| brush | | |
| n. (group) | 1. brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket | a dense growth of bushes. |
| ~ botany, flora, vegetation | all the plant life in a particular region or period.; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" |
| ~ brake | an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant. |
| ~ canebrake | a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane). |
| ~ spinney | a copse that shelters game. |
| ~ underbrush, undergrowth, underwood | the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. brush | an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle. |
| ~ bottlebrush | a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles. |
| ~ bristle | a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic. |
| ~ bristle brush | a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant. |
| ~ clothesbrush | a brush used for cleaning clothing. |
| ~ hairbrush | a brush used to groom a person's hair. |
| ~ handgrip, handle, grip, hold | the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip" |
| ~ implement | instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end. |
| ~ nailbrush | a brush used to clean a person's fingernails. |
| ~ paintbrush | a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint). |
| ~ sable, sable's hair pencil, sable brush | an artist's brush made of sable hairs. |
| ~ scrub brush, scrubbing brush, scrubber | a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning. |
| ~ shaving brush | a brush used to apply lather prior to shaving. |
| ~ toothbrush | small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth. |
| n. (event) | 3. brush, light touch | momentary contact. |
| ~ touch, touching | the event of something coming in contact with the body.; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. brush | conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor. |
| ~ electrical device | a device that produces or is powered by electricity. |
| ~ electric motor | a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work. |
| ~ generator | engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction. |
| n. (animal) | 5. brush | a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox). |
| ~ tail | the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body. |
| n. (act) | 6. brush, clash, encounter, skirmish | a minor short-term fight. |
| ~ contretemps | an awkward clash.; "he tried to smooth over his contretemps with the policeman" |
| ~ fighting, combat, fight, scrap | the act of fighting; any contest or struggle.; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" |
| n. (act) | 7. brush, brushing | the act of brushing your teeth.; "the dentist recommended two brushes a day" |
| ~ dental care | care for the teeth. |
| n. (act) | 8. brush, brushing | the act of brushing your hair.; "he gave his hair a quick brush" |
| ~ hair care, haircare, hairdressing | care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair. |
| n. (act) | 9. brush | contact with something dangerous or undesirable.; "I had a brush with danger on my way to work"; "he tried to avoid any brushes with the police" |
| ~ contact | close interaction.; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings" |
| v. (contact) | 10. brush | rub with a brush, or as if with a brush.; "Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket" |
| ~ rub | move over something with pressure.; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin" |
| v. (contact) | 11. brush | touch lightly and briefly.; "He brushed the wall lightly" |
| ~ touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with.; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" |
| ~ crease, graze, rake | scrape gently.; "graze the skin" |
| ~ flick | touch or hit with a light, quick blow.; "flicked him with his hand" |
| ~ sweep, brush | sweep across or over.; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience" |
| v. (contact) | 12. brush | clean with a brush.; "She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet" |
| ~ brush | remove with or as if with a brush.; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections" |
| ~ clean, make clean | make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from.; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth" |
| v. (motion) | 13. brush, sweep | sweep across or over.; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience" |
| ~ brush | touch lightly and briefly.; "He brushed the wall lightly" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ sail, sweep | move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions.; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky" |
| v. (change) | 14. brush | remove with or as if with a brush.; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ brush | clean with a brush.; "She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet" |
| v. (contact) | 15. brush | cover by brushing.; "brush the bread with melted butter" |
| ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
| litter | | |
| n. (group) | 1. litter | the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal. |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| n. (substance) | 2. litter | rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places). |
| ~ rubbish, trash, scrap | worthless material that is to be disposed of. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. litter | conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers. |
| ~ transport, conveyance | something that serves as a means of transportation. |
| ~ covered couch | a litter with a cover for privacy. |
| ~ palankeen, palanquin | a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers. |
| ~ sedan chair, sedan | a closed litter for one passenger. |
| ~ stretcher | a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. bedding, bedding material, litter | material used to provide a bed for animals. |
| ~ material, stuff | the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" |
| v. (stative) | 5. litter | strew.; "Cigar butts littered the ground" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (contact) | 6. litter | make a place messy by strewing garbage around. |
| ~ strew, straw | spread by scattering (.; "straw"; "strew toys all over the carpet" |
| v. (body) | 7. litter | give birth to a litter of animals. |
| ~ birth, give birth, bear, deliver, have | cause to be born.; "My wife had twins yesterday!" |
| weed | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. weed | any plant that crowds out cultivated plants. |
| ~ agrostemma githago, corn campion, corn cockle, crown-of-the-field | European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America. |
| ~ knawe, knawel, scleranthus annuus | widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers. |
| ~ corn spurrey, corn spurry, spergula arvensis | small European weed with whorled leaves and white flowers. |
| ~ sand spurry, sea spurry, spergularia rubra | prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America. |
| ~ carpetweed, indian chickweed, molluga verticillata | annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America. |
| ~ alligator grass, alligator weed, alternanthera philoxeroides | prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses. |
| ~ barbarea vulgaris, rockcress, rocket cress, sisymbrium barbarea, yellow rocket | noxious cress with yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium. |
| ~ erysimum cheiranthoides, wormseed mustard | slender yellow-flowered European mustard often troublesome as a weed; formerly used as an anthelmintic. |
| ~ jointed charlock, raphanus raphanistrum, runch, wild radish, wild rape | Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits. |
| ~ pennycress | any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi. |
| ~ ambrosia, bitterweed, ragweed | any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma. |
| ~ thistle | any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves. |
| ~ barnaby's thistle, centaurea solstitialis, yellow star-thistle | European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States. |
| ~ canadian fleabane, conyza canadensis, erigeron canadensis, horseweed, fleabane | common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron. |
| ~ erechtites hieracifolia, fireweed | an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers. |
| ~ hieracium praealtum, king devil, yellow hawkweed | European hawkweed introduced into northeastern United States; locally troublesome weeds. |
| ~ california dandelion, capeweed, gosmore, hypochaeris radicata, cat's-ear | European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears. |
| ~ bastard feverfew, parthenium hysterophorus | tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers; adventive in southern United States. |
| ~ bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, picris echioides, bugloss | widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States. |
| ~ hieracium aurantiacum, orange hawkweed, pilosella aurantiaca | European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium. |
| ~ senecio doublasii, threadleaf groundsel | bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads; southwestern United States; toxic to range livestock. |
| ~ benweed, ragweed, ragwort, senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort | widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity. |
| ~ groundsel, senecio vulgaris | Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers. |
| ~ cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur, cockleburr | any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs. |
| ~ nettle | any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae). |
| ~ tumbleweed | any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass. |
| ~ madnep, wild parsnip | biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip. |
| ~ tracheophyte, vascular plant | green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. mourning band, weed | a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning. |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body). |
| n. (artifact) | 3. dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, mary jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed | street names for marijuana. |
| ~ cannabis, ganja, marihuana, marijuana | the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect. |
| v. (change) | 4. weed | clear of weeds.; "weed the garden" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ stub | clear of weeds by uprooting them.; "stub a field" |
Recent comments
2 weeks 4 days ago
6 weeks 5 days ago
8 weeks 1 day ago
23 weeks 3 days ago
23 weeks 3 days ago
23 weeks 3 days ago
24 weeks 1 day ago
28 weeks 2 days ago
29 weeks 1 day ago
30 weeks 14 hours ago