Bush vs Mobile - What's the difference?
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(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= (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially'' a woman's; ''loosely , a woman's vulva.
* 1749 , (John Cleland), Memoirs Of Fanny Hill ,
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 787:
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)
(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
* 1726 , '', 1839, Samuel Johnson (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ,
To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
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 ,
#* 1899 , , (Dot and the Kangaroo) ,
#* 2000 , Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson, The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood ,
# (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.
The noun "bush", used attributively.
(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
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.
To furnish with a bush or lining.
Capable of being moved.
By agency of mobile phones.
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, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
* Hawthorne
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
(biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().
A mobile phone ().
Something that can move.
As nouns the difference between bush and mobile
is that bush is (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 or bush can be (archaic) a tavern or wine merchant or bush can be rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated or bush can be (baseball) amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior" or bush can be a thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing) while mobile is a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().As adjectives the difference between bush and mobile
is that bush is the noun "bush", used attributively or bush can be (colloquial) not skilled; not professional; not major league while mobile is capable of being moved.As a verb bush
is to branch thickly in the manner of a bush or bush can be to furnish with a bush or lining.As an adverb bush
is (australia) towards the direction of the outback.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)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.}}
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.
- But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush .
- If it be true that good wine needs no bush , 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
Synonyms
* (category of woody plant) shrub * See alsoDerived 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 * bushyVerb
(es)page 404,
- Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.
- to bush peas
- 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)Derived terms
* good wine needs no bushEtymology 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
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.
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0900681h,
- Little Dot had lost her way in the bush .
page 16,
- The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.
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 bushSee also
* backblock, outback * bushman (not derived from bush but separately derived from cognate Dutch)Adjective
(-)- The bush' vote; '''bush''' party; '''bush''' tucker; '''bush''' aristocracy; ' bush tea
Adverb
(-)- On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
Etymology 4
Adjective
(en adjective)- They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush .
Noun
(es)- 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)- (Farrow)
Verb
- to bush a pivot hole
Anagrams
* Australian English ----mobile
English
(wikipedia mobile)Adjective
(en adjective)citation
- Mercury is a mobile liquid.
- (Testament of Love)
- the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
- mobile features