What's the difference between bush and copse?

Bush


Definition:

  • (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.

Copse


Definition:

  • (n.) A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
  • (v. t.) To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
  • (v. t.) To plant and preserve, as a copse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He quoted figures from the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust showing that shoots create or maintain 7,000 hectares of hedgerows and 100,000 hectares of copses.
  • (2) Last year's sites, Herridge's and Broom copses, are home to the silver-washed fritillary ( Argynnis paphia ), white admiral ( Limenitis camilla ) and scarlet tiger moth ( Callimorpha dominula ), and Sulham woods is inhabited by priority conservation species including the white-letter hairstreak ( Satyrium w-album ) and rare moths.
  • (3) In a copse of trees behind the lines, a lone bird sang.
  • (4) Whatever the weather, the beaters would drive the bred pheasants from their woodland home to a prepared unharvested patch of kale, just short of a high wooded copse.
  • (5) The Tarkine’s ancient copses, which form the biggest rainforest in Australia, are cut through with a patchwork of logged forests.
  • (6) It was a landscape sculpted by humans but there were no straight lines, and a kind of alchemy in the mix of fields, hedgerows, copses; it had evolved at a gentle pace, and plants and animals survived alongside our exploitation of its fertility.
  • (7) Now I can walk unencumbered, paper map and compass in my backpack, every so often checking my phone, where a pink arrow moves precisely across that familiar Explorer landscape, not only reassuring me that I am where I thought I was but providing quick answers to questions such as, “Is that distant clump of trees a copse, or hiding a horse-pond?” and “Where exactly should I plunge into this chest-high bracken to find this ruddy burial chamber?” The result is more time to think and daydream as I walk, and an even closer relationship with the place I am exploring.
  • (8) The main 10-hectare (25-acre) area to be treated – Herridge's and Broom copses near Pangbourne – are partly privately owned and and partly public woodland managed by the commission.
  • (9) Once it’s done it’s – pardon my French – buggered for ever.” The beech copses that hugged the hillsides smelt of foxes and were filled with pheasants.
  • (10) Initial Russian reports had said that president's Tupulov plane attempted to land three times - and that on its fourth attempt it clipped a copse of trees between 500 to 700 metres short of the runway, and immediately broke up.
  • (11) And it is quite a journey, a cross-section of Sussex, cutting through the South Downs and the Weald, past fields, copses, sheep, cows and tractors, starlings and stately homes.
  • (12) But a spokesman said they would not spray between 3 and 4.30pm because school-run traffic could be on the road through the 25-hectare woodlands, Herridge's Copse and Broom Copse, which are south-east of Pangbourne.
  • (13) But Padruig's house is next to a small copse, and he likes to take to the trees when he has important decisions to make.
  • (14) Which is exactly what we did on her last day, watching woodpeckers in the copse in front of her cottage, and remembering our adventures together; up to an hour before she died, we were planning a new one, and she was excited that it might include a recce to the Arctic Circle to view the aurora borealis .
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A typical view of a Northamptonshire field through which HS2 will pass, near Halse Copse.