rubとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹʌb/, [ɹɐb], enPR: rŭb
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹʌb/, enPR: rŭb
• 韻: -ʌb

名詞

rub (複数形 rubs)

1. An act of rubbing.

   Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out

2. A difficulty or problem.

   Therein lies the rub.

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark III.i.71-75

     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

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 16

     ...the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub.

3. In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
4. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.

   a heat rub intended for muscular strains

   1. A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.

動詞

rub (三人称単数 現在形 rubs, 現在分詞 rubbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 rubbed)

1. (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

   I rubbed the cloth over the glass.‎

   The cat rubbed itself against my leg.‎

   I rubbed my hands together for warmth.‎

2. (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).

   I rubbed the glass with the cloth.‎

   • Sir T. Elyot

     It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.

3. (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.

   My shoes are beginning to rub.‎

4. (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.

   meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing

   • Milton

     The smoothed plank, […] / New rubbed with balm.

5. (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.

   to rub through woods, as huntsmen‎

6. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.

   to rub up silver

   • South

     The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.

7. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
   • Shakespeare

     'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.

派生語

外部リンク

• rub in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• rub in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• rub at OneLook Dictionary Search

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