broom

balai

Outil de nettoyage à long manche et à poils rigides, servant à balayer le sol.

En anglais simple : A cleaning tool with a long handle and stiff hairs, used to sweep floors.

• Get the broom, please.
• She swept the kitchen with a broom.
• The old brooms were stored behind the door.

Synonymes : sweeping brush

Expressions courantes : use a broom, broom handle, wooden broom

balayer

Nettoyer une surface en repoussant la poussière ou les saletés avec un balai.

En anglais simple : To clean a surface by pushing dust or dirt away with a sweeping tool.

• He broomed the floor.
• She broomed the leaves off the path.
• Please broom away the dust before we paint.

Comment l'utiliser : broom something off something (He broomed the sand off the steps.)

Synonymes : sweep

Expressions courantes : broom the floor, broom something away, broom something off