scrub
adjetivosubstantivoverbosubstantivocorrente nos diálogos
- Irlanda//skɹʊb//
- //skɹʌb//
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
adjetivo
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obsoletoMean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
Etimologia
Late Middle English shrobbe in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, from Old English scrybb. Doublet of shrub.
substantivo
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A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
oak scrub
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
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Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
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One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
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One who labors hard and lives meanly.
A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind.
We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
I daresay we can find one of those devoted, hard-working little scrubs who are glad to come for nothing and live on the table leavings.
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calãoOne who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub!
A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly And is also known as a buster Always talkin' about what he wants And just sits on his broke ass […]
You triflin', good-for-nothin' type of brother Silly me, why haven't I found another? A baller, when times get hard I need someone to help me out Instead of a scrub like you who don't know what a man's about
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calãoOne not on the first team of players; a substitute.
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calãoA player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
verbo
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To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
to scrub a floor
to scrub your fingernails
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To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
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figuradoTo be diligent and penurious
to scrub hard for a living
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To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.
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To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.
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To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
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To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
Etimologia
From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).
substantivo
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An instance of scrubbing.
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A cancellation.
Unacceptable winds aloft caused four scrubs and one hold; adverse weather caused a scrub; […]
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A worn-out brush.
A scrub [broom worn out] Scopa detrita.
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One who scrubs.
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That which scrubs.
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That which scrubs. An exfoliant for the body.
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Clothing worn while performing surgery.
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Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
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obsoletoInformal attire or dress code; morning dress
The third, which was as homely as its name, and which she reserved for scouring the country and such like rough usage in quite private rural life, was her "Scrub."
For one of Lucia's quaint ideas was to divide dresses into three classes, "Hightum," "Tightum" and "Scrub."
Formas
- plural
- scrubs
- comparativo
- more scrub
- superlativo
- most scrub
- pretérito
- scrubbed
- particípio passado
- scrubbed
- gerúndio
- scrubbing
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- scrubs
scrub · A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
scrubbed · With hands washed according to operating room protocol and…scrubbing · The action of the verb to scrubscrubs · Clothing worn while performing surgery.