Bristle vs Brushmark - What's the difference?
bristle | brushmark |
A stiff or coarse hair.
The hair or straws that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
* Sir Walter Scott
To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
* Thackeray
* Macaulay
To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
* Shakespeare
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As nouns the difference between bristle and brushmark
is that bristle is a stiff or coarse hair while brushmark is a visible mark on a painted surface left by the bristles of a paintbrush.As a verb bristle
is to rise or stand erect, like bristles.As a proper noun Bristle
is bristol, England (in imitation of the local dialect.bristle
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*Verb
(bristl)- His hair did bristle upon his head.
- the hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets
- ports bristling with thousands of masts
- Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty / Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
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 bristle a thread