rub
nomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ɹʌb//
- Irlande//ɹʊb//
An act of rubbing.
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An act of rubbing.
Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.
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A difficulty or problem.
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
[…] 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.
'My dear Devereux, I say, you mustn't talk in that wild way. You—you talk like a ruined man!' 'And I so comfortable!' 'Why, to be sure, Dick, you have had some little rubs, and, maybe, your follies and your vexations; but, hang it, you are young; you can't get experience—at least, so I've found it—without paying for it. […]'
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archaïqueA quip or sarcastic remark.
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In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
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Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
a heat rub intended for muscular strains
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Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing. A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
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argotA loan.
Étymologie
Inherited from Middle English rubben, of unknown origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną, related to *reufaną (“to tear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rubje (“to rub, scrape”), German Low German rubben (“to rub”), Low German rubblig (“rough, uneven”), Dutch robben, rubben (“to rub smooth; scrape; scrub”), Danish rubbe (“to rub, scrub”), Icelandic and Norwegian rubba (“to scrape”). More at reave. Compare typologically Latin fricō < friō < Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (whence also Russian брить (britʹ, “to shave”)).
verbe
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To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
I rubbed the cloth over the glass.
The cat rubbed itself against my leg.
I rubbed my hands together for warmth.
I couldn't rub the stain from the tablecloth.
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To be rubbed against something.
My shoes are beginning to rub.
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To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
The smoothed plank, […] / New rubbed with balm.
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vieilliTo move or pass with difficulty.
to rub through woods, as huntsmen
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To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
to rub up silver
The whole business of our redemption is, in short, only to rub over the defaced copy of the creation
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To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
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To touch the jack with the bowl.
Formes
- pluriel
- rubs
- passé
- rubbed
- participe passé
- rubbed
- participe présent
- rubbing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- rubs