Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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- IPA: /ˈɹʌbə(ɹ)/
- IPA: [ˈɹɐbə(ɹ)]
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Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
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| 2. | | slangi, amerikanenglanti |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (uncountable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
- (sports) A series of an odd number of games or matches of which a majority must be won (thus precluding a tie), especially a match consisting of the best of a series of three games in bridge or whist.
- (uncountable, countable) Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
- (sports) A game or match played to break a tie.
- (countable, UK) An eraser.
- The game of rubber bridge.
- (countable, North America, slang) A condom.
- (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (countable) Someone or something which rubs.
- (countable, baseball) The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
- (North America, in the plural) Water resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
- (uncountable, slang) Tires, particularly racing tires.
Verbit
- To eavesdrop on a telephone call
Esimerkit
- 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.
- 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.
- Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.
- Johnny, don't forget your rubbers today.
- Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.
- [...] an old lady's innocent rubber.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
- "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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