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bush | book |

As a proper noun bush

is .

As a noun book is

book.

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
    See also
    * backblock, outback * bushman (not derived from bush but separately derived from cognate Dutch)

    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

    * Australian English ----

    book

    English

    (wikipedia book)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates)Cognate with (etyl) (m), . The sense development of beech'' to ''book'' is explained by the fact that smooth gray beech bark was commonly used as bookfell.J.P. Mallory, ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. "beech" (London: Fitroy-Dearborn, 1997), 58.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
  • She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
    He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book .
  • A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets.
  • I have three copies of his first book .
  • A major division of a long work.
  • Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
    Many readers find the first book of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' to be confusing.
  • A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
  • I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
  • A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
  • a book of stamps
    a book of raffle tickets
  • The script of a musical.
  • (usually, in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
  • A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
  • (legal) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
  • (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
  • (poker slang) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) [http://www.poker1.com/mcu/pokerdictionary/mculib_dictionary_info.asp The Official Dictionary of Poker]. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
  • (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
  • (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
  • , date=March 2 , author=Andy Campbell , title=Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers , work=BBC , url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9409758.stm , page= , passage=Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close.}}
    Synonyms
    * (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material) tome (especially a large book) * booklet * tome, volume * (script of a musical) libretto * (records of the accounts of a business) accounts, records
    Derived terms
    * address book * audiobook * book account * book agent * book-answerer * book award * book-bearer * bookbinder * book-board * book-bosomed * book-bound * book-boy * book-burning * book canvasser * bookcase * book-cloth * book club * book concern * book-crab * book-credit * book-debt * book-edge gilder * book-edge marbler * book end, bookend * bookery * booketeria * book-farmer * book-folder * book-form * bookful * book-ghoul * book-gill * book hand * book-holder * bookhood * book-house * book-hunt * bookie * bookish * bookism * bookjacket * bookkeeper * bookkeeping * book-label * book-lare * book-law * book-lear * book-learned * book-learning * book-length * bookless * booklet * booklike * bookling * booklore * booklouse * book lung * bookly * bookmaker * bookmaking * bookman * bookmark, bookmarker * book match * book-mate * book-mindedness * book mite * bookmobile * book-muslin * book name * book-number * book-oath * book of first entry * book of original entry * Book of the Dead * book of the film * Book of God * book of lading * book of life * book of rates * book of reference * book of the living * book of words * book-packet * book piles * bookplate * book pocket * book-post * book-postage * book-press * book price * book prop * book-rate * book-read * bookrest * book-scorpion * bookseller * bookselling * bookshelf * bookshop * book-shy * booksie, booksy * book-slide * book-society * book-stack * bookstall * book-stamp * bookstand * bookstore * book support * booksy * book-table * book token * book trade * book-tray * book-trough * book type * book value * bookwards * book-ways * bookwise * bookwork * book-world * bookworm * book-wright * booky * bring to book * burn book * by the book * casebook * closed book * close the books * coffee-table book * comic book * cookbook * cookery book * cook the books * copybook * coursebook * e-book * exercise book * the Good Book * guidebook * handbook * hymn book * in anyone's book * in my book * in someone's bad books * in someone's good books * in the books * know like a book * logbook * make book * matchbook * notebook * off the books * on the books * open book * passbook * pension book * phrasebook * pocket-book, pocketbook * prayer book * ration book * reading book * read like a book * reference book * rough book * scrapbook * sketch book * songbook * storybook * suit one's book * take a leaf out of someone's book * talk like a book * textbook * throw the book at * without book * wordbook * workbook * yearbook
    See also
    * incunable * scroll * tome * volume

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reserve (something) for future use.
  • I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night
    I can book tickets for the concert next week.
  • To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
  • They booked that message from the hill
  • (law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
  • The police booked him for driving too fast.
  • (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
  • (slang) To travel very fast.
  • He was really booking , until he passed the speed trap.
  • To record bets as bookmaker.
  • (law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
  • The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
  • (slang) To leave.
  • He was here earlier, but he booked .
    Synonyms
    * (to reserve) reserve * (to write down) make a note of, note down, record, write down * (to travel very fast) bomb (slang), hurtle, rocket (informal), speed, shoot, whiz (informal)
    Derived terms
    * bookable * double-book * overbook * rebook * unbook * underbook

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bake)
  • Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l)

    References

    1000 English basic words ----