make sth easy to see
or understand 1st & tB ; $ :
That dress really brings out the colour of your eyes. IP# 3
to produce sth; to publish sth ,7®: The band have just brought out
their second
album. &yh5fcPAHlJ®ltfcb 7
.bring sb 'out in sth to make
sb’s skin be covered in spots, etc. # ( ) : The
heat brought him out
in a rash, A#####
7^7,
.bring sb 'round (BrE) (NAmE .bring sb a round) (also .bring sb 'to) to make sb who is
unconscious become conscious again ##§! .bring sb 'round (to ... ) (BrE) (NAmE .bring sb a'round) to bring sb to
sb’s house ^ 7A7 n: Bring the family round one evening; we’d love to meet
them. M
fife CL .bring sb
'round (to sth) (BrE!) (NAmE .bring sb
a'round) to persuade sb to agree to sth Al^ll
( ^ ^ ) : He didn’t like the plan at first,
but we
managed to
bring him round. fife M fJ) # 71? ifC
& 7 if $J, .bring sth'round to
sth (BrE) (NAmE .bring sth a'round to sth) to
direct a conversation to a particular subject )
# 0 • -
.bring sb 'to = bring sb round .bring A and B to'gether to help two people
or groups to end a disagreement A W ffl; # )K. A fB#: The
loss of their son
brought the two of them together. ^ 7 #MMA16iQ7£?o
.bring sb~'up 1 [often passive]
to care for a child, teaching him or her how to behave, etc. ft#; #W; Ifc# ETH1 raise: She brought up five children. MftW 7 0 He was brought up by his aunt.
jifejt &
% ^ A o o a well/badly brought up child
A tfc # / 4fe3:ifc#l$f£7 0 [+ to inf] They were brought up to (=
taught as children to) respect authority, life ill 1$ ft $L o[+N]J was brought up a
Catholic.
& 7
tfc ^ ft# J& A A 7 ifc o
— related noun up
bringing 2 (law
W) to make sb appear for trial Jl
3?; 7; #ifl: He was brought up on a charge of
drunken driving. ItfeSMJsJF^ffl^fJl^iRo .bring sth~‘up 1 to mention a
subject or start to talk about it ( ii -t&#f ) H771 raise: Bring it up at the meeting.
ip A 7 ft ± II7 o 2 (BrE) to vomit ugo±; to
bring up your lunch IE 7& A 3 to make
sth appear on a computer screen ;
IHifi-: Click
with the right mouse
button to bring up a new menu. ip.
§r^#-0 .bring sb'up against sth to force sb to
know about sth and have to deal with it ( {j£ )
Bl(&, HD# Working in the slums brought her up against the realities of
poverty. 7
bring-and- buy sale noun (BrE) a sale,
usually for charity, at which people bring things for sale and buy those
brought by others ( jiMt/ifo ) XM
brin-jal /'brmd3l/ noun [C, U] (IndE, SAfrE) an aubergine/ eggplant (= a large
vegetable with shiny dark purple skin and soft white flesh) ^p7
brink /brirjk/ noun [sing.] 1 the ~ (of sth) if you are on the
brink of sth, you are almost in a very new, dangerous or exciting situation (
HHHJ,
on the brink of
collapse/war/death/disaster M7D7§/
Sc 7/ ftt: / A
$£ o Scientists are on the brink of making a major
new discovery. #7lctgfttJ[77§rWllA:£tSlo 0 He’s
pulled the company back from the brink (= he has saved it from disaster),
life # A "Bl ®
/E 0 7 o 2 (literary) the
extreme edge of land, for example at the top of a cliff or by a river ( iliftM, the
brink
of the precipice ITTTTn see teeter
brink-man-ship /'brirjkmanjip/
(NAmE also brinks- man-ship /'brirjks-/)
noun [U] the activity, especially in politics, of getting
into a situation that could be very dangerous in order to frighten people and
make them do what you want m,
feiiifFHIIIAE )
briny /'brami/ adj. (of water A)
containing a lot of salt PTHl salty — see also brine