Bush

[bʊʃ]

[bʊʃ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a large wilderness area.

(noun.) vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924).

(noun.) United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974).

(noun.) 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946).

(verb.) provide with a bushing.

手打:莫尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

(n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

(n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

(n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

(n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

(v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

(v. t.) To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

(v. t.) To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

(n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

(n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

(v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

整理:丽纳

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Shrub.

整理:普雷斯利

解釋/意思:

n. a shrub thick with branches: anything of bushy tuft-like shape: any wild uncultivated country esp. at the Cape or in Australia: a bunch of ivy hung up as a tavern sign a tavern itself—'Good wine needs no bush.'—v.i. to grow thick or bushy.—v.t. to set bushes about support with bushes: to cover seeds by means of the bush-harrow.—n. Bush′-cat the serval.—adj. Bushed lost in the bush.—ns. Bush′-harr′ow a light kind of harrow used for covering grass-seeds formed of a barred frame interwoven with bushes or branches; Bush′iness; Bush′man a settler in the uncleared land of America or the Colonies a woodsman: one of a native race in South Africa (Dut. boschjesman); Bush′-rang′er in Australia a lawless fellow often an escaped criminal who takes to the bush and lives by robbery; Bush′-shrike a tropical American ant-thrush; Bush′tit a small long-tailed titmouse of West America building a large hanging-nest.—v.i. Bush′-whack to range through the bush: to fight in guerilla warfare.—ns. Bush′-whack′er a guerilla fighter: a country lout: a short heavy scythe for cutting bushes; Bush′-whack′ing the habits or practice of bush-whackers: the process of forcing a way for a boat by pulling at the bushes overhanging a stream.—adj. Bush′y full of bushes: thick and spreading.—Beat about the bush to go round about anything to evade coming to the point.

n. the metal box or lining of any cylinder in which an axle works.—v.t. to furnish with a bush.—n. Bush′-met′al hard brass gun-metal a composition of copper and tin used for journals bearings &c.

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