brush vs crease

crease vs brush

brush and crease both are nouns.

brush and crease both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brush	Yes	No	Yes	No
crease	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, crease is a hyponym of brush; that is, crease is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than brush:

brush: touch lightly and briefly
crease: scrape gently

Other hyponyms of brush include graze, rake, flick.

brush (noun)	crease (noun)
a minor short-term fight	a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
the act of brushing your hair	a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
the act of brushing your teeth	an angular or rounded shape made by folding
contact with something dangerous or undesirable
a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
momentary contact
a dense growth of bushes

brush (verb)	crease (verb)
remove with or as if with a brush	become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
touch lightly and briefly	make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic
rub with a brush, or as if with a brush	make wrinkled or creased
clean with a brush	scrape gently
cover by brushing
sweep across or over

Difference between brush and crease

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