brute
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).
Inflected forms:
form: more brute
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brute
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bruting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bruted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bruted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
pos: adj
examples: a brute beast
gloss: Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
pos: adj
examples: A creature […] not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason.
gloss: Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
pos: adj
examples: the brute earth; the brute powers of nature
gloss: Crude, unpolished.
pos: adj
examples: a great brute farmer from Liddesdale
gloss: Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
pos: adj
examples: I got the door open through brute force.
The two Gladiators, Kreugas and Damoxenos, a subject from Pausanias, is another work in the same grand style. There is a want of nobility both in the countenances and forms of the combatants, and the expression of brute strength is too little relieved by that of courage arid heroism. The gentlemen of the fancy too find fault with the attitudes, as contrary to the rules of boxing ; a fault to be excused in consideration of the want in Rome of an establishment like Fives' court in London.
The rest of the massive figure gives one idea, strength in perfect repose ; the countenance, in its varied expression, is the soul of the whole. This is the more evident, because the expression in the human-headed lions and bulls is precisely the same. The animal-symbol must have been altogether subordinate, because it varies, without varying in the least that expression of mind which arrests the gazer. When brute force is meant to be represented, it is figured in all its fierceness, as in the colossal lion with vast wide-open jaws, found in one of the temples at Nimrud. It expresses devouring fierceness and rage, and these alone. Instead of that calm human head, are the vast jaws outstretched, as if ready to devour, and purposely disproportioned for magnitude to the rest of the colossal figure, because the object was to express terrible fierceness.
When Mr. Chalmers refused to O. K. the sacrifice of all-round performance to mere brute might, he saved the owner of the 3400 r. p. m.
gloss: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
pos: adj
examples: brute violence
gloss: An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings.
‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’
“I would then never have known what minute, or by whom, I was to be attacked next. But the brutes are more chivalrous than man—they do not stoop to cowardly intrigue.”
But if he lives badly, he will, in the next life, be a woman; if he (or she) persists in evil-doing, he (or she) will become a brute, and go on through transmigrations until at last reason conquers.
gloss: A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
pos: noun
examples: One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."
She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
gloss: A kind of powerful spotlight.
pos: noun
examples: For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]
At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.
gloss: One who has not yet matriculated.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
gloss: To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: brute fact
brute strength
brutal
brutality
brutedom
brute force
brute for punishment
brutelike
brutely
bruteness
bruter
brutesome
brutify
brutish
brutism
brutist
imbrute
unbrute
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