Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - rubber
Rubber
rubber
1. n. 1 a tough elastic polymeric substance made from the latex of plants or synthetically. 2 esp. Brit. a piece of this or another substance for erasing pencil or ink marks. 3 colloq. a condom. 4 (in pl.) US galoshes. 5 a person who rubs; a masseur or masseuse. 6 a an implement used for rubbing. b part of a machine operating by rubbing. Phrases and idioms rubber band a loop of rubber for holding papers etc. together. rubber plant 1 an evergreen plant, Ficus elastica, with dark-green shiny leaves, often cultivated as a house-plant. 2 (also rubber tree) any of various tropical trees yielding latex, esp. Hevea brasiliensis. rubber solution a liquid drying to a rubber-like material, used esp. as an adhesive in mending rubber articles. rubber stamp 1 a device for inking and imprinting on a surface. 2 a a person who mechanically copies or agrees to others' actions. b an indication of such agreement. rubber-stamp v.tr. approve automatically without proper consideration. Derivatives rubbery adj. rubberiness n. Etymology: RUB(1) + -ER(1), from its early use to rub out pencil marks 2. n. 1 a match of three or five successive games between the same sides or persons at whist, bridge, cricket, lawn tennis, etc. 2 (prec. by the) a the act of winning two games in a rubber. b a third game when each side has won one. Etymology: orig. unkn.: used as a term in bowls from c. 1600
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I. noun Date: 1536 1. one that rubs, an instrument or object (as a ~ eraser) used in rubbing, polishing, scraping, or cleaning, something that prevents rubbing or chafing, 2. from its use in erasers] an elastic substance that is obtained by coagulating the milky juice of any of various tropical plants (as of the genera Hevea and Ficus), is essentially a polymer of isoprene, and is prepared as sheets and then dried, any of various synthetic ~like substances, natural or synthetic ~ modified by chemical treatment to increase its useful properties (as toughness and resistance to wear) and used especially in tires, electrical insulation, and waterproof materials, something made of or resembling ~: as, a ~ overshoe, b. a ~ tire, the set of tires on a vehicle, a rectangular slab of white ~ in the middle of a baseball infield on which a pitcher stands while pitching, condom 1, ~ adjective II. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1599 a contest consisting of an odd number of games won by the side that takes a majority (as two out of three), an odd game played to determine the winner of a tie ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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