English Dictionary

rubber

/ˈɹʌbə(ɹ)/

noun

(uncountable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene. / (uncountable, countable) Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.

I need to buy a new rubber for my pencil.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.

意味（2）

(uncountable, countable) Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.

意味（3）

(countable, Australia, India, Brunei, New Zealand, UK) An eraser.

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.

意味（4）

(countable, Canada, US, slang) A condom.

And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket

意味（5）

One who rubs down horses.

意味（6）

One who practises massage.

I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house

意味（7）

A coarse towel for rubbing the body.

意味（8）

An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.

意味（9）

(historical) The cushion of an electric machine.

意味（10）

(countable, baseball) The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.

Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.

意味（11）

(Canada, US, in the plural) Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.

Johnny, don't forget your rubbers today.

意味（12）

(uncountable, slang) Tires, particularly racing tires.

Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.

意味（13）

(slang, dated) A hardship or misfortune.

The British barges, off New-London, sometimes meet with the rubbers. In an attack upon an armed smack, some days ago, they were beaten off, with the reported loss of 8 men killed.