英语词汇“bush”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	bush
释义	bush I. \ˈbu̇sh\ noun (-es) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English bush, busk, bosk; akin to Middle Dutch busch, bosch, bush, forest, Old High German busc, Old Swedish buske bush 1. a. : shrub; especially : a low densely branched shrub suggesting a single plant < a blueberry bush > b. : a close thicket of shrubs < bushes suitable for a hedge > c. dialect England : thorn 2. a. (1) : common uncultivated usually undesirable bushes < a field overgrown with bush > (2) : the mixed plant growth typical of an uncleared or uncultivated area especially when other than grass or trees < part of the land once cultivated has been abandoned, to the sea, to flood waters, or to bush — W.A.Lewis > (3) : forest, woods, jungle < in the dense bush … creepers of many kinds and of every size, from huge cables to thin cords, loop from tree to tree, pushing up to the sunlight and knotting the undergrowth into impenetrable thickets — C.D.Forde > b. : a large uncleared or uncultivated area usually scrub-covered or heavily forested : wilderness < all this property … was bush where last year nothing thrived but zebra and impala, wildebeest and bad snakes — Basil Davidson > c. : a usually vast sparsely settled area : backcountry < bush doctor > < bush flying > < bush airline > — usually used with the when not attributive < in the lonely bush — Henry Lawson > < boys from the bush — Esther Warner > specifically : any of certain vast and sparsely settled geographical areas especially in New Zealand, Australia, Africa, and Canada 3. a. (1) archaic : a bunch or branch of ivy formerly hung outside a tavern to indicate wine for sale (2) obsolete : tavern b. : advertising — used especially with need < good wine needs no bush — Shakespeare > < good essays need no bush — Yale Review > 4. : something resembling or felt to resemble a bush < the ermine bush of feathers that formed the crest — W.H.St.John Hope > < bushes of black smoke — Barrett McGurn > < a bush of hair — Roger Senhouse > 5. : sugar bush 6. [by shortening] : bush league — usually used in plural < finally decided to ship him back to the bushes — Scholastic Coach > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-es) *transitive verb* 1. : to support (as a plant) with bushes < the birch he said I could have to bush my peas — Robert Frost > 2. : to mark (as a route) with bushes < a logging road across the river was bushed where the ice was safe > 3. : to protect (land or game) from net poachers by placing obstacles (as bushes) to prevent effective use of a net *intransitive verb* : to extend like a bush : have the appearance of a bush < his eyebrows bushed together > < he looked about 30 but surprising gray hair bushed out of his fore-and-aft cap — Richard Llewellyn > • - bush it III. adjective : having a low-growing compact bushy habit — used especially of cultivated beans < bush snap beans > IV. noun (-es) Etymology: Dutch bus bushing, box, from Middle Dutch busse box, from Late Latin buxis — more at box 1. : bushing 2. : a threaded socket flush with a surface of a camera or projector for attachment to a tripod V. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) : to furnish with a bushing VI. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: by shortening : bushhammer VII. \ˈbu̇sh\ adjective Etymology: bush (I) (minor league) : falling below acceptable standards : unprofessional < the travesty was not that the speedway went the show-business route, but that the execution was so bush — J.S.Radosta >
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