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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),… … Wikipedia
Brute Force (book) — Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War is a book by historian John Ellis which concludes that the Allied Forces won World War II not by the skill of their leaders, war planners and commanders in the field, but by brute… … Wikipedia
brute — [bro͞ot] adj. [ME & OFr brut < L brutus, heavy, dull, irrational, via Osco Umb < IE base * gwer , heavy > Gr barys, L gravis] 1. lacking the ability to reason [a brute beast] 2. having no consciousness or feelings; insensate [the brute… … English World dictionary
brute — [adj] very strong; animal like animal, beastly, bestial, bodily, carnal, feral, ferine, fleshly, instinctive, mindless, physical, senseless, swinish, unthinking; concepts 489,540 Ant. gentle, mild, weak brute [n] barbarian animal, beast, cannibal … New thesaurus
brute — ► NOUN 1) a violent or savage person or animal. 2) informal a cruel or insensitive person. ► ADJECTIVE 1) unreasoning and animal like. 2) merely physical. 3) harsh or inescapable. DERIVATIVES … English terms dictionary
Brute-force attack — The EFF s US$250,000 DES cracking machine contained over 1,800 custom chips and could brute force a DES key in a matter of days. The photograph shows a DES Cracker circuit board fitted with 32 Deep Crack chips and some control chips. In… … Wikipedia
Brute (Reed Richards) — Superherobox| caption= comic color=background:#ff8080 character name=Brute real name=Reed Richards species= publisher=Marvel Comics debut= Marvel Premiere #2 (May 1972) creators= Roy Thomas and Gil Kane alliance color=background:#c0c0ff status=… … Wikipedia
Brute Force (film) — Infobox Film name = Brute Force caption = lobby card image size = 225px director = Jules Dassin producer = Mark Hellinger writer = Screenplay: Richard Brooks Story: Robert Patterson starring = Burt Lancaster Hume Cronyn Charles Bickford music =… … Wikipedia
brute — brute1 [ brut ] noun count 1. ) a strong man who acts in a cruel or violent way: a vicious brute a ) a big man who looks strong: a big handsome brute of a man 2. ) a big strong animal a ) an animal that you do not like or that frightens you brute … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
brute — I UK [bruːt] / US [brut] noun [countable] Word forms brute : singular brute plural brutes 1) a) a strong man who acts in a cruel or violent way a vicious brute b) a big man who looks strong a big handsome brute of a man 2) a) a big strong animal… … English dictionary
