Meaning of rubber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.
   countable, uncountable, usually
2. In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:
3. 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).
4. Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene
5. Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber.
   countable, uncountable, usually
6. An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
7. Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber
8. An eraser.
   Australia, Brunei, India, New-Zealand, UK, countable, usually
9. A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
   Canada, US
10. An eraser
11. A condom, especially an external condom.
    Canada, US, countable, slang, usually
12. The game of rubber bridge.
13. A condom, especially an external condom
14. Someone or something which rubs.
    countable, usually
15. Someone or something which rubs. One who rubs down horses. One who practises massage. A coarse towel for rubbing the body. An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc
16. One who rubs down horses.
    countable, uncountable, usually
17. One who practises massage.
    countable, uncountable, usually
18. A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
    countable, uncountable, usually
19. An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
    countable, uncountable, usually
20. The cushion of an electric machine.
    historical, uncountable, usually
21. The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
    countable, usually
22. Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
    Canada, US, in-plural, uncountable, usually
23. Tires, particularly racing tires.
    slang, uncountable, usually
24. A hardship or misfortune.
    dated, slang, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Drawing materials, he thought, I used to love drawing as a lad. I can afford some plain paper and pencils, surely? And a rubber, too. He smiled at the memory of an elderly uncle, also fond of drawing, who′d always called rubbers ‘lead eaters’.”

“Stan stole a diary and some pens, pencils, ink and rubbers during his early days as a POW working on the Singapore docks.”

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

“Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up, just don't do it, OK, promise? OK, now everybody take some rubbers.”

“My daddy said "Treat young girls like your mother" / My momma said "Trust no hoe, use a rubber"”

“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.”

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

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

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

“He set aside his aunt’s counsel in regard to a better regimen, as well as her more specific hints, made in view of the near approach of rough weather, that he provide himself with rubbers and an umbrella, even if he would not hear of a rain-coat.”

“Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.”

“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.”

“'Twas a bit gone December, / As I well remember, / I met with a rubber, and got some advice; […]”

“They played, and Creed and his young partner won the first rubber, winning the two first games running.”

“[…] an old lady's innocent rubber.”

“Ladies matches shall consist of 6 rubbers. Each rubber shall consist of best of 3 games to 21 points.”

“Montreal’s Francoise Abanda lost the first rubber of the tie 6-2, 6-4 to Karolina Pliskova on Saturday”

“"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."”

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