brush

CEFRA2

/bɹʌʃ/

noun · verb

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  1. 01

    noun

    A tool with hairs used for cleaning, painting, or grooming.

  2. 02

    verb

    To touch lightly or clean with a brush.

Examples

  • Brush off the dust from your shoes.

  • He dipped the brush into the paint.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.

  2. The act of brushing something.

  3. An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

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In context

  • You'd better brush up on your English if you 're going to go to America.

  • She gave her hair a quick brush.

  • We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusgo-.