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Rubber   /rˈəbər/   Listen
Rubber

adjective
1.
Returned for lack of funds.  Synonym: no-good.  "A no-good check"
noun
1.
An elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products.  Synonyms: caoutchouc, gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber.
2.
Any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber.  Synonym: synthetic rubber.
3.
An eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil.  Synonyms: pencil eraser, rubber eraser.
4.
Contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse.  Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, safe, safety.
5.
A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.  Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, gumshoe.
verb
1.
Coat or impregnate with rubber.  Synonyms: rubberise, rubberize.



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"Rubber" Quotes from Famous Books



... before her noble purpose could do so, and Genevieve Maud, left to her own resources, made unctuous mud pies and fed them to her family. Grace Margaret and Helen Adeline returned in triumph within the hour and laid at the feet of their small victim modest offerings consisting of one armless rubber doll, one dirty and badly torn picture-book, ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan

... the chest, the chair, the knife and fork, the stove and bakeoven, each and every one of them, have been touched by the transforming hand of homely genius, and have assumed a thousand unimaginable forms of usefulness and convenience. India rubber and every other available material have been made to perform new and appropriate parts in the general work. The result of all this unexampled activity and ingenuity has not yet been fully eliminated. It would require years of experience in war in order to bring American genius, as at present ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... about him is the way he likes to grow— Not at all like proper children which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's ...
— The Evolution of Expression Vol. I • Charles Wesley Emerson

... was followed by a slight, muffled scurrying of feet, and the gig's crew were seen leaping, light as figures of india-rubber, into the elegantly-moulded craft that hung at the brig's davits, the falls were eased away, and in a moment the boat, light as a bubble, was dancing upon the sparkling blue tumble at the brig's lee gangway. Then the first lieutenant ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... was! Not too proud, you know, but just proud enough. Well, as true as I'm telling you, if Jimmie wasn't as good an auto horn as one could wish. Not a single accident happened when he was on the seat, "quack-quacking" away, and when the man went to a store and got his regular horn, with the rubber handle to it, why, he brought Jimmie right ...
— Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble • Howard R. Garis


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