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rubber

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Word definitions for rubber in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. latex from trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) [syn: India rubber , gum elastic , caoutchouc ] an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil [syn: rubber ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene. 2 (context uncountable countable English) synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber. 3 (context ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
' Rubber ' is a 1936 Dutch film directed by Johan De Meester and Gerard Rutten. It tells the story of Dutch newlyweds trying to adjust to a difficult life on a Sumatran plantation. The majority of the film is believed to be lost; a 63-minute fragment remains ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rubber \Rub"ber\, n. One who, or that which, rubs. Specifically: An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning. A coarse file, or the rough part of a file. A whetstone; a rubstone. An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc or a synthetic rubber[4]. ...

Usage examples of rubber.

Sachs dressed in the white Tyvek suit and accessorized with rubber bands around her feet.

It is also suggested that the fingerprint examiner wear rubber gloves when using acetone, benzine, xylene, formaldehyde, potassium hydroxide, or sodium hydroxide.

My excellent friend proceeded on the good old lines of compensation advocacy with the same comfortable routine that one plays the old family rubber of threepenny points.

Ad Lib club, 132-4, 139 Adams, John and Marina, 126, 254 Aitken, Jonathan, 228 Albufeira, Portugal, 204 album sleeve designs, 333-48, 500-506, albums, by the Beach Boys, 280-81 by the Beatles Abbey Road, 550-59, 565 Beatles: Love Songs, Beatles for Sale, 38, 173 Let It Be, 470, 534-9, 549-51, 575, 578 Magical Mystery Tour, Please Please Me, 93, 95, 153, 583 Revolver, 190, 268, 281, 290-92 Rubber Soul, 268, 278, 290 Sgt.

Rubber Bible to hand as the fearless author juggles with triple points or the properties of ammonial ice eutectics.

Cave-maker, Wu thought, hearing the same sound, thinking the stream might be traveling upward, carving out an embryonic cave, a living structure with a cycle that ends in death, wondering how much trouble it would be to order a rubber dinghy, neoprene wet suit, aqualung and waterproof spotlight, dismissing the idea on the grounds he would not be here long enough to see it through.

Rigged to an ECUan environmental-control unitthat Rhyme could manipulate with his one working finger, the device used a rubber armature to turn pages of books.

Rhyme could manipulate with his one working finger, the device used a rubber armature to turn pages of books.

The points were covered in a coating of what looked like thick rubber, which muted the effect of the powerful spring that the Armorer had triggered.

At last he gripped it and twisted asbestos and rubber into one tight mass, which he held firmly with both hands.

All bendy rubber and portly and scowling, he had the word CREW painted in large letters across his belly.

On the metalled road the rubbered tyres spun silently, and only the flying hoofs clattered and soon they had left the made road and turned on to the hard-beaten track that led to Billabong, where progress was even smoother.

Wu cut along the seam of the rubber ball with his penknife, then pocketed one half of the ball and gave the other half to Softly, who began to warm up, being the bunger, or thrower.

The two ancient ladies, a Russian princess and the heiress to a rubber fortune, clients of the palazzo, have exited the elevator with them and wandered confusedly off into the night, somewhat shackled by their drawers, and now two soft splashes are heard at the far end of the Sotoportego del Capello where the gondolas dock at night.

At Trouville, for instance, they had laid in dozens of the brilliant rubber casquettes he liked to wear when he went swimming.