rub

sostantivo

1. 1

   An act of rubbing.

   Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.

2. 2

   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. […]'

3. 3

   arcaicoA quip or sarcastic remark.

4. 4

   In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.

5. 5

   Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.

   a heat rub intended for muscular strains

6. 6

   Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing. A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.

7. 7

   gergoA loan.

verbo

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   To be rubbed against something.

   My shoes are beginning to rub.

3. 3

   To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.

   meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing

   The smoothed plank, […] / New rubbed with balm.

4. 4

   desuetoTo move or pass with difficulty.

   to rub through woods, as huntsmen

5. 5

   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

6. 6

   To hinder; to cross; to thwart.

   'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.

7. 7

   To touch the jack with the bowl.

Forme

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passato

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participio passato

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participio presente

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