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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plant.
- A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
- The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To abound, to be covered with, or to have an abundance of, something, especially something jutting out.
- (intransitive, usually with at or with) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
- (transitive, now rare or obsolete) To make (something) rise or stand erect, like bristles.
- (transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to be on one's guard or raise one's defenses.
- (rare) To fix a bristle or bristles to.
Esimerkit
- His hair did bristle upon his head.
- the hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets
- ports bristling with thousands of masts
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
- Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty / Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
- The employees bristled at the prospect of working through the holidays.
- to bristle a thread
- Almost the entire body is covered with bristles.
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