Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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- IPA: /ˈɹʌbə(ɹ)/
- IPA: [ˈɹɐbə(ɹ)]
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Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Käännös | Konteksti |
|---|
| Substantiivit |
| 1. | | arkikielessä |
| 2. | | slangi, amerikanenglanti |
| 3. | | |
| 4. | | |
| 5. | | |
| 6. | | amerikanenglanti |
| 7. | | slangi |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (uncountable, countable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.
- (sports) 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:
- (uncountable, countable) Natural rubber or any of various synthetic materials with similar properties as natural rubber.
- 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).
- An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
- (countable, Australia, India, Brunei, New Zealand, UK) An eraser.
- (sports, Canada, US) A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
- (countable, Canada, US, slang) A condom, especially an external condom.
- (countable) Someone or something which rubs.
- The game of rubber bridge.
- 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.
- (historical) The cushion of an electric machine.
- (countable, baseball) The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
- (Canada, US, in the plural) Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
- (uncountable, slang) Tires, particularly racing tires.
- (slang, dated) A hardship or misfortune.
Verbi
- (telephony) To eavesdrop on a telephone call
- (slang) To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.
Adjektiivi
- (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
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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