rubber

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.
2. isim Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber.
3. isim An eraser.

   “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.”

4. isim A condom, especially an external condom.

   “And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket”

5. isim Someone or something which rubs.

   “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.”

6. isim One who rubs down horses.
7. isim One who practises massage.

   “I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house”

8. isim A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
9. isim An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
10. isim The cushion of an electric machine.
11. isim The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.

    “Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.”

12. isim Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.

    “Johnny, don't forget your rubbers today.”

13. isim Tires, particularly racing tires.

    “Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.”

14. isim A hardship or misfortune.

    “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.”

15. sıfat Not covered by funds on account.
16. isim 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.”

17. isim 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.”

18. isim A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
19. isim 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."”

20. fiil 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 ...”

21. fiil To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.

    “Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming.”