage stabilization is necessary for industrial peace, stabilization means that the product can be handled under atmospheric conditions |
stabilization stabilisation | the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn |
layer | thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells |
germ layer | (embryology) any of the layers of cells differentiated in embryos following gastrulation |
layer | a hen that lays eggs |
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 |
layer bed | single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance, slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach |
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 |
gradient slope | the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal, a five-degree gradient |
upgrade rise rising slope | the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises |
stratum corneum corneum horny layer | the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off |
stratum germinativum stratum basale malpighian layer rete Malpighii | the innermost layer of the epidermis |
brush cut | a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush |
bulbar conjunctiva conjunctival layer of bulb tunica conjunctiva bulbi | the part of the conjunctiva covering the anterior face of the sclera and the surface epithelium of the cornea |
palpebra conjunctiva conjunctival layer of eyelids tunica conjunctiva palpebrarum | the part of the conjunctiva lining the posterior surface of the eyelids, continuous with the bulbar conjunctiva |
membrane tissue layer | a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants |
level layer stratum | an abstract place usually conceived as having depth, a good actor communicates on several levels, a simile has at least two layers of meaning, the mind functions on many strata simultaneously |
brush fire | an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes |
brush light touch | momentary contact |
layer cake | cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting |
brush brushwood coppice copse thicket | a dense growth of bushes |
approach path approach glide path glide slope | the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing |
D-layer D region | the lowest region of the ionosphere ( tomiles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves |
Appleton layer F layer F region | the highest region of the ionosphere (fromto miles up) which contains the highest concentration of free electrons and is most useful for longange radio transmission |
Heaviside layer Kennelly-Heaviside layer E layer E region | a region of the ionosphere (fromtomiles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length |
layer | a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another |
continental slope bathyal zone bathyal district | the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone |
ozone layer ozonosphere | a layer in the stratosphere (at approximatelymiles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun |
ski slope | a snowovered slope for skiing |
slope incline side | an elevated geological formation, he climbed the steep slope, the house was built on the side of a mountain |
boundary layer | the layer of slower flow of a fluid past a surface |
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 |