Rub
To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper.
To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.
To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body.
To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver.
To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.
To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.
To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.
The act of rubbing; friction.
That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.
Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness.
Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.
Imperfection; failing; fault.
A chance.
A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone.
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Rub Quotations
I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
Angelina Jolie
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.
Katy Perry
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
Grover Cleveland
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Chuck Close
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Virgil
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Virgil
In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
Bryant H. McGill
It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
Richard Russo
A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.
Norman Rockwell
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Roland Barthes
If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
Christopher Meloni
You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.
James Levine
I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
Janet Suzman
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
Donald Cargill
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Annette Bening
The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.
Paul Guilfoyle
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
Samuel Hoffenstein
All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
Sebastian Coe
Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
Damon Runyon
In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.
Marie Dressler
When you've got your man down, rub him out.
Rod Laver
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Rub Translations
rub in Afrikaans is vryf
rub in Danish is gnide
rub in Dutch is aanstrijken, uitwrijven, wrijven
rub in French is frottez, frotter, frottent, frottons, frottage
rub in German is reiben, reiben, einreiben
rub in Italian is fregare
rub in Spanish is refregar, friccionar
rub in Swedish is gnugga, frottera, gnida
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