Brush vs Stroke - What's the difference?
brush | stroke | Synonyms |
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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, chapter=2, title= A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
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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.
An act of (gloss, moving one's hand over a surface).
A blow or hit.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xix. 5
* Francis Bacon
A single movement with a tool.
# (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club.
# (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
# (rowing) The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull.
# (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
# A thrust of a piston.
One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort.
A line drawn with a pen or other writing implement.
# (hence, British) The symbol .
# (linguistics) A line of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character.
The time when a clock strikes.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=John Percy, work=the Telegraph
, title= (swimming) A style, a single movement within a style.
* , chapter=7
, title= (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
(obsolete) A sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; any sudden, severe affliction or calamity.
* Harte
(rowing) The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat.
(rowing) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided.
(professional wrestling) Backstage influence.
(squash) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
(sciences) An individual discharge of lightning.
(obsolete) The result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
* Bible, Isa. xxx. 26
An addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch.
A throb or beat, as of the heart.
(obsolete) Power; influence.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Dryden
(obsolete) appetite
To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.
* Dryden
(cricket) To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion.
(masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to.
To row the stroke oar of.
As nouns the difference between brush and stroke
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 stroke is an act of stroking moving one's hand over a surface.As verbs the difference between brush and stroke
is that brush is to clean with a brush while stroke is to move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction.brush
English
Noun
(es)Internal Combustion, passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.}}
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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 wordsstroke
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia stroke) (en noun)- His hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree.
- He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke .
- the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or of an oar in rowing
- the stroke of a skater, swimmer, etc.
- a stroke''' of genius; a '''stroke''' of business; a master '''stroke of policy
Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report, passage=Already guarding a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Blackpool inched further ahead when Stephen Dobbie scored from an acute angle on the stroke of half-time. The game appeared to be completely beyond Birmingham’s reach three minutes into the second period when Matt Phillips reacted quickly to bundle the ball past Colin Doyle and off a post.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
- a stroke''' of apoplexy; the '''stroke of death
- At this one stroke the man looked dead in law.
- A flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes . If they are separated by enough time for the eye to distinguish them, the lightning will appear to flicker.
- in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound
- to give some finishing strokes to an essay
- (Addison)
- (Tennyson)
- where money beareth all the stroke
- He has a great stroke with the reader.
- (Jonathan Swift)
Synonyms
* caress * (blow) blow, hit, beat ** (act of striking with a weapon) blow * (single movement with a tool) ** (in golf) ** (in tennis) ** (in rowing) ** (in cricket) shot ** (thrust of a piston) push, thrust * (made with a pen) stroke of the pen ** (made with a brush) brushstroke ** (symbol) forward slash (in computing), shilling sign (qualifier), slant, slash (especially in computing), solidus, virgule * (time when a clock strikes) hour * (particular style of swimming) * (in medical sense) cerebrovascular accident, CVA * (in wrestling)Derived terms
* at a stroke * at one stroke * backstroke * breaststroke * broad strokes * brushstroke * butterfly stroke * different strokes for different folks * down to the short strokes * four-stroke engine * government stroke * keystroke * masterstroke * multistroke * short strokes * stroke of genius * stroke of luck * stroke of work * stroke order * two-stroke engine * umstrokeEtymology 2
From (etyl) stroken, straken, from (etyl) .Verb
(strok)- He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, / He stroked her cheeks.
- to stroke a boat
