rub

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ɹʌb/    /ɹʌb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of rubbing.
    — Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.
  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
  3. A quip or sarcastic remark. archaic
  4. In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
  5. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
    — a heat rub intended for muscular strains
  6. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.; A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
  7. A loan. UK,slang
动词 v.
  1. To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction. transitive
    — I rubbed the cloth over the glass.
  2. To be rubbed against something. intransitive
    — My shoes are beginning to rub.
  3. To spread a substance thinly over; to smear. transitive
    — meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
  4. To move or pass with difficulty. dated
    — to rub through woods, as huntsmen
  5. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
    — to rub up silver
  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. To touch the jack with the bowl. transitive

词形变化

rubs plural rubs present,singular,third-person rubbing participle,present rubbed participle,past rubbed past

词源

词源 1
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”)).
词源 2
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”)).
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