brushes: signification et définitions

An implement typically consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, grooming, or applying a liquid. The act of using this implement.

A sweeping stroke of the hand, as in removing something. A light touch in passing; a graze. An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous: a brush with the law; a brush with death.

A bushy tail: the brush of a fox.

A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.

A snub; a brushoff.

To clean, polish, or groom with a brush: brush one's teeth; brush the dog's coat. To apply with a brush: brushed shellac onto the wood. To remove with a brush or with sweeping strokes: brushed dirt from his pants.

To touch lightly in passing; graze against.

To use a brush.

To make sweeping strokes with the hand.

To touch something lightly in moving past.

Dense vegetation consisting of shrubs or small trees. Land covered by such a growth.

Cut or broken branches.