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Rubber
Rubber Rub"ber, n.
1. One who, or that which, rubs. Specifically:
(a) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or
cleaning.
(b) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.
(c) A whetstone; a rubstone.
(d) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.
(e) The cushion of an electrical machine.
(f) One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish
bath.
(g) Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that
grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub. --Thackeray.
2. In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the
fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to
play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning
of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.
--Beaconsfield. ``A rubber of cribbage.' --Dickens.
3. India rubber; caoutchouc.
4. An overshoe made of India rubber. [Colloq.]
Meaning of Rubber from wikipedia
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Rubber, also
called India rubber, latex,
Amazonian rubber, caucho, or caoutchouc, as
initially produced,
consists of
polymers of the
organic compound...
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Rubber soldiers (Portuguese:
Soldados da borracha) were
people in
Brazil who were
compulsorily drafted to
harvest rubber in the
Amazon rainforest during...
- EPDM
rubber (ethylene
propylene diene monomer rubber) is a type of
synthetic rubber that is used in many applications. EPDM is an M-class
rubber under...
- A
rubber duck or a
rubber duckie is a toy
shaped like a duck, that is
usually yellow with a flat base. It may be made of
rubber or
rubber-like material...
- Look up
rubber in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Rubber or
natural rubber is a
latex material,
mainly from the Para
rubber tree.
Rubber may also refer...
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Ficus elastica, the
rubber fig,
rubber bush,
rubber tree,
rubber plant, or
Indian rubber bush,
Indian rubber tree, is a
species of
flowering plant in the...
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synthetic rubber is an
artificial elastomer. They are
polymers synthesized from
petroleum byproducts.
About 32
million metric tons of
rubbers are produced...
- In
software engineering,
rubber duck
debugging (or rubberducking) is a
method of
debugging code by
articulating a
problem in
spoken or
written natural...
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Rubber bullets (also
called rubber baton rounds) are a type of
baton round.
Despite the name,
rubber bullets typically have
either a
metal core with a...
- A
rubber band (also
known as an elastic, gum band or
lacky band) is a loop of
rubber,
usually ring or oval shaped, and
commonly used to hold
multiple objects...
