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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brook
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I turned away from the brook and felt strangely restless.
▪ In Kangwon Province, there were villages with trickling brooks and houses with fruit trees in the yard.
▪ Just beyond the bridge, the road follows the brook filled with large black rocks and gravel.
▪ The brook was swollen and Hazel's ears could distinguish the deeper, smoother sound, changed since the day before.
▪ The real price though, has been paid by the wildlife which once lived in Cannop brook.
▪ The town brook, now covered over, became a source of energy for saw mills and other trades.
▪ They dwelt in brooks and springs and fountains.
▪ This was the last mill, the brook now wending its way towards the Severn at Minsterworth.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
argument
▪ Above all, it brooked no argument.
▪ Quintupled sales with a workforce reduced by one-third would seem to brook no argument.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A power that brooked no query.
▪ Above all, it brooked no argument.
▪ Congress would brook no potential economic rivals in the post-war world.
▪ He was too near the Accomplishment of the Purpose to brook any distractions.
▪ In contrast local military authorities would brook no delay.
▪ Not that, standing square in front of her, his expression brooking no refusal, he was giving her much choice.
▪ Tia Carmen says in a quiet voice that does not brook contradiction.
▪ Who worked later than any of us on the college paper and brooked no foolishness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brook

Brook \Brook\, n. [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. br[=o]c; akin to D. broek, LG. br[=o]k, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t.] A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
--Deut. viii. 7.

Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters.
--Shak.

Brook

Brook \Brook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br?can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr?hhan, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br?ka, Goth. br?kjan, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]

  1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
    --Spenser.

    Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten?
    --Macaulay.

  3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.]
    --Sir J. Hawkins.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brook

"small stream," Old English broc "flowing stream, torrest," of obscure origin, probably from Proto-Germanic *broka- which yielded words in German (Bruch) and Dutch (broek) that have a sense of "marsh." In Sussex and Kent, it means "water-meadow," and in plural, "low, marshy ground."

brook

"to endure," Old English brucan "use, enjoy, possess; eat; cohabit with," from Proto-Germanic *bruk- "to make use of, enjoy" (cognates: Old Saxon brukan, Old Frisian bruka, Old High German bruhhan, German brauchen "to use," Gothic brukjan), from PIE root *bhrug- "to make use of, have enjoyment of" (cognates: Latin fructus). Sense of "use" applied to food led to "be able to digest," and by 16c. to "tolerate."

Wiktionary
brook

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (label en transitive obsolete except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of. 2 (label en transitive obsolete) To earn; deserve. 3 (label en transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (''usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object''). Etymology 2

n. 1 A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream. 2 (lb en Sussex Kent) A water meadow. 3 (lb en Sussex Kent in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

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WordNet
brook

n. a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer" [syn: creek]

brook

v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, abide, suffer, put up]

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Gazetteer
Brook, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 1062
Housing Units (2000): 423
Land area (2000): 0.660769 sq. miles (1.711385 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009309 sq. miles (0.024109 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.670078 sq. miles (1.735494 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07966
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.866026 N, 87.365812 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47922
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Brook, IN
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Wikipedia
Brook

A brook is a small stream or also a river.

Brook may also refer to:

Brook (surname)

Brook is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Abraham Brook (flourished 1789), English physicist and bookseller
  • Basil Brook (1576 – c. 1646), English ironmaster, see Basil Brooke (metallurgist)
  • Andrew Brook (born 1943), Canadian philosopher
  • Benjamin Brook (1776–1848), English nonconformist minister and religious historian
  • Charles Brook (philanthropist) (1814–1872), English philanthropist
  • Claudio Brook (1927–1995), Mexican actor
  • Clive Brook (1887–1974), English actor
  • David Brook (disambiguation)
  • Eric Brook (1907–1965), English footballer
  • Faith Brook (1922–2012), English actress
  • Holly Brook (born 1986), American singer and songwriter
  • Jayne Brook (born 1962), American actress
  • Kelly Brook (born 1979), English model
  • Michael Brook (born 1951), Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer
  • Norman Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook
  • Peter Brook (born 1925), English theatre and film director and innovator
  • Rhidian Brook (born 1964), British novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster
  • Richard Brook (chief executive), English executive
  • Timothy Brook (historian) (born 1951), Canadian historian
  • Tom Brook (born 1953), BBC World presenter
  • William Broke or Brook, English 16th-century college and university head
  • Yaron Brook
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Usage examples of "brook".

Doctor Brooks to watch Cole closely, and the younger man to fix Magruder with an accusative glare.

At the end of the chief thoroughfare flowed a deep and rapid brook, an affluent of the Coango, in the dry bed of which the royal grave was to be formed.

Cermak Road into the affluent sprawl of Oak Brook and wound through the side streets until he saw the convenience store on his right.

Livingston told us Alanna Brooks was a bankable star who could be guaranteed to pull the fans.

Wicker and Brooks had already arrived at Le Bearn and had planted several miniaturized cameras and listening devices in the bar, restaurant, and bathroom.

An old gray house, surrounded by willows, in a blossomy brook valley, looked more promising, but did not seem quite the thing either.

Drifts of mist obscured it, and there were formless dark patches and pale blotches upon the night, and here and there a brook crawled across the blackness.

Threading the briery dell, and following the brook that prattled down the steep slope, I climbed the hill which directly overhangs the hamlet.

That would give analysts a fertile field to investigate, as fertile as the fields covered in the novels by New Zealand author Alan Brooker, who has joined the Amber Quill Press stable after some frustrating experiences with publishers in his own country and in the USA.

I went along with Gran on the Monday, not only to put Henry Brooker in charge but also to introduce your new son-in-law to the shop.

Then she went into the office where Henry Brooker was standing behind the desk.

Three months later Lizzie married Henry Brooker, and Peggy and Andrew moved into the big house.

But there he paused for a moment and looked back around the room, and only then did it really register that, as Brooker had said, he had been a fool: he should never have kept any receipts.

God, and Brooker had two Fusilier Companies following him, and Sharpe watched as a third Company set out for the Convent and he began to relax.

Four Captains, including Brooker and Cross, and two Lieutenants including Harry Price.