Word Finder - brush

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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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The act of brushing something.

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She gave her hair a quick brush.

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

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A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.

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• corposant

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Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees.

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A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.

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He has had brushes with communism from time to time.

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The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.

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A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

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A short contest, or trial, of speed.

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An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.

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An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.

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A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.

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donwloading brushes for Photoshop

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In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.

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The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.

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(North Wisconsin) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.

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To clean with a brush.

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Brush your teeth.

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To untangle or arrange with a brush.

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Brush your hair.

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To apply with a brush.

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Brush the paint onto the walls.

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To remove with a sweeping motion.

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Brush the flour off your clothes.

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To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.

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Her scarf brushed his skin.

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To clean one's teeth by brushing them.

Something moved in the brush not far away and she froze.

She stayed in the brush beside the trail, as she had done in her dream.

He tried to brush it off, but it remained there.

Go brush your teeth - and whatever else you need to do.

Would you just brush it off?

When I returned I felt a big cat brush past me as I opened the door.

She stumbled up and crossed to her bathroom to brush her teeth before going out to breakfast.

Twenty acres and they were always at the fence line, poking their heads through to eat the brush on the other side.

Only low brush could grow in so small a space... no trees to prevent a vehicle from plunging into the forested mountain ranges below and beyond.

This Gruber fellow tossed me out of the house like a Fuller Brush Jehovah Witness selling life insurance.

Look at the way the brush is beat down.

They reached an open place in the brush where Diablo stood hip-shod, his eyes half closed - as if all hell wasn't getting ready to burst loose.

They'd traveled several hundred yards when Dean saw it, nearly covered by brush and invisible from all but a few feet away.

Something big plunged away through the brush and Alex swore under his breath.

Lisa drew further back into the brush as the car drove by.

Next to a small toiletry bag was a brush, hair clip, and scrunchie.

The branches of the trees slithered overhead while brush and bramble scampered out of his way.

He snatched her upper arms and pushed her against the wall, his body close enough for their chests to brush when either breathed in.

His face and neck suffered severe burns while his right side looked as though a Brillo brush had been taken to it.

He looked for signs anyone had walked through the brush and branches, pausing at intervals to squat and look at his surroundings from a different angle.

And perhaps at evening I see the hunters returning with a single brush trailing from their sleigh for a trophy, seeking their inn.

But Napoleon came and swept him aside, unconscious of his existence, as he might brush a chip from his path, and his Bald Hills and his whole life fell to pieces.

If you hadn't sold off all the farm equipment, you could have kept it brush hogged.

No brush grew within three feet of the fence.

Beyond the pond was a vivid green line of brush and trees, bordering the creek.

Alternatively you could use an old clarinet mop - one of those brush things on a length of twisted wire.

Alex lifted the rifle and examined the brush around them carefully.

The late spring sun had finally fought its way out of the white haze and was slipping down in the west, painting the countryside in yellow brush strokes.

Suddenly a rabbit darted from the brush directly in their path.

Replacing the brush, she turned away.

Without warning, a peccary and her two babies burst from the brush and darted immediately in front of Ed.

She was remembering the view of the creek from the bridge - and the brush choking its banks.

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Brush Key gets its name because Dutch engineers used brushwood to divert the mouth of the river out to sea.

Use a softer brush than you might use on an adult cat, and brush softly while he's sitting in your lap.

I was told by my vet that one out of three cats suffer a forl at some point in their lives, so all the more reason for you to try to start when your cat is young, and brush his or her teeth a minimum of at least two times a week.

You do not want very much paint on the brush.

She would put her goats in there and let them clear out the brush.

She scrambled and stumbled, before plunging back into the brush.

He spoke over his shoulder as he rode into the brush.

Back-tracking the elk through the brush wasn't so difficult, but trying to move through the brush on horseback wasn't a simple thing.

The road gradually narrowed and climbed through hills choked with brush and huge oak trees.

Brush grew close to the drive, but it was obvious that someone had mown a swath down either side of the drive not long ago.

The long drive ended abruptly as the brush cleared at the cabin.

Brush crackled near the edge of the forest and then a deer leaped into the open.

All this brush right next to the house gives them a place to hide.

You need to have someone brush hog it all down.

It'll get all the brush and even some small trees.

She stepped off the porch and studied the brush.

Megan immediately recognized the shiny blue mustang when it emerged from the brush that bordered the drive.