A dense growth of bushes.

synoniemen: brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket.

Roget 556: painting; depicting; drawing etc. v.; design; perspective, sciagraphy^†, skiagraphy^†; chiaroscuro etc. (light) 420; composition; treatment.    historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting; landscape painting, marine painting; still life, flower painting, scene painting; scenography^†.    school, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture; ornamental art etc. 847.    monochrome, polychrome; grisaille [Fr.].    pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint etc. (coloring matter) 428; watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish etc. 356.1, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry.    photography, heliography, color photography; sun painting; graphics, computer graphics.    picture, painting, piece [Fr.], tableau, canvas; oil painting &c.; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil drawing &c., water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study.    photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype^†, calotype^†, heliotype^†; negative, positive; print, glossy print, matte print; enlargement, reduction, life-size print; instant photo, Polaroid photo.    technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome; Polaroid.    portrait etc. (representation) 554; whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile.    landscape, seapiece^†; view, scene, prospect; panorama, diorama; still life.    picture gallery, exhibit; studio, atelier; pinacotheca^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 256: roughness etc. adj.; tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity^†, salebrosity^†, corrugation, nodosity^†; arborescence^† etc. 242; pilosity^†.    brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher^†; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock.    plumage, plumosity^†; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee.    wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus^†, moss, bur; fluff.    knot (convolution) 248.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: bosage, bosje, bosschage, haagbos, hakhoutbosje, kreupelbosje, struikgewas, struweel
Pools: gąszcz, gąszcza, gęstwa, gęstwina

An implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle.

Nederlands: borstel, kwast, tandenborstel, stoffer

Momentary contact.

synoniem: light touch.

Conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor.

Nederlands: borstel
Pools: szczotka

A bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox).

Pools: kita

A minor short-term fight.

synoniemen: clash, encounter, skirmish.

Roget 720: contention, strife; contest, contestation^†; struggle; belligerency; opposition etc. 708.    controversy, polemics; debate etc. (discussion) 476; war of words, logomachy^†, litigation; paper war; high words etc. (quarrel) 713; sparring etc. v.. competition, rivalry; corrivalry^†, corrivalship^†, agonism^†, concours^†, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy^†, gymkhana^†; boat race, torpids^†.    wrestling, greco-roman wrestling; pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense; spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship^†, gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti^†, sumo; athletics, athletic sports; games of skill etc. 840.    shindy^†; fracas etc. (discord) 713; clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray, affrayment^†; velitation^†; colluctation^†, luctation^†; brabble^†, brigue^†, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash^†, bushfighting^†.    free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight.    conflict, skirmish; rencounter^†, encounter; rencontre^†, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting [Mediev.]; tournay^†, list; pitched battle.    death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, Armageddon^†.    hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war.    naval engagement, naumachia^†, sea fight.    duel, duello [It]; single combat, monomachy^†, satisfaction, passage d'armes [Fr.], passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting, digladiation^†; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms etc. (warfare) 722.    pugnacity; combativeness etc. adj.; bone of contention etc. 713.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: schermutseling
Pools: potyczka, utarczka

The act of brushing your teeth:
— The dentist recommended two brushes a day.

synoniem: brushing.

Nederlands: poetsen
Pools: szczotkowanie

The act of brushing your hair:
— He gave his hair a quick brush.

synoniem: brushing.

Contact with something dangerous or undesirable.

Rub with a brush, or as if with a brush.

Touch lightly and briefly.

Clean with a brush.

Sweep across or over:
— Her long skirt brushed the floor.

synoniem: sweep.

Roget 274: move quickly, trip, fisk^†; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle^†; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush etc. (be violent) 173; dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.    hurry etc. (hasten) 684; accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.    keep up with, keep pace with; outstrip etc. 303; outmarch^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 652: be clean, render clean etc. adj.; clean, cleanse; mundify^†, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.    wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge^†, deterge^†; decrassify^†; clear, purify; depurate^†, despumate^†, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate [Chem], lixiviate^†, edulcorate^†, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain.    disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate.    sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.    rout out, clear out, sweep out &c.; make a clean sweep of.    ... meer laten zien

Remove with or as if with a brush.

Cover by brushing.