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hairbrush
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paint
whisk
brush off
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graze
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scrape
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bushwhack
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verb
- To apply with a brush.
- To clean with a brush.
- To untangle or arrange with a brush.
- To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
- To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
- To remove with a sweeping motion.
noun
- The act of brushing something.
- An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
- 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.
- A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- 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.
- Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
verb
verb
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- To be diligent and penurious
- To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
adj
noun
- One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.
- One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant
- Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- One who scrubs.
- One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- A cancellation.
- A worn-out brush.
- One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- Clothing worn while performing surgery.
- Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
verb
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
verb
- To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
- To direct a radar beam toward.
- To apply paint to.
- To create (an image) with paints.
- To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
- To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
- To depict or portray.
- To practise the art of painting pictures.
- To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
- To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
noun
- Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
- A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
- The free-throw lane, construed with the.
- A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
- Paintballs.
- Tattoo work.
- The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
- Makeup.
- A face card (king, queen, or jack).
noun
noun
- A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
- A quick, light sweeping motion.
- A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
- A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
- A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
- A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
verb
verb
- To comb; to make orderly.
- To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- To trim up, as trees.
- To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- To flatter.
- To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers.
- To show off, posture, or smarm.
- To pin; fasten.
noun
verb
verb
- To cut or drill through the core of (something).
- To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
- To extract a sample with a drill.
noun
- A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
- The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
- The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
- A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
- An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
- A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
- A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
- The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
- Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
- The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
- An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
- The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
- A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
- The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
- The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
- The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
- A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
- The center or inner part of a space or area.
- The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
- The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
- A miner's underground working time or shift.
- The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
adj
noun
noun
- A paintbrush.
- A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.
- A family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.
- An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
verb
verb
- To scrape together
- To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
- To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
- To make a monk of (a person).
noun
- A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
- A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
- A mask that covers the majority of the head.
- A monk.
- A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
- A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
- A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
- A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
adj
verb
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
verb
- To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
- To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
- To become bushy (often used with up).
- To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
- To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
adv
adj
noun
- 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.
- The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
- 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.
- Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
- 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.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
verb
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
noun
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A try, an attempt.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
noun
noun
- The direction of a rake-vein.
- A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
- An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
- A frame for composing type.
adj
- Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
- Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause, or reason.
- Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
- Being out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected.
- Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
- Of or relating to probability distribution.
- Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
noun
- A brush or tool used for such painting.
- An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
- A type of railroad car that carries grain.
- A knife for taking the hair off skins.
- One who grains (paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc).
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