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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brute
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brute strength (=physical strength rather than intelligence or careful thinking)
▪ There is more to wrestling than brute strength. Tactics are important too.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
force
▪ With brute force techniques ... they do achieve about the same end result as we do with much more sophisticated techniques.
▪ Was brute force and intimidation all they knew?
▪ In the analogue world, the reshaping of a page of information or a physical object requires some exercise of brute force.
▪ In the short term this brute force approach appears to be the best method of incorporating linguistic knowledge into computers.
▪ Lucker opens a case with brute force, sending unprocessed film rolling everywhere.
▪ Wado employs very light and fast techniques, preferring evasion to meeting brute force head on.
▪ The use of brute force for righteous ends appeals strongly to rap's adolescent male following, of course.
▪ With its tendency to glorify brute force it outrages moral standards and inflames the passions.
strength
▪ And let's not limit the language to pictures of thunder and brute strength.
▪ Henry Cooper used brute strength to promote after-shave.
▪ Keith believes that stamina, not brute strength, is the real key to nude mud wrestling.
▪ Majestic grace is matched with brute strength ... Each horse is hand-picked for its temperament and skill.
▪ By sheer brute strength and blind defiance of the laws of gravity he almost reached the top of the incline.
▪ It's not just boxing and brute strength you've got to do your homework.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Et tu, Brute?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a drunken brute
▪ Milly had a husband -- a great brute of a man who knocked her about.
▪ She spun round and screamed, "Leave him alone, you brute!''
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He looked at her white face and the dark fear in her eyes and felt a brute.
▪ It was therefore with a fit companion that I tackled the brute for a fourth attempt.
▪ Nomatterhow he had changed - if indeed he had changed - that man had once been a sadistic brute.
▪ She had a husband, a great brawny brute of an ex R.A.F. pilot who knocked her about.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
force
▪ Instead of brute force, the clever approach would be to attack the weakest point.
▪ Even his strong-man routine seems devoid of any intelligence or style and focuses, instead, upon brute force and muscle.
▪ Their only ultimate recourse is to deal with each other by brute force.
▪ Teravainen belonged to the brute force school; off the tee, he was as long as anybody.
▪ By brute force they began to pull the raft sideways away from the danger.
strength
▪ But like men, chimps do not rise entirely on brute strength.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it is also a story of brute resolve and drive, and courage at a crunch.
▪ But like men, chimps do not rise entirely on brute strength.
▪ Even his strong-man routine seems devoid of any intelligence or style and focuses, instead, upon brute force and muscle.
▪ For him, the whale was a brute beast which provided the source of his income.
▪ Instead of brute force, the clever approach would be to attack the weakest point.
▪ Low, relentless, brute power.
▪ The brute reality is that there is no political will for a repeat military operation to finish the job.
▪ What they see is the brute fact of several thousand uncounted votes that would have made a difference.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brute

Brute \Brute\, n.

  1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

    Brutes may be considered as either a["e]rial, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious.
    --Locke.

  2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

    An ill-natured brute of a husband.
    --Franklin.

    Syn: See Beast.

Brute

Brute \Brute\, v. t. [For bruit.] To report; to bruit. [Obs.]

Brute

Brute \Brute\, a. [F. brut, nasc., brute, fem., raw, rough, rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp. bruto.]

  1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

  2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.

    A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason.
    --Milton.

  3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
    --Macaulay.

    The influence of capital and mere brute labor.
    --Playfair.

  4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.

    A great brute farmer from Liddesdale.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]

    brute force, The application of predominantly physical effort to achieve a goal that could be accomplished with less effort if more carefully considered. Figuratively, repetitive or strenuous application of an obvious or simple tactic, as contrasted with a more clever stratagem achieving the same goal with less effort; -- as, the first prime numbers were discovered by the brute force repetition of the Sieve of Eratosthenes.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brute

early 15c., "of or belonging to animals," from Middle French brut "coarse, brutal, raw, crude," from Latin brutus "heavy, dull, stupid," an Oscan word, from PIE root *gwere- (2) "heavy" (see grave (adj.)). Before reaching English the meaning expanded to "of the lower animals." Used of human beings from 1530s.

brute

1610s, from brute (adj.).

Wiktionary
brute

  1. 1 Without reason or intelligence (of animals). (from 15th c.) 2 Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). (from 16th c.) 3 Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. (from 16th c.) 4 crude, unpolished. (from 17th c.) 5 Strong, blunt, and spontaneous. 6 Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless. n. 1 (context now archaic English) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. (from 17th c.) 2 A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. (from 17th c.) 3 (context archaic slang UK Cambridge University English) One who has not yet matriculated. v

  2. (obsolete spelling of bruit English)

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WordNet
brute

  1. adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish]

  2. n. a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, wildcat]

  3. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna]

Wikipedia
Brute

Brute or The Brute may refer to:

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.

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 Earth version of Mister Fantastic who became a member of the Frightful Four on True Earth
    • Brute, one of the aliases of Ralphie Hutchins, a character from She-Hulk
  • DC Comics:
    • Brute, a soldier character in the series Hunter's Hellcats
    • Brute (Sandman), a character in the series The Sandman
    • Brute, an antagonist who has appeared in Superman comics arresting him for the Tribunal Planet. He is the brother of Mope
    • Brute, a villain and a member of the Extremists
  • Brute (Atlas/Seaboard), a Hulk-like character from former Marvel Comics publisher Martin Goodman's Atlas/Seaboard Comics
  • Brute, an Image Comics character from Savage Dragon and a member of the Vicious Circle
Brute (Reed Richards)

Brute is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is Counter-Earth's version of Mister Fantastic.

Brute (band)

Brute (stylized brute.) was a side project band by guitarist Vic Chesnutt and the members of Widespread Panic.

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Usage examples of "brute".

North, aye, North, through a land accurst, shunned by the scouring brutes, And all I heard was my own harsh word and the whine of the malamutes, Till at last I came to a cabin squat, built in the side of a hill, And I burst in the door, and there on the floor, frozen to death, lay Bill.

The anthropocentric illusion rebelled against the word of Darwin, accusing him of lowering the human life to the level of the dirt or of the brute.

Thoth missiles depended on a direct line of sight communication, and employed an autocorrelation system that was nearly impossible to jam, even with brute force.

The basto is an ill tempered, omnivorous brute, always looking for trouble.

And de Batz knew that even with millions or countless money at his command he could not purchase from this carnivorous brute the life and liberty of the son of King Louis.

My instructions to the captain were attended to with the most perfect accuracy, for scarcely had my foot indented the sand when the four sixpounders of the brigantine quite gravely rolled out their brute thunder.

My instructions to the captain were attended to with the most perfect accuracy, for scarcely had my foot indented the sand when the four six-pounders of the brigantine quite gravely rolled out their brute thunder.

He carried a bow, and tinder, and sharp steel, small precautions that counted in a Skyshiel gale, when cloud and relentless snowfall mantled the high peaks, and strength and experience lent no guarantee in the brute fight to maintain survival.

Jieret rested the arrow across his bent knees, then mustered the brute will to survey the landscape before him.

George Tregaskis, who was thrown from his horse out mustering when the clumsy brute put his foot in a hole?

Natural overgrowths they lop, Yet from nature neither swerves, Trained or savage: for this cause: Of our Earth they ply the laws, Have in Earth their feeding root, Mind of man and bent of brute.

The brute repose of Nature, the passionate cunning of man, the strongest of earthly metals, the wierdest of earthly elements, the unconquerable iron subdued by its only conqueror, the wheel and the ploughshare, the sword and the steam-hammer, the arraying of armies and the whole legend of arms, all these things are written, briefly indeed, but quite legibly, on the visiting-card of Mr.

Controller of Love or Hate, this science can at pleasure confer on human hearts Paradise or Hell: it disposes at will of all forms, and distributes beauty or deformity as it pleases: it changes in turn, with the rod of Circe, men into brutes and animals into men: it even disposes of Life or of Death, and can bestow on its adepts riches by the transmutation of metals, and immortality by its quintessence and elixir, compounded of gold and light.

The prisoners and the savage brutes rested in their chains by the opposite wall eyeing me with varying expressions of curiosity, sullen rage, surprise, and hope.

You are much too inclined to find excuses for scrubs, Stephen: you preserved that ill-conditioned brute Scriven from the gallows, nourished him in your bosom, gave him your countenance, and who paid for it?