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Noun
/bro͞ot/,
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brutes, plural;
  1. A savagely violent person or animal
    • - he was a cold-blooded brute
  2. A cruel, unpleasant, or insensitive person
    • - what an unfeeling little brute you are
  3. An animal as opposed to a human being

  4. Something awkward, difficult, or unpleasant
    • - a great brute of a machine
  1. (brute) beast: a cruelly rapacious person
  2. (brute) beastly: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
  3. (brute) animal: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
  4. The Covenant is a fictional theocratic military alliance of alien races who serve as the main antagonists in the Halo science fiction series. ...
  5. (Brute!) Aidan Hughes is a commercial artist. He was born in 1956 in Merseyside, England, and was trained as an artist by his father, himself a landscape painter.
  6. (BRUTE) British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment (BRUTE) was a system of mobile containers used by British Rail from 1964 to the early 1990s to enable the sorting, handling and distribution of parcels, newspapers etc. in connection with railway operations.
  7. (Brute.) brute. was a side project band by guitarist Vic Chesnutt and the members of Widespread Panic.
  8. (Brute (comics)) Brute, in comics, may refer to: *Marvel Comics: **Brute (Hank McCoy), a superhero who is an alternate reality version of the X-Men's Beast **Brute (Morlocks), one of the lesser known Morlocks in the main Marvel universe **Brute (Reed Richards), the name of an alternative ...
  9. (Brute (Reed Richards)) Brute is a fictional character featured in Marvel Comics publications, most notably Fantastic Four.
  10. (Brute (Sandman)) This is a list of characters appearing in The Sandman comic book, published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. ...
  11. (Brute (song)) "Brute" is a song by industrial rock group KMFDM that was first released on their 1995 album Nihil. It was also released as a single with the song "Revolution" as B-side.
  12. (brute) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. [from 17th c.]; Someone with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. [from 17th c.]; Obsolete spelling of bruit; Without reason or intelligence (of animals). [from 15th c. ...
  13. (BRUTE) British Railways Utility Transport Equipment. Typically example being the wire cage trolleys seen on platforms.
  14. (Brute) A large carbon arc fixture.
  15. (Brute) An old term applied to the horse, but not by horsemen/women, except in the case of an animal justifying such an derogatory term.
  16. (Brute) An over-muscled gorilla-like splicer in Bioshock 2, with the strength and endurance of a Big Daddy but a fear of being thought gay.
  17. (Brute) Fat zombie, add 1000 lbs. and explodes on death.
  18. (brute) Acting like a wild animal.
  19. A brute arc light, usually 225 amps DC powered.
  20. Bruting is the first step in cutting a diamond. Bruting involves shaping the girdle, which gives the stone its basic shape.
  21. (Bruting) is another name for cutting to fashion the girdle outline of a brilliant cut.
  22. (bruting) The cutting of one diamond with another. It is only used in the production of round stones, in order to round out the girdle of the diamond on a lathe
  23. (Bruting) A method of rough-diamond fashioning by rubbing one diamond against another.
  24. (Bruting) The process of forming the basic face-up outline of a diamond to prepare it for faceting.
  25. Bruting is the initial shaping of a rough gemstone.