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noun
1.
Electricity. a lining for a hole, intended to insulate and protect from abrasion one or more conductors that pass through it.
2.
Machinery.
a.
a replaceable thin tube or sleeve, usually of bronze, mounted in a case or housing as a bearing.
b.
a replaceable hardened steel tube used as a guide for various tools or parts, as a drill or valve rod.
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Bushing
is always a great word to know.
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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noun
1.
a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground.
2.
a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant.
3.
something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair.
4.
Also called bush lot. Canadian. a small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
5.
EXPANDthe tail of a fox; brush.
6.
Geography. a stretch of uncultivated land covered with mixed plant growth, bushy vegetation, trees, etc.
7.
a large uncleared area thickly covered with mixed plant growth, trees, etc., as a jungle.
8.
a large, sparsely populated area most of which is uncleared, as areas of Australia and Alaska.
9.
a tree branch hung as a sign before a tavern or vintner's shop.
10.
any tavern sign.
11.
Slang: Vulgar. pubic hair.
12.
COLLAPSEArchaic. a wineshop.
verb (used without object)
13.
to be or become bushy; branch or spread as or like a bush.
verb (used with object)
14.
to cover, protect, support, or mark with a bush or bushes.
adjective
Idioms15.
16.
beat around/about the bush, to avoid coming to the point; delay in approaching a subject directly: Stop beating around the bush and tell me what you want.
17.
beat the bushes, to scout or search for persons or things far and wide: beating the bushes for engineers.
18.
go bush, Australian.
a.
to flee or escape into the bush.
b.
Slang. to become wild.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English busshe, Old English busc (in place-names); cognate with Dutch bos wood, German Busch, Old Norse buskr bush
before 1000; Middle English busshe, Old English busc (in place-names); cognate with Dutch bos wood, German Busch, Old Norse buskr bush
Related forms
bush·less, adjective
bush·like, adjective
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| bushing (ˈbʊʃɪŋ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | another word for bush |
| 2. | an adaptor having ends of unequal diameters, often with internal screw threads, used to connect pipes of different sizes |
| 3. | a layer of electrical insulation enabling a live conductor to pass through an earthed wall, etc |
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Word Origin & History
bush
"many-stemmed woody plant," O.E. bysc, from W.Gmc. *busk "bush, thicket" (cf. Du. bos, Ger. Busch). Influenced by or combined with cognate words from Scandinavian (cf. Dan. busk) and O.Fr. (busche "firewood," apparently of Frank. origin), and also perhaps Anglo-L. bosca "firewood," from M.L. busca (whence
EXPANDIt. bosco, Fr. bois), which also was borrowed from W.Gmc. In British colonies, applied to the uncleared districts, hence "country," as opposed to town (1780); probably from Du. bosch, in the same sense, since it seems to appear first in former Du. colonies. Meaning "pubic hair" (especially of a woman) is from 1745. To beat the bushes (mid-15c.) is a way to rouse birds so that they fly into the net which others are holding, which originally was the same thing as beating around the bush (see beat).
bushing
"metal sleeve fitted into a machine or hole," 1839, from gerundive of bush "metal lining of the axle hole of a wheel or touch hole of a gun" (1560s), from M.Du. busse "box" (cognate with the second element in blunderbuss).
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