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brush

noun

/brʌʃ/ us

/brʌʃ/

brush noun (TOOL)

an object with short pieces of stiff hair, plastic, or wire attached to a base or handle, used for cleaning, arranging your hair, or painting:

I can't find my brush, but I still have my comb.

You'll need a stiff brush to scrape off the rust.

a clothes brush

a scrubbing (US scrub) brush

a pastry brush

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A2 [ C ]

used as a combining form:

a hairbrush

a toothbrush

a paintbrush

B2 [ S ] mainly UK

an act of cleaning with a brush:

These shoes need a good brush.

Don't forget to give your hair a brush before you go out.

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She leaned the brush against the wall.
a shaving brush
We'll need some wallpaper paste and a big brush.
Get me a brush and I'll sort your hair out.
a brush stroke

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Equipment used for cleaning

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Hair care

Painting & drawing materials

Cleaning & tidying places & things

brush noun (TOUCH)

[ C usually singular ]

a quick, light touch:

He felt the brush of her hand on his.

a brush with something

a situation in which you experience something, or almost experience something, especially something unpleasant:

have a brush with death Jim had a brush with death (= was nearly killed) on the motorway.

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Touching & feeling

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brush noun (BUSHES)

[ U ] US

small, low bushes or the rough land they grow on:

We spotted a jackrabbit hidden in the brush.

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brush fire

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[ U ] US

→ brushwood

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Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses

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Bushes & shrubs

Forestry

brush noun (TAIL)

[ C ]

the tail of a fox

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Miscellaneous animal body parts

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brush

verb

/brʌʃ/ us

/brʌʃ/

brush verb (TOUCH)

B2 [ I + adv/prep, T ]

to touch (something) quickly and lightly or carelessly:

brush against Charlotte brushed against him as she left the room.

His lips gently brushed her cheek and he was gone.

C1 [ T + adv/prep ]

to move something somewhere using a brush or your hand:

Jackie brushed the hair out of her eyes.

brush something away He brushed away a tear.

She stood up and brushed the wrinkles from her dress.

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She brushed away what looked suspiciously like a tear.
He paused to brush a fly away from his face.
"What's the matter?" he asked, brushing a stray hair off his jacket.
Her elbow brushed against the cup, spilling tea everywhere.
She stood up and brushed an insect from her skirt.

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Touching & feeling

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Cleaning generally

brush verb (CLEAN)

A2 [ T ]

to clean something or make something smooth with a brush:

brush your teeth When did he last brush his teeth, she wondered.

brush your hair She brushed her hair with long, regular strokes.

[ + obj + adj ] My trousers got covered in mud, but luckily I was able to brush them clean.

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I can't brush your hair if you don't keep still!
She took her hairbrush from her handbag and began to brush her hair.
She brushed her long red hair.
He hadn't brushed his hair and his clothes were rumpled.
She touched up her lipstick and brushed her hair.

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Cleaning generally

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Phrasal verbs

brush someone/something aside
brush someone/something off
brush something off
brush past someone
brush up (on) something

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brush

noun

/brʌʃ/

brush noun (TOOL)

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[ C ]

any of various utensils consisting of hairs or fibers arranged in rows or grouped together, attached to a handle, and used for smoothing the hair, cleaning things, painting, etc.:

I need a better brush for my hair.

[ C ]

Brush is often used as a combining form:

hairbrush

toothbrush

paintbrush

brush noun (BUSHES)

[ U ]

low, dense bushes that grow on open land:

The river banks were covered with brush.

brush noun (TOUCH)

[ C usually sing ]

A brush with something or someone is a close and usually unpleasant meeting:

The subway system has survived several brushes with bankruptcy.

brush

verb

/brʌʃ/

brush verb (TOUCH)

[ I/T ]

to touch something lightly:

[ T ] A warm gust of wind brushed my cheek.

[ I ] The cat brushed against my leg.

brush verb (TOOL)

[ T ]

to remove or improve the appearance of something using your hand or a brush:

She brushed a strand of hair from her face.

She brushed her hair.

brush your teeth

To brush your teeth is to clean them using a small brush and toothpaste.

Phrasal verbs

brush yourself off
brush aside something/someone
brush off something
brush off someone/something
brush up on something

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Thus, in practice, a brush unit would experience rapid acceleration and deceleration, which is not the case in these tests.

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They can then be easily picked up with a small moistened paint-brush and transferred at once to the alcohol in the collecting tubes.

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Subjects were asked to use the swab as if brushing their teeth for 30-60 s until the device was very wet.

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Rehabilitation is about realizing potential, with both a positive attitude and a broad-brush approach.

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However, it should be noted that this may be a lower speed than that for a brush unit whilst deployed in a real application.

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Leaves on control plants were brushed on the upper surface with a fine paintbrush to simulate manipulation and also enclosed within a clip cage.

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When this problem arose, the bubbles were removed by carefully brushing the sensor.

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Additionally, protected specimen brush samples of two patients grew >1000 c. f. u./ml of these bacteria.

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In routine work it is customary for observers to collect a sample of 50 eggs off the plants of record, brushing off those uncollected.

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This brief review paints a broad-brush picture of what has been established in systematic research about correlations between family processes and children's adaptation.

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In fact, there are a good many reasons to take the embittered reflections and prejudices of contemporaries seriously, and not to brush them aside.

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Ten individuals returned both conventional and antibacterial brushes that yielded colonies.

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Between the brush head and the shaft they fitted a strain gauge load cell, which measured the horizontal and vertical force the sweeper was applying.

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No surviving bacteria were isolated at 6 days from either type of brush.

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Only cells with well-defined brush borders were studied.

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