What is the difference between brush and bush?

In archaic terms the difference between brush and bush

is that brush is a short contest, or trial, of speed while bush is a tavern or wine merchant.

As nouns the difference between brush and bush

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 bush is a woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

As verbs the difference between brush and bush

is that brush is to clean with a brush while bush is to branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

As an adjective bush is

the noun "bush", used attributively.

As an adverb bush is

towards the direction of the outback.

As a proper noun Bush is

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brush

English

Noun

(es)

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.

*(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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A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.

*2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''', ''The Guardian , 13 September:

*: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.

*: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.

Verb

To clean with a brush.

Brush your teeth.

To untangle or arrange with a brush.

Brush your hair.

To apply with a brush.

Brush the paint onto the walls.

To remove with a sweeping motion.

Brush the flour off your clothes.

* Shakespeare

As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed / With raven's feather from unwholesome fen.

To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.

Her scarf brushed his skin.

* Fairfax

Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.

* Milton

Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings.

* 1990 October 28, , Warner Bros.

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 brush

Anagrams

* shrub 1000 English basic words

bush

English

(wikipedia bush)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) busch, busshe, from (etyl) busc, , (etyl) bois and buisson, (etyl) bosco and boscaglia, (etyl) bosque, (etyl) bosque) derive from the Germanic. The sense 'pubic hair' was first attested in 1745.

Noun

(es)

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category .

* , chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes . Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}

(slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially'' a woman's; ''loosely , a woman's vulva.

* 1749 , (John Cleland), Memoirs Of Fanny Hill , Gutenberg eBook #25305,

As he stood on one side, unbuttoning his waistcoat and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greasy landscape lay fairly open to my view; a wide open mouthed gap, overshaded with a grizzly bush , seemed held out like a beggar?s wallet for its provision.

* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 787:

But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush .

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

* (William Shakespeare)

If it be true that good wine needs no bush , 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Synonyms

* (category of woody plant) shrub * See also

Derived terms

* a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush * beat about the bush/beat around the bush * bush airline * bush fire * bush frog * bushlike * bushly * bush telegraph * bushy

Verb

(es)

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

* 1726 , '', 1839, Samuel Johnson (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. , page 404,

Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

to bush peas

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

to bush''' a piece of land; to '''bush seeds into the ground

Etymology 2

From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places.

Noun

(es)

(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

Derived terms

* good wine needs no bush

Etymology 3

From (etyl) bosch'' (modern ''bos'') ("''wood, forest "), first appearing in the Dutch colonies to designate an uncleared district of a colony, and thence adopted in British colonies as bush.

Noun

Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.

# (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely , areas of natural flora even within conurbations.

#* 1894 , (Henry Lawson), We Called Him “Ally” for Short'', ''Short Stories in Prose and Verse , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607911,

I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth.

#* 1899 , , (Dot and the Kangaroo) , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0900681h,

Little Dot had lost her way in the bush .

#* 2000 , Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson, The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood , page 16,

The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.

# (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.

# (Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.

(Canadian) A woodlot or on a farm.

Derived terms

* Alaskan bush * bush ague * bushbaby * bush aircraft * bush airline * bush bread * bush buggy * bush camp * bush clearing * bush coat * bush company * bush country * bush cowboy * bushcraft * bushcraft * bush-crew * bushed * bush fever * bush fire * bush flier, bush flyer * bush flying * bush-French * bush gang * bush horse * bush Indian * bushland * bush lawyer * bush lore * bush lot * bush mail * (Canadian) bushman * bushmark * bush meat, bushmeat * bush partridge * bush party * bush people * bush pilot * bush plane * bush-pop * bush-popper * bush rabbit * bush ranch * bush ranching * bush-range * bushranger, bush-ranger * bush rat * bush road * bush-rover * bush-runner * bush searcher * bush tavern * bush tea * bush trail * bush tucker * bush week * bushwhack * bushwhacker * bushwhacking * bush-whisky * bushwork * bushworker * go bush * sugar bush * take to the bush

Adjective

(-)

The noun "bush", used attributively.

The bush' vote; '''bush''' party; '''bush''' tucker; '''bush''' aristocracy; ' bush tea

Adverb

(-)

(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.

Etymology 4

Adjective

(en adjective)

(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush .

Noun

(es)

(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

The way that pitcher showed up the batter after the strikeout was bush .

Etymology 5

From (etyl) busse 'box; wheel bushing', from (etyl) .

Noun

(es)

A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).

A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

(Farrow)

Verb

To furnish with a bush or lining.

to bush a pivot hole

Anagrams

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