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Bristle vs Brushbar - What's the difference?

bristle | brushbar |

As a proper noun bristle

is (slang|humorous) bristol, england (in imitation of the local dialect).

As a noun brushbar is

a rotating bar with brushlike bristles, used in certain cleaning appliances.

bristle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stiff or coarse hair.
  • The hair or straws that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.

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    Verb

    (bristl)
  • To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • His hair did bristle upon his head.
  • To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
  • * Thackeray
    • the hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets
  • * Macaulay
    • ports bristling with thousands of masts
  • To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty / Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • To fix a bristle to.
    • to bristle a thread

    Derived terms

    * bristling

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    brushbar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rotating bar with brushlike bristles, used in certain cleaning appliances.
  • * 1999 , "Steve Wiseman", Vacuum Cleaners'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''cam.misc )
    • It's all pretty simple. If you want to get hairs out of a carpet, you need a whirling brushbar of death. No amount of suck will do it.
  • * 2005 , Popular Mechanics (volume 182, number 3, March 2005)
    • A string had caught in the brushbar and shut down the belt drive. This was quickly fixed and we hosed up the rest of the filth.
  • * 2005 , Eureka: Innovative Engineering Design?
    • Innovations include placing the main motor inside the ball, using a second motor to drive the brushbar through gears, and a mechanism to drop down wheels...

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