Scrub vs. Bush

Scrubadjective

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

Bushnoun

(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.

Scrubnoun

One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

Bushnoun

A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's; loosely, a woman's vulva.

Scrubnoun

One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.

‘What a scrub! Instead of washing the dishes she put the used food on her face!’;

Bushnoun

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

‘bushes to support pea vines’;

Scrubnoun

A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant

‘oak scrub’;

Bushnoun

(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.

Scrubnoun

One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.

Bushnoun

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

Scrubnoun

Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.

Bushnoun

(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

Scrubnoun

One not on the first team of players; a substitute.

Bushnoun

(often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.

Scrubnoun

An instance of scrubbing.

Bushnoun

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

Scrubnoun

A cancellation.

Bushnoun

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

Scrubnoun

A worn-out brush.

Bushnoun

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

Scrubnoun

One who scrubs.

Bushnoun

(Canadian) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

Scrubnoun

Clothing worn while performing surgery.

Bushnoun

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

Scrubnoun

Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).

Bushnoun

A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

Scrubnoun

An exfoliant for the body.

Bushnoun

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.

Scrubverb

(transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening

‘to scrub a floor’; ‘to scrub your fingernails’;

Bushnoun

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

Scrubverb

(intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour

Bushverb

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

Scrubverb

To be diligent and penurious

‘to scrub hard for a living’;

Bushverb

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

‘to bush peas’;

Scrubverb

(transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.

‘Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.’;

Bushverb

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’;

Scrubverb

To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets

‘The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.’;

Bushverb

(transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining.

‘to bush a pivot hole’;

Scrubverb

(audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.

Bushadverb

(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

‘On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.’;

Scrubverb

To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.

Bushadjective

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

‘They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.’;

Scrubverb

To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

Bushnoun

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

Scrubverb

To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

Bushnoun

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.’;

Scrubnoun

One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

‘We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.’;

Bushnoun

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

Scrubnoun

Something small and mean.

Bushnoun

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.’;

Scrubnoun

A worn-out brush.

Bushnoun

The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Scrubnoun

A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.

Bushnoun

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.

Scrubnoun

One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.

Bushnoun

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

Scrubnoun

Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush; - called also scrub brush. See Brush, above.

Bushverb

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

Scrubnoun

A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.

Bushverb

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

Scrubadjective

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

‘How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!’; ‘No little scrub joint shall come on my board.’;

Bushverb

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.

Scrubnoun

dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

Bushverb

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

Scrubnoun

the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

Bushnoun

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches

Scrubverb

clean with hard rubbing;

‘She scrubbed his back’;

Bushnoun

a large wilderness area

Scrubverb

wash thoroughly;

‘surgeons must scrub prior to an operation’;

Bushnoun

dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

Scrubadjective

(of domestic animals) not selectively bred

Bushnoun

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

Bushnoun

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)

Bushnoun

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

Bushnoun

hair growing in the pubic area

Bushverb

provide with a bushing

Bushadjective

not of the highest quality or sophistication

Bushnoun

a shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length

‘a rose bush’;

Bushnoun

a bunch of ivy as a vintner's sign.

Bushnoun

(especially in Australia and Africa) wild or uncultivated country

‘they have to spend a night camping in the bush’;

Bushnoun

vegetation growing in the bush

‘the lowland country was covered in thick bush’;

Bushnoun

indigenous rainforest.

Bushnoun

uncivilized or primitive

‘bush justice’;

Bushnoun

a luxuriant growth of thick hair or fur

‘a childish face with a bush of bright hair’;

Bushnoun

a woman's pubic hair.

Bushnoun

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

Bushnoun

a bearing for a revolving shaft.

Bushnoun

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

Bushverb

spread out into a thick clump

‘her hair bushed out like a halo’;