rub meaning
EN
[ɹʌb] [ɹɐb] [-ʌb] 
US WRub
- Rub or RUB may refer to:
- NounPLrubs
- An act of rubbing.
- Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
- A difficulty or problem.
- Therein lies the rub.
- In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- a heat rub intended for muscular strains
- An act of rubbing.
- VerbSGrubsPRrubbingPT, PPrubbed
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
- (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
- I rubbed the glass with the cloth.
- (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
- My shoes are beginning to rub.
- (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
- (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
- to rub through woods, as huntsmen
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- to rub up silver
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The poetry, prose and personality in Soul Clothes, may rub up on a curious and compassionate place within you, a place of stark reality drenched in divine hope.
- Tibbles, the cat, rubbed up against my leg, asking for a piece of my cheese.
- Not to rub it in, but I'm working from home. So I took a swim this morning and have thoroughly been enjoying the beautiful weather
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of rub in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "rub" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.