Brush vs Bout - What's the difference?
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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.
A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
The act of brushing something.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:[As leaves] have with one winter's brush / Fell from their boughs.
(lb) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees ().
*1906 , Jack London, :
*:We broke away]] toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they [[catch up, caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.
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*2013 , Russell Brand,
*:The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.
The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
(lb) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
(lb) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
*Cornhill Magazine
*:Let us enjoy a brush across the country.
(lb) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
(lb) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
*2007 , Lee Lanier, Maya Professional Tips and Techniques , p.12:
*:Your bitmap image appears along the painted stroke. If you'd like to permanently create a custom sprite brush , it's fairly easy to adapt an existing MEL file.
(lb) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
(North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in wreathmaking.
To clean with a brush.
To untangle or arrange with a brush.
To apply with a brush.
To remove with a sweeping motion.
* Shakespeare
To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
* Fairfax
* Milton
* 1990 October 28, , Warner Bros.
A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant
(boxing) A boxing match.
(fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
(roller derby) A roller derby match.
A fighting competition.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
(music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
(dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
* 1809 , A Letter to Sir John Sinclair [...] containing a Statement of the System under which a considerable Farm is profitably managed in Hertfordshire. Given at the request of the Board. By Thomas Greg, Esq.'', published in ''The Farmer's Magazine , page 395:
* 1922 , An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor'', published in ''The Commercial Motor , volume 34, published by Temple Press, page 32:
* 1976 , Claude Culpin, Farm Machinery , page 60:
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As nouns the difference between brush and bout
is that brush is 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 while bout is a period of something, usually painful or unpleasant.As verbs the difference between brush and bout
is that brush is to clean with a brush while bout is to contest a bout.As a preposition bout is
about.brush
English
Noun
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Verb
- Brush your teeth.
- Brush your hair.
- Brush the paint onto the walls.
- Brush the flour off your clothes.
- As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed / With raven's feather from unwholesome fen.
- Her scarf brushed his skin.
- Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.
- Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings.
- Maybe you will find a love that you discover accidentally, who falls against you gently as a pickpocket brushes your thigh.
Derived terms
* as daft as a brush * bottle brush, bottlebrush * bristle brush * broad brush * brush aside * brush back, brushback * brush by * brush cut * brush down * brushed * brushless * brushmaker * brush off * brushfire * brush-off * brushtail * brushy * clothesbrush, clothes brush * hairbrush * live over the brush * paintbrush * paint with a broad brush * scrub brush, scrubbing brush * shaving brush * shoe brush * toothbrush * underbrush * wire brushSee also
* broom * combAnagrams
* shrub 1000 English basic wordsbout
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bught, probably from an unrecorded (etyl) variant of . http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bout?s=t See bight, bought.Noun
(en noun)- a bout of drought .
- Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
- The outside bout' of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade [...] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each ' bout .
- It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.
- The last two rounds must be ploughed shallower, and on the last bout the strip left should be one furrow width for a two-furrow plough, two for a three-furrow, and so on. [...]
Etymology 2
Written form of a of "about".Preposition
(English prepositions)- they're talking bout you!
- Maddy is bout to get beat up!