Brush (disambiguation)

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The word brush may refer to:

• A brush, a device with bristles, wire or other filament of any possible material used mainly for cleaning, grooming hair, painting, deburring and other kinds of surface finishing
• A hairbrush
• A toothbrush
• A toilet brush
• A Pastry brush or basting brush
• Drum brushes are a special type of drum sticks used for smoother playing.
• A verb, meaning the act of using a brush or hairbrush
• Untamed grassy areas, as well as so-called "Transitional Zones"—areas between canopy forests and field type habitats
• In golf, it is synonymous with the "rough"—the area outside the fairway
• In 3D computer game development, brushes are the solid, in many game engines convex, polyhedrons that make up the level geometry
• In electronics, a copper wire brush conducts current
• A large, bushy tail of an animal (particularly a fox) is sometimes called a brush
• Brush, Colorado is a town in the USA
• Brush Turbogenerators is a part of FKI and a UK manufacturer of generators, for gas turbine and steam turbine drive.
• Brush Electrical Machines is a UK manufacturer of generators, for gas turbine and steam turbine drive.
• Brush HMA based in Holland is a manufacturer of generators, for gas turbine and steam turbine drive.
• Brush SEM based in Czech Republic is a manufacturer of generators, for gas turbine and steam turbine drive.
• Brush Traction is a UK manufacturer of railway locomotives
• Brush was the name of a Great British royal Pembroke Welsh Corgi, belonging to Queen Elizabeth II
• Brush Motor Car Company, an early 20th century United States automobile company
• The paintbrush has appeared as a charge in heraldry
• Paintbrush may also refer to the digital equivalent one would find in a bitmap graphics editor, i.e. a virtual brush that can modify a digital picture
• Brush Creek
• Brush Engineered Materials, a miner, refiner, and manufacturer of engineered metals, particularly beryllium and beryllium alloys

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• Charles F. Brush
• George de Forest Brush
• George Jarvis Brush
• Henry Brush
• John T. Brush
• Katharine Brush
• Paul Brush
• Richard Brush
• Rufe Brush, fictional character
• Basil Brush, fictional fox
• Ben Brush, Thoroughbred racehorse