hairbrush

«hairbrush» in Mova's school dictionary: A brush with a handle used to make your hair smooth and tidy — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hairbrush, hairbrushes)

meaning for a pupil

A brush with a handle used to make your hair smooth and tidy. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life you brush your hair in the morning; in hygiene lessons you keep your own hairbrush and do not share it (to avoid head lice). Phrases: «brush your hair with a hairbrush», «a round hairbrush».

examples

• Where's my hairbrush? tree →
• She brushed her long hair with a hairbrush. tree →
• Don't share your hairbrush, or you might share nits too. tree →
• The hairbrush was full of the dog's fur. tree →
• A hairbrush costs $4, a comb costs $2. tree →
• I packed my toothbrush and hairbrush. tree →

note

One word. Plural «hairbrushes» (-es after sh). A comb has teeth, a hairbrush has bristles.

In the corpora

• Head lice and germs can spread through shared helmets, hats and hairbrushes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hairbrush» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.