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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hairbrush/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hairbrush/#x1)
- She brushed her long hair with a hairbrush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hairbrush/#x2)
- Don't share your hairbrush, or you might share nits too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hairbrush/#x3)
- The hairbrush was full of the dog's fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hairbrush/#x4)
- A hairbrush costs $4, a comb costs $2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hairbrush/#x5)
- I packed my toothbrush and hairbrush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hairbrush/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hairbrush» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hairbrush/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.