Mop vs. Brush — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mop and Brush
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Mop
A mop (such as a floor mop) is a mass or bundle of coarse strings or yarn, etc., or a piece of cloth, sponge or other absorbent material, attached to a pole or stick. It is used to soak up liquid, for cleaning floors and other surfaces, to mop up dust, or for other cleaning purposes.
Brush
A brush is a common tool with bristles, wire or other filaments. It generally consists of a handle or block to which filaments are affixed in either a parallel or perpendicular orientation, depending on the way the brush is to be gripped during use.
Mop
A household implement made of absorbent material attached to a typically long handle and used for washing, dusting, or drying floors.
Brush
An implement with a handle and a block of bristles, hair, or wire, used especially for cleaning, applying a liquid or powder to a surface, or arranging the hair
A shaving brush
Mop
A loosely tangled bunch or mass
A mop of unruly hair.
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Brush
A light and fleeting touch
The lightest brush of his lips against her cheek
Mop
To wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
Mopped the hallway.
Mopping the spilled water.
Mopped her forehead with a towel.
Brush
The bushy tail of a fox.
Mop
To use a mop to wash or dry surfaces
Mopped along the baseboards.
Brush
A drumstick with long wire bristles, used to make a soft hissing sound on drums or cymbals.
Mop
An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
Brush
A piece of carbon or metal serving as an electrical contact with a moving part in a motor or alternator.
Mop
A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
Brush
Girls or women regarded sexually
‘Beer first, brush later.’
Mop
(humorous) A dense head of hair.
He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
Brush
Undergrowth, small trees, and shrubs.
Mop
A fair where servants are hired.
Brush
Remove (dust or dirt) by sweeping or scrubbing
We'll be able to brush the mud off easily
Mop
The young of any animal.
Brush
Touch lightly and gently
Stems of grass brush against her legs
Their fingers brushed as she took the glass from him
Mop
A young girl; a moppet.
Brush
An implement typically consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, grooming, or applying a liquid.
Mop
A made-up face; a grimace.
Brush
The act of using this implement.
Mop
(transitive) To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
To mop (or scrub) a floor
To mop one's face with a handkerchief
Brush
A sweeping stroke of the hand, as in removing something.
Mop
(intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.
Brush
A light touch in passing; a graze.
Mop
To shoplift.
Brush
An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous
A brush with the law.
A brush with death.
Mop
A made-up face; a grimace.
Brush
A bushy tail
The brush of a fox.
Mop
An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
Brush
A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.
Mop
A fair where servants are hired.
Brush
A snub; a brushoff.
Mop
The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
Brush
Dense vegetation consisting of shrubs or small trees.
Mop
To make a wry mouth.
Brush
Land covered by such a growth.
Mop
To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.
Brush
Cut or broken branches.
Mop
Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
Brush
To clean, polish, or groom with a brush
Brush one's teeth.
Brush the dog's coat.
Mop
To wash or wipe with or as if with a mop;
Mop the hallway now
He mopped her forehead with a towel
Brush
To apply with a brush
Brushed shellac onto the wood.
Mop
Make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip;
Mop and mow
The girl pouted
Brush
To remove with a brush or with sweeping strokes
Brushed dirt from his pants.
Brush
To touch lightly in passing; graze against.
Brush
To use a brush.
Brush
To make sweeping strokes with the hand.
Brush
To touch something lightly in moving past.
Brush
An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
Brush
The act of brushing something.
She gave her hair a quick brush.
Brush
A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
Brush
A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
Brush
(uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
Brush
A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
He has had brushes with communism from time to time.
Brush
The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
Brush
(zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
Brush
(archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
Brush
(music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
Brush
(computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
Brush
(computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
Downloading brushes for Photoshop
Brush
(video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
Brush
The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
Brush
Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
Brush
(transitive) To clean with a brush.
Brush your teeth.
Brush
(transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
Brush your hair.
Brush
(transitive) To apply with a brush.
I am brushing the paint onto the walls.
Brush
(transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
'She brushes the flour off your clothes.
Brush
(ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
Her scarf brushed his skin.
Brush
(intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
Brush
An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
Brush
The bushy tail of a fox.
Brush
A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
Brush
Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
Brush
A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
Brush
Land covered with brush{5}; in Australia, a dense growth of vegetation in good soil, including shrubs and trees, mostly small.
Brush
A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.
Brush
The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.
[As leaves] have with one winter's brushFell from their boughts.
Brush
A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy; a brush with the law.
Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong,And tempt not yet the brushes of the war.
Brush
A short contest, or trial, of speed.
Let us enjoy a brush across the country.
Brush
To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.
Brush
To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.
Some spread their sailes, some with strong oars sweepThe waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.
Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings.
Brush
To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; - commonly with off.
As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushedWith raven's feather from unwholesome fen.
And from the boughts brush off the evil dew.
You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors.
Brush
To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.
Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind.
Brush
A dense growth of bushes
Brush
An implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
Brush
Momentary contact
Brush
Conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
Brush
A minor short-term fight
Brush
The act of brushing your teeth;
The dentist recommended two brushes a day
Brush
The act of brushing your hair;
He gave his hair a quick brush
Brush
Contact with something dangerous or undesirable;
I had a brush with danger on my way to work
He tried to avoid any brushes with the police
Brush
Rub with a brush, or as if with a brush;
Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket
Brush
Touch lightly and briefly;
He brushed the wall lightly
Brush
Clean with a brush;
She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet
Brush
Sweep across or over;
Her long skirt brushed the floor
A gasp swept cross the audience
Brush
Remove with or as if with a brush;
Brush away the crumbs
Brush the dust from the jacket
Brush aside the objections
Brush
Cover by brushing;
Brush the bread with melted butter
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