rubber

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹʌbə/    美 /ˈɹʌbɚ/|/ˈɹɐbə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene. countable,uncountable,usually
  2. In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:; The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).
    — They played, and Creed and his young partner won the first rubber, winning the two first games running.
  3. Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber. countable,uncountable,usually
  4. In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:; An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
    — Ladies matches shall consist of 6 rubbers. Each rubber shall consist of best of 3 games to 21 points.
  5. An eraser. Australia,Brunei,India,New-Zealand,UK
    — For example, they may use paddle pop sticks, hand span, pencils, rubbers, mathematics equipment (i.e. base 10 material) or anything else the teacher can find to measure the lengths of nominated objects.
  6. A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie. Canada,US
  7. A condom, especially an external condom. Canada,US,countable,slang,usually
    — And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket
  8. The game of rubber bridge.
    — "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I have not had my rubber." "I think you will find that you will play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting."
  9. Someone or something which rubs. countable,usually
    — What perplexity plagues the chin-rubber in the foreground and what so discourages the man leaning on the lamp post? And to what doom is the large man at right moving? Photographer Cowherd has no answers.
  10. Someone or something which rubs.; One who rubs down horses. countable,uncountable,usually
  11. Someone or something which rubs.; One who practises massage. countable,uncountable,usually
    — I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house
  12. Someone or something which rubs.; A coarse towel for rubbing the body. countable,uncountable,usually
  13. Someone or something which rubs.; An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc. countable,uncountable,usually
  14. The cushion of an electric machine. historical,uncountable,usually
  15. The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch. countable,usually
    — Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.
  16. Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes. Canada,US,in-plural,uncountable,usually
    — Johnny, don't forget your rubbers today.
  17. Tires, particularly racing tires. slang,uncountable,usually
    — Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.
  18. A hardship or misfortune. dated,slang,uncountable,usually
    — The British barges, off New-London, sometimes meet with the rubbers. In an attack upon an armed smack, some days ago, they were beaten off, with the reported loss of 8 men killed.
动词 v.
  1. To eavesdrop on a telephone call
    — "There's a lot of nostalgia about the phone and how it was the way to get the local news," said Jane Beck of the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. One way was "rubbering," or listening in on a neighbor's conversations ...
  2. To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity. slang
    — Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming.
形容词 adj.
  1. Not covered by funds on account. slang

词形变化

rubbers plural rubbers plural rubbers present,singular,third-person rubbering participle,present rubbered participle,past rubbered past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From rub + -er.
The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not pertaining to rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from the name of the substance.
词源 2
Unknown.
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