brush up (on) something

Examples of brushing

brushing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Subjects were asked to use the swab as if brushing their teeth for 30-60 s until the device was very wet.
When this problem arose, the bubbles were removed by carefully brushing the sensor.
In routine work it is customary for observers to collect a sample of 50 eggs off the plants of record, brushing off those uncollected.
The retina was then immediately dislodged from the filter paper by gentle brushing and mounted into the recording chamber with the ganglion cell layer up.
The same neuron showed a large response to brushing the cutaneous receptive field.
Not many people would agree, however, that the ritual of, say, brushing their teeth makes this a religious experience.
Reports and surveys the brushing strokes analysed by the computer program to create the perfect sweep.
Retinas were isolated by dissecting the eyes from their orbits, then lightly brushing the retina apar t from the sclera and pigment epithelium.
In this work, brushing is used as an interaction method for swiftly gaining access to the information related to the currently visualized information.
In effect, the use of brushing makes it possible to show an increased number of variates.
Subjects were asked to refrain from eating, drinking or brushing their teeth 30 min prior to sampling.
During typical robot tasks, such as assembly, material handling, polishing, brushing, etc. the robot manipulator is in contact with the environment.
The presentation form is a three-dimensional correlation matrix, and the visualization methods used are brushing and glyphs.
The concentration of presumably dust-borne elements like sulfur and chlorine diminished significantly with brushing, and diminished dramatically with grinding.
Par ticipants were instructed to provide saliva before brushing teeth or eating the morning meal on each of the four mornings.
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