brush

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɹʌʃ/    美 /bɹʌʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair. countable,uncountable
  2. The act of brushing something. countable,uncountable
    — She gave her hair a quick brush.
  3. A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine. countable,uncountable
  4. A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks. countable,uncountable
    — If there was a sharp point nearby, electricity would stream from it in a luminous brush, 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.
  5. Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland. uncountable
    — We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.
  6. A short, possibly recurrent encounter or experience. countable,uncountable
    — brush with death
  7. The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox. countable,uncountable
    — 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 a brush as he had too.
  8. A tuft of hair on the mandibles. countable,uncountable
  9. A short contest, or trial, of speed. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — 1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage (originally published in Cornhill Magazine Mark and Lord Lufton had been boys together, and his lordship knew that Mark in his heart would enjoy a brush across the country quite as well as he himself.
  10. An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals. countable,uncountable
  11. An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture. countable,uncountable
    — Your bitmap image appears along the painted stroke. If you'd like to permanently create a custom sprite brush, it's fairly easy to adapt an existing MEL file[…].
  12. A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality. countable,uncountable
    — to download brushes for Photoshop
  13. In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area. countable,uncountable
  14. The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino. countable,slang,uncountable
  15. Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To clean with a brush. transitive
    — Brush your teeth.
  2. To untangle or arrange with a brush. transitive
    — Brush your hair.
  3. To apply with a brush. transitive
    — I am brushing the paint onto the walls.
  4. To remove with a sweeping motion. transitive
    — She brushed the flour off my clothes.
  5. To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing. ambitransitive
    — Her scarf brushed his skin.
  6. To clean one's teeth by brushing them. intransitive
    — Of course, Halloween does not have to be completely treatless. Plain chocolate candy is okay, provided you remember to brush afterwards.

词形变化

brushes plural brushes present,singular,third-person brushing participle,present brushed participle,past brushed past

词汇关系

衍生词
airbrush air-brush air brush antelope brush as daft as a brush badgerbrush bath-brush beard brush beebrush bitterbrush bog brush bottle brush bottlebrush bristle brush broad-brush broad brush brushability brush away brushbar brush blade brush border brushbot brush bow brush bronzewing brush coral brush cuckoo brush cut brushcutter brush-down brush fence brushfinch brushfire brush-fire brush fire brush-footed butterfly brushful brush-furred mouse brush hook brushland brushless brushlike brushmaker brushmaking brush-making brushman brushmark brush one's teeth brush past brush pen brush-pen brushproof brush rabbit brush something under the rug brushstroke brushtail brush-tailed brush-tailed mouse brush-tailed penguin brush-tailed phascogale brush-tailed porcupine brush-tailed possum brush talk brush truck brush-turkey brush turkey brush-up brush up brush up to brush warbler brushware brushwheel brush wheel brushwise brush wolf brushwood brushwork brushy Brushy Creek buckbrush butt-brush effect camel-hair brush Cedar Brush Creek clothes-brush clothesbrush clothes brush cobweb brush comb-brush coyote brush cryobrush cytobrush daft as a brush dandy brush drybrush dustbrush dustpan and brush finger brush flesh brush give someone the brush-off gun brush hair-brush hairbrush hatbrush horsebrush inkbrush kabuki brush lampbrush lens brush live over the brush mad as a brush microbrush Mungo Brush mushroom brush nailbrush paintbrush paint with a broad brush paint with a wide brush paint with the same brush Possum Brush pot scrubber brush rabbitbrush red brush sagebrush sage brush scouring brush scratchbrush scratch-brush scratch brush scrub brush scrubbing brush shave brush shaving brush shoe brush shoe shine brush shoeshine brush slicker brush snowbrush sponge brush spool brush spoolie brush tar-brush tarbrush tar with the same brush toilet brush tongue brush toothbrush touch of the tar brush underbrush western brush wallaby wire-brush wire brush brush head brushable brush aside brush back brushback brush by brush down brushed brusher brush-off brush off brush out brush over brush something under the carpet overbrush rebrush unbrush
相关词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís
Proto-Germanic *burstiz
Frankish *burstibor.
Vulgar Latin *brustia
Old French broissebor.
Middle English brusshe
English brush
From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusgo-.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís
Proto-Germanic *burstiz
Frankish *burstibor.
Vulgar Latin *brustia
Old French broissebor.
Middle English brusshe
English brush
From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusgo-.
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