Brush

[brʌʃ]

解释:

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) the act of brushing your hair; 'he gave his hair a quick brush'.

(noun.) the act of brushing your teeth; 'the dentist recommended two brushes a day'.

(noun.) a minor short-term fight.

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

(noun.) an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle.

(noun.) conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor.

(noun.) momentary contact.

(noun.) a dense growth of bushes.

(verb.) remove with or as if with a brush; 'brush away the crumbs'; 'brush the dust from the jacket'; 'brush aside the objections'.

(verb.) touch lightly and briefly; 'He brushed the wall lightly'.

(verb.) rub with a brush, or as if with a brush; 'Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket'.

(verb.) clean with a brush; 'She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet'.

(verb.) sweep across or over; 'Her long skirt brushed the floor'; 'A gasp swept cross the audience'.

(verb.) cover by brushing; 'brush the bread with melted butter'.

约瑟夫编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(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; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

(n.) The bushy tail of a fox.

(n.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

(n.) Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

(n.) A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

(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.

(n.) The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.

(n.) A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.

(n.) A short contest, or trial, of speed.

(n.) To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.

(n.) To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

(n.) To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.

(v. i.) To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

整理:肯尼思

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Skirmish, engagement, rencounter, encounter, battle, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair.[2]. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, brushwood.

编辑:波西亚

解释:

n. an instrument for removing dust usually made of bristles twigs feathers or stiff grass stems: a kind of hair-pencil used by painters: a painter one who uses the brush: brushwood: a skirmish or encounter: the tail of a fox: (elect.) a brush-like discharge of sparks: one of the bundles of copper wires or flexible strips in contact with the commutator of the armature on opposite sides and which carry off the positive and negative currents of electricity generated.—v.t. to remove dust &c. from by sweeping: to touch lightly in passing: remove (with off): to thrash.—v.i. to move over lightly: to make off with a rush.—n. Brush′ing the act of rubbing or sweeping.—adj. in a lively manner: brisk.—ns. Brush′-wheel a wheel used in light machinery to turn another by having the rubbing surface covered with stiff hairs or bristles; Brush′wood rough close bushes: a thicket.—adj. Brush′y rough rugged.—To brush up to brighten revive.

整理:鲁道夫