brush

Etymology


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Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) The act of brushing something.
 * 3) A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
 * 4) A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
 * 5)  Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
 * 6) * 1906, Jack London, Before Adam, chapter 12:
 * 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.
 * 1) A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
 * 2) The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
 * 3)  A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
 * 4)  A short contest, or trial, of speed.
 * 5) * 1860,,  (originally published in Cornhill Magazine
 * Mark and Lord Lufton had been boys together, and his lordship knew that Mark in his heart would enjoy a brush across the country quite as well as he himself.
 * 1)  An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
 * 2)  An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
 * 3)  A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
 * 4)  In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
 * 5)  The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
 * 6)  Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
 * 1) * 1860,,  (originally published in Cornhill Magazine
 * Mark and Lord Lufton had been boys together, and his lordship knew that Mark in his heart would enjoy a brush across the country quite as well as he himself.
 * 1)  An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
 * 2)  An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
 * 3)  A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
 * 4)  In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
 * 5)  The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
 * 6)  Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
 * 1)  In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
 * 2)  The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
 * 3)  Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: borsel ,
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: فُرْشَاة
 * Gulf Arabic: فرشة
 * Hijazi Arabic: فُرْشة
 * Armenian:, for painting
 * Assamese: তুলি, বুৰুজ, ব্ৰাচ
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟ̰ܘܿܬܩܵܐ
 * Azerbaijani:, şotka
 * Bavarian: Bembsl
 * Belarusian: шчо́тка, пэ́ндзаль
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: burus
 * Chechen: ехк
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 刷
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: painting,  painting,  cleaning
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ; paint- verfborstel; hair- haarborstel; tooth- tandenborstel
 * Esperanto: broso
 * Estonian:, pintsel for painting
 * Faroese: bust
 * Finnish:,  ; ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, brus, brusa, piaxá,
 * Georgian: ჯაგრისი,, ყალამი
 * German: ; paint-
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic: børsti
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:, ; paint-
 * Icelandic: paint- hair-,  ("tooth-")
 * Ido: painting,  cleaning
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: harja, šotka
 * Ingush: ехк
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: қылшақ, щетка
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 브러시
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: فرچە
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: furcha
 * Lao: ຟອຍ, ຟອຽ
 * Latgalian: cleaning suseklis, paint- tepeklis
 * Latin: pēnicillum
 * Latvian:, paint- ota
 * Lithuanian:, for painting teptukas
 * Luxembourgish: Biischt
 * Macedonian: четка
 * Malay: berus
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Navajo: bee alzhóhí, béʼézhóóʼ, ééʼ bee yilzhóhí , bee adleeshí , ké bee yilzhóhí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ottoman Turkish: فرچه
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Barscht
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: for painting,  for hair or cleanliness,
 * Romanian: ; paint-
 * Russian:, for painting
 * Scottish Gaelic: sguab
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: четка, четкица, кист, кичица
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Sicilian: pinzeḍḍu
 * Slovak: kefa, kefka, štetec, štetka
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili: burashi,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: sipilyo, pinsel
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: (for painting)
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཕག་འདོ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: çotga
 * Ukrainian: щі́тка, пе́нзель
 * Urdu: برش
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:, svipül, paint , wire dratakef, frotakef, glimükamakef, shoe jukikef, lavädakef, lekluinakef, leröbakef, miotakef, tooth , veluvakef, hair


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Ingrian: kistocka
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 붓,
 * Manchu: ᡶᡳ
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠷ
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: bascullo
 * German:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: четкица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kefa
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: четкане
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: harjaus
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: הברשה
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ブラシがけ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: escovada, escovamento, escovadela,
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sguabadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: četkanje
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pöheikkö,, pusikko
 * Galician: mato, matogueira,, fananco, touceira, bramal, mufedo, guelmo,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Maori: heu, heuheu
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ;
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Italian: ;
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian: опашка
 * Finnish: pörröhäntä
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Uzbek:, choʻtkalash

Verb

 * 1)  To clean with a brush.
 * 2)  To untangle or arrange with a brush.
 * 3)  To apply with a brush.
 * 4)  To remove with a sweeping motion.
 * 5)  To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
 * 6)  To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
 * 1)  To remove with a sweeping motion.
 * 2)  To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
 * 3)  To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
 * 1)  To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
 * 2)  To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
 * 1)  To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
 * 1)  To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
 * 1)  To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
 * 1)  To clean one's teeth by brushing them.

Translations

 * Ainu: シルシル
 * Arabic: فَرَشَ
 * Bavarian: bembsln
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: четкам
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: borstelen; poetsen; vegen, brushing teeth
 * Esperanto: brosi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: salippoq
 * Hebrew: הבריש
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: skoba
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: فرچە کردن
 * Malay: memberus
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ottoman Turkish: فرچه‌لامق
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, (щёткой)
 * Scottish Gaelic: sguab
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, izčetkati
 * Slovak: vykefovať, kefovať, vyčistiť, čistiť
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Uzbek: ,


 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: сресвам с четка
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: šotkata
 * Italian:, spazzolarsi
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: شانە کردن
 * Malay: menyikat
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:, učesať
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ;
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian: spennellare
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: natrieť, natierať
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greenlandic: børsterpaa
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sguab
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: utrieť, utierať
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:, van de tafel vegen
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: taitai
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1)  bro (as a term of address)