Meaning

15 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Bürste, (paint-) Pinsel

    щёткаščótka, кистьkistʹ

    щі́ткаščítka, пе́нзельpénzelʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of brushing something.

    She gave her hair a quick brush.

    the act of brushing your hair

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

    Bürste

    щёткаščótka

    conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

  4. (countable, uncountable)A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.

  5. (uncountable)Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.

    Busch, Gebüsch, Gestrüpp

    кустkust, куста́рникkustárnik

  6. (countable, uncountable)A short, possibly recurrent encounter or experience.

    brush with death

    He has had brushes with communism from time to time.

    столкновениеstolknovenije

  7. (countable, uncountable)The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.

    Lunte, Standarte

    труба́trubá

    a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)

  8. (countable, uncountable)A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

  9. (countable, uncountable)An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.

  10. (countable, uncountable)An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.

  11. (countable, uncountable)A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.

    to download brushes for Photoshop

  12. (countable, uncountable)In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.

Examples

725 sentences
  1. I have to brush my teeth.

    Мушу почистити зуби. — marko

    ruЯ должен почистить зубы. — ae5s

    deIch muss mir die Zähne putzen. — MUIRIEL

  2. I'd like to brush my teeth.

    Я хотів би почистити зуби. — deniko

    ruЯ бы хотел почистить зубы. — odexed

    deIch möchte mir die Zähne putzen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Don't forget to brush your teeth.

    Не забудь почистити зуби. — shanghainese

    ruНе забудь почистить зубы. — Olya

    deVergiß nicht, dir die Zähne zu putzen! — Waldelfe

  4. I brush my teeth twice a day.

    Я чищу зуби двічі на день. — Internecivus

    ruЯ чищу зубы два раза в день. — marafon

    deIch putze mir zweimal am Tag die Zähne. — MUIRIEL

  5. Brush your teeth after each meal.

    Чисти зуби після кожного прийому їжі. — aandrusiak

    ruЧисти зубы после каждого приема пищи. — sharptoothed

    dePutze deine Zähne nach jeder Mahlzeit. — MUIRIEL

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
implement:
Русский
By meaning 4
implement:
wild vegetation:
short experience:
furry tail:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
implement:
wild vegetation:
furry tail:

Origin

From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar L

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-.

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Forms

plural: brushes
Singularbrush
Pluralbrushes

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

114 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • brush my teeth
  • brush your teeth
  • brush his teeth
  • brushing her hair
  • to brush my
  • brushed the snow
  • brush your hair
  • forget to brush
  • should brush your
  • go brush your
  • to brush his
  • was brushing her

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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