rub
/rʌb/
verb
Ovmak, elinizi veya bir nesneyi bastırarak bir yüzeyde ileri geri hareket ettirmek
To move your hand or an object back and forth across a surface while pressing.
- She rubbed her tired eyes.
- He rubbed the stain with a cloth.
- The cat rubbed against my leg.
- Archaeologists must carefully rub away centuries of accumulated dirt from pottery fragments without damaging the underlying glaze.
- The laboratory technician learned to rub the glass slides gently with lens paper to avoid introducing scratches.
- Geologists often rub mineral samples against a porcelain streak plate to help identify their composition through color analysis.
noun
Bir şeyi ovma eylemi
The act of rubbing something.
- Give the table a good rub to remove the dirt.
- The dog enjoyed a belly rub.
nounliterary
Bir zorluk veya sorun
A difficulty or problem (usually in the phrase 'the rub').
- There's the rub: we don't have enough money.
- The plan sounds good, but here's the rub.