(n.) An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
(n.) The bushy tail of a fox.
(n.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
(n.) Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
(n.) A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
(n.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.
(n.) The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.
(n.) A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
(n.) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
(n.) To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.
(n.) To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.
(n.) To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.
(v. i.) To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(3) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(4) The teeth of 13 dental nurse students were brushed by a dental hygienist.
(5) All inhibitors had no effect on L-Ala uptake into brush-border membrane vesicles in presence of Na+ gradient.
(6) At 4 degrees C or after fixation, anti-renal tubular brush border vesicle (BBV) IgG bound diffusely to the surface of GEC and to coated pits.
(7) These results show that tunicamycin, an inhibitor of glycosylation, significantly affected the expression of brush border membrane glycoproteins, suggesting that both polypeptide synthesis and degradation of these proteins may be altered in the presence of this drug.
(8) From these results it is suggested that the lipid peroxidation of the brush-border membranes by addition of dithiothreitol plus Fe2+ is sensitively changed with change in ionic strength.
(9) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(10) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
(11) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(12) The aim of this study was to identify and purify the Na+-H+ exchanger from rabbit renal brush border membranes by use of affinity chromatography.
(13) The effect of zinc on sodium coupled glucose uptake was studied in pig intestinal brush border membrane vesicles.
(14) In purified jejunal brush-border membranes both alkaline phosphatase and sucrase activities are increased at 4 or 7 weeks but especially at 13 weeks of hypertension.
(15) The device was composed of a standard biopsy brush, protected by a single catheter and occluded with an agar plug.
(16) The method is based on brushing of copper surface with the studied paste in a device of own design, followed by chemical analysis of copper content in the mass after brushing.
(17) Plaque evaluations and brushing procedures were performed as in Visit 1 of the study.
(18) However, unlike rodent kidney, we were unable to detect a comparable HMWgp in extracts of human kidney on SDS-PA gels and found no cross-reactive material on Western blots of human brush border membrane proteins.
(19) The protein is localized in the brush border of primary and secondary epithelium.
(20) For now, Shimizu will not allow the children in her care to be interviewed and brushes off praise for her selflessness.
Paint
Definition:
(v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.
(v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.
(v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
(v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.
(v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.
(v. t.) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
(n.) A pigment or coloring substance.
(n.) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.
(n.) A cosmetic; rouge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
(3) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
(4) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(5) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(6) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
(7) These results indicate that, following a single painting of DNFB onto Langerhans cell-deficient skin, the numbers of Lyt2+ cells do not change significantly, but do change functionally.
(8) Case mothers were more likely to report occupational exposure to metals (odds ratio [OR] = 8.0, P = 0.01), petroleum products (OR = 3.7, P = 0.03), and paints or pigments (OR = 3.7, P = 0.05).
(9) PT painting resulted in rather higher sensitivity with Triton X-100 than with sodium lauryl sulphate.
(10) On the one hand, he has used it as an opportunity to paint Ukip as demonised by a media in hock to the politically correct establishment.
(11) A Landolt ring (diameter 43.5 cm; contrast 1:1.5) served as a test stimulus; it was painted on a disc 87 cm in diameter that could be rotated in steps of 45 degrees.
(12) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(13) She said it was hard to tell whether the paintings were stolen to order or would be offered on the black market, but added that they would be easy to transport out of Switzerland.
(14) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(16) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
(17) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
(18) Trauma to the hand caused by injection of paint or grease solvents results in tissue destruction and later necrosis and fibrosis.
(19) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(20) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.