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Definition of 'rub'English
Noun
( en-noun)
An act of rubbing.
- Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
A difficulty or problem.
- Therein lies the rub .
* III.i.71-75
- To die, to sleep—/To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub !/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause
* , Episode 16
- ...the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub .
In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
Verb
To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
* |chapter=7
|title= The Mirror and the Lamp
|passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
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To rub something against (a second thing).
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* Sir T. Elyot
- It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
To be rubbed against something.
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To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
* Milton
- The smoothed plank, / New rubbed with balm.
(dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
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To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up'' or ''over .
- to rub up silver
* South
- The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.
To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
* Shakespeare
- 'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
Derived terms
* rubber
* rubbing
* rub elbows
* rub in
( rel-mid3)
* rub it in
* rub out
* rub off
* rub shoulders
( rel-mid3)
* rub up
* rub up on
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