Bristle
noun
A short and stiff hair on an animal or a brush.
The boar has tough bristles all over its body.
Often appears as...
- boar bristle
- bristle brush
verb
Stand upright away from the skin, especially in fear or anger.
The cat's fur bristled and it ran away.
Often appears as...
- bristle at the thought
- bristle with anger
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Disapproving
verb
Show anger or annoyance.
She bristled at the suggestion of being wrong.
Often appears as...
- bristle at criticism
- bristle at the idea
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Disapproving
noun
A short and stiff hair on an animal or a brush.
The boar has tough bristles all over its body.
Often appears as...
- boar bristle
- bristle brush
verb
Stand upright away from the skin, especially in fear or anger.
The cat's fur bristled and it ran away.
Often appears as...
- bristle at the thought
- bristle with anger
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
Show anger or annoyance.
She bristled at the suggestion of being wrong.
Often appears as...
- bristle at criticism
- bristle at the idea
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Texture Indicator
Used to describe hair or fibers that are hard and not easy to bend.
Heavy-duty cleaning brushes often have stiff bristles.
Pro Tip 2/3Animal Description
Often used when discussing the coat or mane of certain animals.
The worn-out horse's mane was full of gray bristles.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Creates a clear picture of roughness or ruggedness in objects or textures.
His beard looked like a mass of dark bristles after not shaving.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Indicator
Used to describe hair or fibers that are hard and not easy to bend.
Heavy-duty cleaning brushes often have stiff bristles.
Pro Tip 2/3Animal Description
Often used when discussing the coat or mane of certain animals.
The worn-out horse's mane was full of gray bristles.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Creates a clear picture of roughness or ruggedness in objects or textures.
His beard looked like a mass of dark bristles after not shaving.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Indicator
Used to describe hair or fibers that are hard and not easy to bend.
Heavy-duty cleaning brushes often have stiff bristles.
Pro Tip 2/3Animal Description
Often used when discussing the coat or mane of certain animals.
The worn-out horse's mane was full of gray bristles.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Creates a clear picture of roughness or ruggedness in objects or textures.
His beard looked like a mass of dark bristles after not shaving.
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5 challenges we could...
that are literally bristling with the viral protein, we find that such vaccine candidates produce a much stronger immune response to the virus than any previous vaccines that have been tested. This is important because RSV is currently one of the leading causes of infant mortality worldwide.
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Exploring other...
and even the insides of his friends, which is probably pretty awkward. Once the hapless square comes to terms with the third dimension, he begs his host to help him visit the fourth and higher dimensions, but the sphere bristles at the mere suggestion of dimensions higher than three
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Focusing on blind spots...
sound waves through a kind of a membrane covered with parchment and that would vibrate modeled after the anatomy of the human ear and would convert those vibrations into a vibrations in a little pig bristle there would each wave forms onto a rotating cylinder it was just in
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Sir David Attenborough...
but now after a week the bristles are already beginning to thicken into a tiny spines we had to go to their main laboratories in the capital tanner narev and there i was privileged to see one of the most remarkable creatures in the world
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How Your Toothbrush...
And, boom, the very first nylon bristle toothbrush. Then came World War II. - But most important of all, clean your teeth often. Clean them well. - And it was during the war that the Army decided to give every soldier a toothbrush
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The Fastest Carnivorous...
complete long bristles act as an energy saver for the plant as these stop passing debris from triggering the trap despite being found in europe asia africa and australia water wheel plants are now endangered and rare in the
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How I'm Working for...
When I hear these arguments, I still continue to bristle, because I have family and friends. These are my people, and I'm the first to defend them, but the struggle is real. How do we respect someone's religious beliefs
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Safari Live - Day 118 PIPE...
now you can possibly just make out a few small bristle like whiskers and it's got a tiny little beak but a very large mouth when it does in fact open that beak and those small little bristles and whiskers help funnel
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The Secret Life of...
It can catch tiny bits in its bristles, but prefers larger prey like salps. With two sets of eyes, this female prowls the deeper water. Prey in hand, she performs one of the strangest behaviors
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Racism thrives on...
Because it's uncomfortable, certainly. But that's only part of the answer. The bigger truth is far more damaging. Your bristling isn't just defensiveness. It is a defense mechanism.
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5 challenges we could...
that are literally bristling with the viral protein, we find that such vaccine candidates produce a much stronger immune response to the virus than any previous vaccines that have been tested. This is important because RSV is currently one of the leading causes of infant mortality worldwide.
Video examples
Exploring other...
and even the insides of his friends, which is probably pretty awkward. Once the hapless square comes to terms with the third dimension, he begs his host to help him visit the fourth and higher dimensions, but the sphere bristles at the mere suggestion of dimensions higher than three
Video examples
Focusing on blind spots...
sound waves through a kind of a membrane covered with parchment and that would vibrate modeled after the anatomy of the human ear and would convert those vibrations into a vibrations in a little pig bristle there would each wave forms onto a rotating cylinder it was just in
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Sir David Attenborough...
but now after a week the bristles are already beginning to thicken into a tiny spines we had to go to their main laboratories in the capital tanner narev and there i was privileged to see one of the most remarkable creatures in the world
Video examples
How Your Toothbrush...
And, boom, the very first nylon bristle toothbrush. Then came World War II. - But most important of all, clean your teeth often. Clean them well. - And it was during the war that the Army decided to give every soldier a toothbrush
Video examples
The Fastest Carnivorous...
complete long bristles act as an energy saver for the plant as these stop passing debris from triggering the trap despite being found in europe asia africa and australia water wheel plants are now endangered and rare in the
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How I'm Working for...
When I hear these arguments, I still continue to bristle, because I have family and friends. These are my people, and I'm the first to defend them, but the struggle is real. How do we respect someone's religious beliefs
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 118 PIPE...
now you can possibly just make out a few small bristle like whiskers and it's got a tiny little beak but a very large mouth when it does in fact open that beak and those small little bristles and whiskers help funnel
Video examples
The Secret Life of...
It can catch tiny bits in its bristles, but prefers larger prey like salps. With two sets of eyes, this female prowls the deeper water. Prey in hand, she performs one of the strangest behaviors
Video examples
Racism thrives on...
Because it's uncomfortable, certainly. But that's only part of the answer. The bigger truth is far more damaging. Your bristling isn't just defensiveness. It is a defense mechanism.
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Rian Johnson
American Writer
I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.
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Russell M. Nelson
American Clergyman
I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.
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Jamie Hyneman
American Entertainer
I pretty much learned not to fight with it a long time ago and let it do what it likes to do. Otherwise, my shaving techniques are pretty mundane. I tend to do it in the shower because it makes the bristles soft and keeps the razor from building up the hairs inside it, and the mustache is dealt with with scissors.
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Zac Goldsmith
British Politician
Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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Noelle Stevenson
American Artist
I tend to bristle at people praising alt comics as some kind of perfect comics paradigm, because there's quite a lot of misogyny in its history as well. Like, in my first comics class, every single great comic creator we studied was male.
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Jennifer Armintrout
American Author
I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.
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Nick Davies
British Journalist
In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.
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Ethan Canin
American Author
Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.
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Jay Duplass
American Director
Ultralight backpackers do some stupid stuff, like instead of bringing a toothbrush, you saw one off right below the bristles and just carry the head.
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Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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Rian Johnson
American Writer
I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.
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Russell M. Nelson
American Clergyman
I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.
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Jamie Hyneman
American Entertainer
I pretty much learned not to fight with it a long time ago and let it do what it likes to do. Otherwise, my shaving techniques are pretty mundane. I tend to do it in the shower because it makes the bristles soft and keeps the razor from building up the hairs inside it, and the mustache is dealt with with scissors.
Quote examples
Zac Goldsmith
British Politician
Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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Noelle Stevenson
American Artist
I tend to bristle at people praising alt comics as some kind of perfect comics paradigm, because there's quite a lot of misogyny in its history as well. Like, in my first comics class, every single great comic creator we studied was male.
Quote examples
Jennifer Armintrout
American Author
I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.
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Nick Davies
British Journalist
In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.
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Ethan Canin
American Author
Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.
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Jay Duplass
American Director
Ultralight backpackers do some stupid stuff, like instead of bringing a toothbrush, you saw one off right below the bristles and just carry the head.
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Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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