rubber
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
telecommunications
telephony
Etymology: 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.
Base: rub
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: rubbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rubbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rubbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rubbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rubbered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: An eraser.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Brunei
India
New-Zealand
UK
countable
usually
examples: 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.
Drawing materials, he thought, I used to love drawing as a lad. I can afford some plain paper and pencils, surely? And a rubber, too. He smiled at the memory of an elderly uncle, also fond of drawing, who′d always called rubbers ‘lead eaters’.
Stan stole a diary and some pens, pencils, ink and rubbers during his early days as a POW working on the Singapore docks.
gloss: A condom, especially an external condom.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
slang
usually
examples: And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket
Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up, just don't do it, OK, promise? OK, now everybody take some rubbers.
My daddy said "Treat young girls like your mother" / My momma said "Trust no hoe, use a rubber"
gloss: Someone or something which rubs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: Someone or something which rubs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: Someone or something which rubs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house
gloss: Someone or something which rubs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: Someone or something which rubs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: The cushion of an electric machine.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
gloss: The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.
gloss: Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
in-plural
uncountable
usually
examples: Johnny, don't forget your rubbers today.
He set aside his aunt’s counsel in regard to a better regimen, as well as her more specific hints, made in view of the near approach of rough weather, that he provide himself with rubbers and an umbrella, even if he would not hear of a rain-coat.
gloss: Tires, particularly racing tires.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.
gloss: A hardship or misfortune.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
'Twas a bit gone December, / As I well remember, / I met with a rubber, and got some advice; […]
gloss: Not covered by funds on account.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: To eavesdrop on a telephone call
pos: verb
examples: "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 ...
gloss: To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming.
Derived words: blue rubber
blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome
burn rubber
butyl rubber
cold rubber
crepe rubber
crumb rubber
cyclorubber
flubber
foam rubber
hard rubber
hog rubber
hog-rubber
I'm rubber and you're glue
india rubber
India rubber
lay rubber
metal rubber
methyl rubber
nanorubber
natural rubber
nitrile rubber
nonrubber
Panama rubber
Panama rubber tree
Pará rubber tree
peel rubber
putty rubber
rubber baby buggy bumper
rubber ball blast grenade
rubber band airplane
rubber band
rubber-band
rubber boa
rubber bullet
rubber cement
rubber check
rubber cheque
rubber chicken
rubber diaper
rubber duck debugging
rubber-ducked
rubber ducked
rubber ducking
rubber-ducking
rubber duck
rubber-duck
rubber ducky
rubber duckie
rubber eel
rubberer
rubber fig
rubberful
rubber gauge
rubberhead
rubber heels
rubber-hose cryptanalysis
rubber hose
rubber-hose
rubberise
rubberize
rubberish
rubberism
rubberist
rubberization
rubber johnny
rubber jungle
rubberless
rubberlike
rubber-necker
rubbernecking
rubberoid
rubberous
rubber panties
rubber pants
rubber plant
rubber policeman
rubber rabbitbrush
rubber ring
rubber room
rubber saw
rubber science
rubber shoe
rubber shoes
rubber stamp politics
rubber stamp
rubber-stamp
rubber tapper
rubber tramp
rubber tramping
rubber tree
rubber up
rubber vine
rubberwear
rubberwood
rubbery
silicone rubber
silicon rubber
the rubber hits the road
the rubber meets the road
toe the rubber
unsinkable rubber duck
up your nose with a rubber hose
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: hankaaja
lang: Marathi
word: चोळणारा
roman: coḷṇārā
lang: Marathi
word: चोळणारी
roman: coḷṇārī