English Dictionary

brush

IPA（発音記号）

/bɹʌʃ/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古語 俗語

An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

日本語の意味

（一般的な道具としての）ブラシ：複数の柔軟な毛や繊維が柄に固定された道具で、掃除、塗装、髪の整髪などのために使用される。

He grabbed the brush and carefully wiped the dust from the old bookshelf.

彼は古い本棚のほこりを丁寧に払うためにブラシを手に取った。

意味（1）

An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

意味（2）

The act of brushing something.

She gave her hair a quick brush.

意味（3）

A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.

意味（4）

A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.

If there was a sharp point nearby, electricity would stream from it in a luminous brush, a little corposant, and one could blow out candles with the outstreaming “electric wind,” or even get this to turn a little rotor on its pivot.

意味（5）

(uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.

We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.

意味（6）

A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.

He has had brushes with communism from time to time.

意味（7）

The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.

They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

意味（8）

(zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

意味（9）

(archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.

Mark and Lord Lufton had been boys together, and his lordship knew that Mark in his heart would enjoy a brush across the country quite as well as he himself.

意味（10）

(music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.

意味（11）

(computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.

Your bitmap image appears along the painted stroke. If you'd like to permanently create a custom sprite brush, it's fairly easy to adapt an existing MEL file[…].

意味（12）

(computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.

downloading brushes for Photoshop

意味（13）

(video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.

意味（14）

(poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.

意味（15）

(North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.

brushes （ plural ）