brush
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1.0
- noun
- /brʌʃ/
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cepillo
- Just take a fluffy brush and just blend.
- brush stroke
- paint brush
- canvas and brushes
So let's grab a few dirty brushes like that.
- So let's grab a few dirty brushes like that.
- It's like little gel and brush and a bottle.
- And then we're going to use our brush, our Sonic brush.
- No, let's take the pencil brush and let's grab.
Examples
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She used a large brush to paint the living room walls.
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And then I take an angle brush and I draw them in.
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So this is what the brush kit looks like.
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I'll go get my brush.
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Again, I'm going to use this brush to blend that out.
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I love how little this brush is and it's sturdy.
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We just take our fluffy brush, blend it out.
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This is just a big fluffy brush from Coastal Scents.
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I bought a new paint brush to use on my art project.
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After washing my hair, I used a brush to style it.
Synonyms
23
1.0
A tool with a handle that smooths and styles hair
23
1.0
A tool with soft hairs for putting paint on a surface
2
2.3
A brush with short, stiff bristles for cleaning hard surfaces
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3.7
A brush with short, stiff hairs for cleaning or painting rough surfaces
1
3.2
A brush with short stiff bristles for cleaning burnt or hard dirt
1
7.0
A painting tool with soft sable hairs that makes fine, flexible points
1
1.8
A brush with short stiff bristles for cleaning hard dirt on surfaces
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1.6
A small brush that you use to put cream or soap on your face before using a razor
A small brush for removing lint and dust from coats and shirts
A small brush with stiff bristles for cleaning under fingernails
A long thin paint brush used for painting very fine lines like the ropes on a ship
A thing cows rub against to scratch and clean themselves
A device with brushes that cows use to scratch and clean themselves
Idioms
- Informal
2
7.2
Describe people or things in very general ways that ignore important details
- Informal
1
8.7
Unfairly judge a whole group because of one person's actions
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.7
A brush with short, stiff hairs for cleaning or painting rough surfaces
- Specialized
1
7.0
A painting tool with soft sable hairs that makes fine, flexible points
- Specialized
1
5.1
A way of painting that uses very little paint to make a rough, scratchy texture
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1.6
A small brush that you use to put cream or soap on your face before using a razor
- Specialized
A faint blue electric glow with many thin light rays that appears when high voltage makes a spark
- Australian
A small or medium animal like a kangaroo that lives in forests and thick bushes
- Australian
A large black bird that builds big nesting mounds in the woods of Australia and New Guinea
- Specialized
A medium to large butterfly with bright wings and small front legs not used for walking
- Specialized
A large animal with sharp spines and a brush of stiff hairs at the end of its tail
- Australian
A small animal from Australia and New Guinea that lives in trees and has a pouch and a bushy tail
- Specialized
A rodent with a brush of stiff, bead-like hairs at the tip of its tail
- US
A spreading evergreen shrub with small flowers that grows on dry hills in the southwestern United States
- US
A shrub with thin hairy branches and bright yellow flowers that smells nice and grows on western plains
- Specialized
A long thin paint brush used for painting very fine lines like the ropes on a ship
A tree from Mexico and Guatemala with dense hairy flowers that look like brushes at branch ends
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Etymology
The word brush comes from an old word for 'brushwood' or a bunch of twigs people used for sweeping and painting, so a brush is a tool made of bristles or twigs used to clean, paint, or tidy hair.