Rubbing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of polishing, cleaning, or drying.
  • n. A representation of a raised or indented surface made by placing paper over the surface and rubbing the paper gently with a marking agent such as charcoal or chalk.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with graphite, crayon or other coloring agent.
  • v. Present participle of rub.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • a. & n. from rub, v.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An application of friction by any means; a frictional movement, as of the hand over the surface of the body for remedial purposes.
  • n. A copy of an inscribed, engraved, or sculptured surface procured by rubbing superimposed paper with something, as heel-ball or plumbago, that reproduces the outlines and saliences on its exposed side. Compare squeeze, n.
  • n. In needle-making, a process for straightening wire, in which the wires are heated and rolled back and forth on a smooth surface under the pressure of a curved tool.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure
  • n. the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another
  • n. representation consisting of a copy (as of an engraving) made by laying paper over something and rubbing it with charcoal
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    representation   
    Variant
    rub   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    friction   
    Verb Stem
    rub   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    clubbing    drubbing    dubbing    scrubbing    snubbing    subbing   
     
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