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TO BRUSH UP

Definition: TO BRUSH UP

TO BRUSH UP

1. To paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew. You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. --Pope.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: TO BRUSH UP

Specialty definitions using "TO BRUSH UP": ASSEMBLY INSPECTOR ♦ BACK TENDER, CLOTH PRINTING, Balai, book stripper, brazer, BRAZER, ASSEMBLER, BREAK-AND-LOAD OPERATOR, BRUSH-FABRICATION SUPERVISOR ♦ car checker, CLEANER-TOUCH-UP WORKER, COLLATOR, HAND ♦ EXPANSION-JOINT BUILDER, expansion-joint finisher, EXTRUSION-PRESS ADJUSTER ♦ FRAME TRIMMER I, FUR NAILER ♦ hand painter, HEAD-BANDER-AND-LINER OPERATOR, HIGH-DENSITY FINISHING OPERATOR ♦ lining printer ♦ MACHINE OPERATOR II, maintenance worker, house trailer, make-ready mechanic, mill laborer, MOBILE-HOME-LOT UTILITY WORKER ♦ NEW-CAR GET-READY MECHANIC ♦ OPTICAL-INSTRUMENT ASSEMBLER ♦ PANTOGRAPHER, paper layer, PAPIER MACHE MOLDER, PHOTO TECHNICIAN, POWER-DRIVEN-BRUSH MAKER ♦ RELIEF-MAP MODELER, RETOUCHER, PHOTOENGRAVING, ROLL BUILDER ♦ salvage painter, shader and toner, SKETCH MAKER II, SMOKING-PIPE MAKER, STONE REPAIRER, stripper, black and white, STRIPPER, LITHOGRAPHIC II, stripper-opaquer ♦ TAKE-UP OPERATOR, TEMPLATE MAKER, EXTRUSION DIE, three-dimensional-map modeler, TIP PRINTER, torch brazer, TOUCH-UP PAINTER, HAND, touch-up worker, TWISTING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ VARITYPE OPERATOR, VECTOR CONTROL ASSISTANT, videotex ♦ WOODWORKING-SHOP HAND, woodworking-shop laborer. (references)

Modern Translation: TO BRUSH UP

Language		Translations for "TO BRUSH UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		etwas wieder auffrischen (to brush up on something). (various references)

Hungarian		kitisztít (to clean, to prick, to purge, to shine, to unclog), felfrissít (brush up, freshen, perk, refresh, refurbish, to enliven, to freshen, to recruit, to refresh, to refurbish, to renew, to revive, to touch up), felelevenít (bring back, brush up, reproduce, to evoke, to recall, to resuscitate, to revive, vivify), felélénkít (animate, brisk, smarten, to animate, to enliven, to jazz up, to pep, to tone up, to zing up). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay ushbray upay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO BRUSH UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-h-o-p-r-s-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: brushup, hotspur, outpush, outrush, rubouts.
	-3 letters: borsht, broths, robust, rouths, rubout, sprout, stupor, thorps, throbs, tophus, turbos, uprush, upshot.
	-4 letters: bhuts, borts, bouts, broth, brush, buhrs, burps, burst, horst, hours, hurst, hurts, ouphs, phots, phuts, ports, pours, pouts, prost, roups, roust, routh, routs, rubus, ruths, short, shout, shrub, south, sport, spout, spurt, stoup.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: TO BRUSH UP

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 42 52 55 53 48 55 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01010010 01010101 01010011 01001000 00100000 01010101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#66 &#82 &#85 &#83 &#72 &#32 &#85 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0042 0052 0055 0053 0048 0055 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492365255534225550

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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