scrub
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
games
gaming
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Late Middle English in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, possibly under Old Norse influence.
Inflected forms:
form: scrubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
gloss: One who labors hard and lives meanly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
examples: 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.
gloss: One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
slang
examples: 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
gloss: One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
gloss: A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
derogatory
slang
gloss: 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
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to scrub a floor
to scrub your fingernails
gloss: To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To be diligent and penurious
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: to scrub hard for a living
gloss: To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.
gloss: To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
pos: verb
Derived words: brigalow scrub
Gum Scrub
scrubbable
scrub baseball
scrub bird
scrub board
scrub brush
scrubby
scrub dasher
scrub game
scrub gun
scrub hare
scrub jay
scrubland
scrub oak
scrub pine
scrub race
scrub rider
scrub robin
scrub turkey
scrub turpentine
scrub typhus
scrub wallaby
streaked scrub warbler
trail ridge scrub grasshopper
vine scrub
Wormwood Scrubs
scrubbed
scrubber
scrubbing
scrub down
scrub in
scrub off
scrub out
scrub up
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: дребосък
roman: drebosǎk
lang: Czech
word: zakrslík
lang: Russian
word: замо́рыш
roman: zamóryš