(n.) A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
(n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
(n.) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
(n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
(n.) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
(v. i.) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
(v. t.) To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
(v. t.) To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
(n.) A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.
(n.) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
(v. t.) To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(2) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
(3) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(4) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
(5) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(6) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
(7) For Bush Sr, the dilemma is all the more agonising as some of the White House advisers he now criticises are former employees he bequeathed to his son.
(8) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
(9) George Bush, who won Ohio narrowly last time, has been there almost 20 times in the past four years and Vice-President Cheney is on his way this week.
(10) Iowa (10pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.0pt 2008 result: Obama won by 9.4pt 2004 result: Bush won by 0.7pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Polk (+5.1), Scott (+5.0), Woodbury (-10.0) This state is where the primary season begins, and it likes to keep Americans guessing.
(11) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
(12) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
(13) The heart of the jungle bush quail is richly innervated.
(14) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
(15) Peter Schweizer – whose book scrutinizing donations to the Clinton Foundation has earned sharp rebukes from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and liberally aligned groups – confirmed on Thursday plans to investigate Bush’s past financial dealings.
(16) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
(17) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(18) I don’t buy any of the horse race stuff,” Bush said Tuesday.
(19) The prospect of prosecutions has already led to rows between the Obama administration and members of the Bush administration led by the former vice-president Dick Cheney, who said CIA morale would be damaged.
(20) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
Buss
Definition:
(n.) A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.
(v. t.) To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.
(n.) A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
Example Sentences:
(1) To assess physiological and psychological states accompanying anabolic-androgenic steroid use, male weight lifters 1) were interviewed regarding their physical training and the patterns and effects of any drug use; 2) completed a written physical and medical history questionnaire, a Profile of Mood States questionnaire, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory; and 3) were physically examined, including a blood sample and urinalysis.
(2) Aggression was measured in terms of number of shocks given, shock intensity, and shock duration in a modified version of the Buss' aggression machine.
(3) If there's one thing this current Lakers squad, mostly assembled by Jerry Buss's son Jim while his father was ailing, has proven, it's that simply acquiring the best available players isn't enough to create a winning team, let alone a championship-caliber one.
(4) Some of these measures appeared to be lifted over the weekend, but as thousands trudged or bussed their way towards Austria and then Germany, the dismal scenes in Hungary will stain one administration’s human rights record – and perhaps the reputation of a nation.
(5) But as with the December vote, independent election monitors and opposition activists presented evidence of widespread falsifications, including ballot stuffing and "carousel voting" – packing vans with voters and bussing them to several polling sites to cast numerous votes.
(6) An experiment was performed to test whether thwarting close to the goal leads to higher levels of frustration and higher levels of aggression than thwarting far from the goal in a slightly modified version of the Buss' "aggression machine."
(7) He has also enlisted in an imaginative scheme, pioneered by the National, in which groups of in-patients are lodged in a specially designed hotel and bussed back each day for treatment.
(8) At one point, a group bussed in by the government smashed plastic chairs and overturned food trays as the campaigners sang and prayed.
(9) Jerry Buss always courted the best players, the big names who could shine in big games, no matter how much money it took to sign them, he transformed cheerleaders into " Lakers Girls " and made the courtisde seats the go-to place for all of the beautiful people to be seen.
(10) They were bussed to a medical centre to undergo treatment, NTV television said.
(11) Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted refugees on Saturday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a rightwing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers.
(12) Three hundred seventy-one male substance-abusing volunteers for drug studies were administered the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory (B-D).
(13) By the time Austria awoke on Saturday the first refugees had arrived, bussed out of the country overnight by Hungarian authorities happy to be rid of them the minute the Austrian and German governments took the momentous decision to throw open their borders.
(14) The volunteer group arrived early, at 3am, and were de-bussed by the coach company who had estimated a 5am time of arrival.
(15) Civilians were being steadily bussed to regime-held west Aleppo on Wednesday, with hundreds more displaced by fighting that has already driven thousands out of their homes in recent weeks.
(16) [LA Lakers owner] Jerry Buss takes money out of his club.
(17) There were reports, too, that Sunni insurgents have attempted to target convoys of Shia volunteers being bussed to the front lines north of the capital.
(18) Another solution suggested by the OFT is limiting services on certain routes to prevent "over bussing" where bus companies deluge a route with vehicles to shut out competitors.
(19) Twelve manipulation tactics were identified through separate factor analyses of two instruments based on different data sources: Charm, Reason, Coercion, Silent Treatment, Debasement, and Regression (replicating Buss et al., 1987), and Responsibility Invocation, Reciprocity, Monetary Reward, Pleasure Induction, Social Comparison, and Hardball (an amalgam of threats, lies, and violence).
(20) Of course, none of these added attractions would have mattered if the team didn't win, but under Buss's direction, the Lakers were one of the most successful franchises not just in the NBA, but in all of professional sports.