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brush1 1. a device made of bristles, hairs, wires, etc., set into a firm back or handle: used to apply paint, clean or polish surfaces, groom the hair, etc 2. the bushy tail of a fox, often kept as a trophy after a hunt, or of certain breeds of dog 3. an electric conductor, esp one made of carbon, that conveys current between stationary and rotating parts of a generator, motor, etc 4. a dark brush-shaped region observed when a biaxial crystal is viewed through a microscope, caused by interference between beams of polarized light brush2 1. a thick growth of shrubs and small trees; scrub 2. land covered with scrub 3. broken or cut branches or twigs; brushwood 4. wooded sparsely populated country; backwoods brush [brəsh] (ecology) (electricity) A conductive metal or carbon block used to make sliding electrical contact with a moving part. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Neil Steinberg brushes aside the suffering of tens of billions of animals killed annually on factory farms in an attempt to classify animal rights activists as nuts who receive a big grin from "Mother Earth" every time they eat a soy burger. As Shepard is well aware, the oppositions this play sets up insistently collapse into one other: he brushes aside evidence he himself collects that Faustus's playing is just as meretricious--and just as meaningless--as the actions of those he opposes. But the president's letter ignores the constitutional principle of church-state separation and brushes aside the diversity of America. |
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