Bush vs. Bushing — What's the Difference?

A shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length

A fixed or removable cylindrical metal lining used to constrain, guide, or reduce friction.

(especially in Australia and Africa) wild or uncultivated country

(Electricity) An insulating lining for an aperture through which a conductor passes.

A luxuriant growth of thick hair or fur

An adapter threaded to permit joining of pipes with different diameters.

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

(mechanical engineering) A type of bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.

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

(mechanical engineering) An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted.

Spread out into a thick clump

(mechanical engineering) A threaded bushing: a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material.

A low shrub with many branches.

(electrical engineering) A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.

A thick growth of shrubs; a thicket.

An adapter for joining pipes of different size.

Land covered with dense vegetation or undergrowth.

Present participle of bush

Land remote from settlement

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

A shaggy mass, as of hair.

A bush or lining; - sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.

Vulgar Slang A growth of pubic hair.

An insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass

A fox's tail.

A cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction

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

(Obsolete) A tavern.

To grow or branch out like a bush.

To extend in a bushy growth.

To decorate, protect, or support with bushes.

To furnish or line with a bushing.

(Slang) Bush-league; second-rate

(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.

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

(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.

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

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

(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

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

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

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

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

(Canadian) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

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

A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

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.

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

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

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

To become bushy (often used with up).

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

(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

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

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

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

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.

The tail, or brush, of a fox.

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.

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

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

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

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.

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

A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches

A large wilderness area

Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

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

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)

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

Hair growing in the pubic area

Provide with a bushing

Not of the highest quality or sophistication