Brush meanings. All definitions of Brush

countable noun brush A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair. 3

verb brush If you brush something or brush something such as dirt off it, you clean it or tidy it using a brush. 3

verb brush Brush is also a noun. 3

verb brush If you brush something with a liquid, you apply a layer of that liquid using a brush. 3

verb brush If you brush something somewhere, you remove it with quick light movements of your hands. 3

verb brush If one thing brushes against another or if you brush one thing against another, the first thing touches the second thing lightly while passing it. 3

verb brush If you brush past someone or brush by them, you almost touch them as you go past them. 3

countable noun brush If you have a brush with someone, you have an argument or disagreement with them. You use brush when you want to make an argument or disagreement sound less serious than it really is. 3

countable noun brush If you have a brush with a particular situation, usually an unpleasant one, you almost experience it. 3

uncountable noun brush Brush is an area of rough open land covered with small bushes and trees. You also use brush to refer to the bushes and trees on this land. 3

noun brush a device made of bristles, hairs, wires, etc, set into a firm back or handle: used to apply paint, clean or polish surfaces, groom the hair, etc 3

noun brush the act or an instance of brushing 3

noun brush a light stroke made in passing; graze 3

noun brush a brief encounter or contact, esp an unfriendly one; skirmish 3

noun brush the bushy tail of a fox, often kept as a trophy after a hunt, or of certain breeds of dog 3

noun brush an electric conductor, esp one made of carbon, that conveys current between stationary and rotating parts of a generator, motor, etc 3

noun brush a dark brush-shaped region observed when a biaxial crystal is viewed through a microscope, caused by interference between beams of polarized light 3

verb brush to clean, polish, scrub, paint, etc, with a brush 3

verb brush to apply or remove with a brush or brushing movement 3

verb brush to touch lightly and briefly 3

verb brush to move so as to graze or touch something lightly 3

noun brush a thick growth of shrubs and small trees; scrub 3

noun brush land covered with scrub 3

noun brush broken or cut branches or twigs; brushwood 3

noun brush wooded sparsely populated country; backwoods 3

abbreviation BRUSH brushwood 3

noun brush sparsely settled country, covered with wild scrub growth 3

noun brush a device having bristles, hairs, or wires fastened into a hard back, with or without a handle attached: brushes are used for cleaning, polishing, painting, smoothing the hair, etc. 3

noun brush a device of wires attached in a fanlike spread to a handle, used as on drums or cymbals for a swishing or muted effect 3

noun brush the act of brushing 3

noun brush a light, grazing stroke 3

abbreviation BRUSH brushwork 3

noun brush a bushy tail, esp. that of a fox 3

abbreviation BRUSH brushoff 3

noun brush a piece, plate, rod, or bundle of carbon, copper, etc. used as a conductor between an external circuit and a revolving part, as in a motor 3

noun brush brush discharge 3

verb transitive brush to use a brush on; clean, polish, paint, smooth, etc. with a brush 3

verb transitive brush to apply, spread, remove, etc. with a stroke or strokes as of a brush 3

verb transitive brush to go over lightly, as with a brush 3

verb transitive brush to touch or graze in passing 3

intransitive verb brush to move so as to push lightly aside, skim, or graze past something 3

intransitive verb brush to hurry 3

noun brush a short, quick fight, skirmish, etc. 3

noun brush decorator's paintbrush 1

noun brush artist's paintbrush 1

noun brush bristled implement for hair 1

noun brush bristled cleaning tool 1

transitive verb brush clean, scrub 1

transitive verb brush paint, etc.: apply 1

transitive verb brush remove, wipe 1

ALL meanings of brush