Brusheth vs Rusheth - What's the difference?
brusheth | rusheth |
(archaic) (brush)
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.
*{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
, 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.
(archaic) (rush)
Any of several stiff aquatic or marsh plants of the genus Juncus , having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers.
The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
The merest trifle; a straw.
* (rfdate) (Arbuthnot)
A sudden forward motion.
* Sir H. Wotton
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 A surge.
General haste.
A rapid, noisy flow.
(military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
(contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
A rusher; a lineman.
A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
(US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities]] and [[sorority, sororities.
(US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
(croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
* (Thomas Sprat) (1635–1730)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=
, volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (label) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= To dribble rapidly.
To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
(label) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
To make a swift or sudden attack.
(label) To swiftly attach to without warning.
(label) To transport or carry quickly.
To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between brusheth and rusheth
is that brusheth is (archaic) (brush) while rusheth is (archaic) (rush).As verbs the difference between brusheth and rusheth
is that brusheth is (archaic) (brush) while rusheth is (archaic) (rush).brusheth
English
Verb
(head)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.}}
Russell Brand and the GQ awards:'', ''The Guardian , 13 September:'It's amazing how absurd it seems'
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 wordsrusheth
English
Verb
(head)rush
English
(wikipedia rush)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rusch, risch, from (etyl) rysc, risc, from (etyl) ).Noun
(rushes)- John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush .
Etymology 2
Perhaps from (etyl) ruschen, . More at (l). (etymology note) An alternative etymology traces rush'' via (etyl) . Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of (etyl) russher, , although connection to the same (etyl) root is also possible. More at ''rouse .Noun
(rushes)- A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush , severed him from the duke.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.
- the center rush , whose place is in the center of the rush line
Derived terms
* adrenalin rush * bum's rush * rush goalie * rush hour * rush job * sugar rushVerb
(es)- Theynever think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers.
John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
- Like to an entered tide, they all rush by.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(-)- a rush job