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WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
RUB; Rubs; Rubbed; Rub (disambiguation); Rubbing
Rub
·noun Imperfection; failing; fault.
II. Rub ·noun The act of rubbing; friction.
III. Rub ·noun A Chance.
IV. Rub ·noun Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.
V. Rub ·vt To spread a substance thinly over; to Smear.
VI. Rub ·noun Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness.
VIII. Rub ·noun A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone;
- called also rubstone.
X. Rub ·vi To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.
XI. Rub ·vt To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body.
XII. Rub ·vi To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to Grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.
XIII. Rub ·vt To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to Graze; to Chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.
XIV. Rub ·noun That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.
- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver.
XVI. Rub ·vt To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper.
rub
¦ verb (rubs, rubbing, rubbed)
1. apply firm pressure to the surface of, using a repeated back and forth motion.
move to and fro against a surface.
apply with a rubbing action: she rubbed some cream on her nose.
(rub something in/into/through) blend or mix ingredients together using a rubbing action: rub in the fat.
(rub something down) dry, smooth, or clean something by rubbing.
(rub something out) chiefly Brit. erase pencil marks with a rubber.
2. (rub off) be transferred by contact or association.
3. (rub along) Brit. informal cope or get along without undue difficulty.
4. reproduce the design of (a sepulchral brass or a stone) by rubbing paper laid on it with pencil or chalk.
5. Bowls (of a bowl) be slowed or diverted by the unevenness of the ground.
¦ noun
1. an act of rubbing.
2. an ointment designed to be rubbed on the skin.
3. (usu. the rub) the central or most important difficulty. [from Shakespeare's Hamlet (III. i. 65).]
4. Bowls an inequality of the ground impeding or diverting a bowl.
the diversion or hindering of a bowl by this.
Phrases
the rub of the green
1. Golf an accidental or unpredictable influence on the course or position of the ball.
2. good fortune.
rub one's hands rub one's hands together to show keen satisfaction.
rub it in (or rub someone's nose in something) informal emphatically draw someone's attention to an embarrassing fact.
rub noses rub one's nose against someone else's in greeting (especially as traditional among Maoris and some other peoples).
rub shoulders (or N. Amer. elbows) associate or come into contact.
rub someone (or Brit. rub someone up) the wrong way anger or irritate someone.
Origin
ME: perh. from Low Ger. rubben, of unknown ultimate origin.
rubbing
(rubbings)
1.
A rubbing is a picture that you make by putting a piece of paper over a carved surface and then rubbing wax or chalk over it.
...a brass rubbing.
N-COUNT: oft n N
2.
see also rub
Wikipedia
Rub
Rubbing (friction) is moving an object in contact with another object using pressure and friction
Rub, RUB or rubbing may also refer to:
Examples of use of rub
1. The rub is that sometimes, the prices detach from reality.
2. "Eventually the bones come together causing pain as they rub.
3. Stir in the suet and rub lightly with your fingertips.
4. Then came the rub: "Cramped for space?" a voiceover boomed.
5. Sometimes you just have to rub your eyes in disbelief.