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Arbor vs. Bush — What's the Difference?

Arbor vs. Bush — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Arbor and Bush

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Arbor

A shady resting place in a garden or park, often made of latticework on which plants such as climbing shrubs or vines are grown.

Bush

A shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length
A rose bush

Arbor

An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.

Bush

(especially in Australia and Africa) wild or uncultivated country
They have to spend a night camping in the bush

Arbor

A bar for supporting cutting tools.
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Bush

A luxuriant growth of thick hair or fur
A childish face with a bush of bright hair

Arbor

A spindle of a wheel, as in watches and clocks.

Bush

A metal lining for a round hole, especially one in which an axle revolves.

Arbor

Pl. ar·bo·res (ärbə-rēz′) A tree, as opposed to a shrub.

Bush

A sleeve that protects an electric cable where it passes through a panel.

Arbor

A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.

Bush

Spread out into a thick clump
Her hair bushed out like a halo

Arbor

A grove of trees.

Bush

A low shrub with many branches.

Arbor

An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.

Bush

A thick growth of shrubs; a thicket.

Arbor

A bar for supporting cutting tools.

Bush

Land covered with dense vegetation or undergrowth.

Arbor

A spindle of a wheel.

Bush

Land remote from settlement
The Australian bush.

Arbor

A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.

Bush

A shaggy mass, as of hair.

Arbor

A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.

Bush

Vulgar Slang A growth of pubic hair.

Arbor

An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.

Bush

A fox's tail.

Arbor

Tree (as opposed to shrub)

Bush

(Archaic) A clump of ivy hung outside a tavern to indicate the availability of wine inside.

Arbor

Any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

Bush

(Obsolete) A tavern.

Arbor

A framework that supports climbing plants;
The arbor provided a shady resting place in the park

Bush

To grow or branch out like a bush.

Bush

To extend in a bushy growth.

Bush

To decorate, protect, or support with bushes.

Bush

To furnish or line with a bushing.

Bush

(Slang) Bush-league; second-rate
"Reviewers here have tended to see in him a kind of bush D.H. Lawrence" (Saturday Review).

Bush

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

Bush

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
Bushes to support pea vines

Bush

(historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

Bush

A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.

Bush

(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Bush

(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

Bush

(often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.

Bush

(Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.

Bush

(New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.

Bush

(Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.

Bush

(Canadian) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

Bush

(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

Bush

A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

Bush

A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.

Bush

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Bush

(intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

Bush

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
To bush peas

Bush

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
To bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground

Bush

To become bushy (often used with up).
I can tell when my cat is upset because he'll bush up his tail.

Bush

(transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
To bush a pivot hole

Bush

(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.

Bush

(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.

Bush

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

Bush

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers.

Bush

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

Bush

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue.

Bush

The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Bush

A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

Bush

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Bush

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

Bush

To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

Bush

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

Bush

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

Bush

A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches

Bush

A large wilderness area

Bush

Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

Bush

43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)

Bush

United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

Bush

Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)

Bush

Hair growing in the pubic area

Bush

Provide with a bushing

Bush

Not of the highest quality or sophistication

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