Rubbing

Definition

rub /rʌb/ v ( -bb- ) ၁။ (က) ~ (sth) (with sth) ပြတ္သည္။ If you keep rubbing, the paint will come off. ❍ He rubbed his eyes. ❍ She rubbed her chin thoughtfully. ❍ Rub the surface with a damp cloth. ❍ She rubbed her hand across her face. ❍ The cat was rubbing (itself) against my legs. (ခ) ~ sth (together) ပြတ္တိုက္သည္။ She rubbed her hands (together) in delight. (ဂ) ~ (on/against sb/sth) ပြတ္တိုက္ေနသည္။ ၿငိေနသည္။ The heel of my shoe is rubbing (ie against my foot). ❍ The wheel is rubbing on the mudguard. ၂။ (ေျပာင္လက္ေအာင္၊ ေျခာက္ေသြ႕ေအာင္) ပြတ္သည္၊ တိုက္သည္။ rub the surface smooth ❍ rub one's hair dry (with a towel). ၃။ ~ sth (in/into/on/over sth) လိမ္းသပ္သည္။ Rub the lotion in/into your skin. ❍ He rubbed the cream on her back. n ၁။ [C usu sing ] ပြတ္တိုက္ျခင္း။ ပြတ္ျခင္း။ တိုက္ျခင္း။ Give your shoes a rub before you go out. ၂။ the rub [sing] ( dated or rhet ) ျပႆနာ။ အခက္။ One needs employment in order to secure a place to live. There's/There lies the rub. ❏ rub along (with sb/together) [ PHRV ] ( Brit infml ) ပလဲနံပသင့္သည္။ ❏ rubbing n ေက်ာက္စာစသည္ ထပ္ကူးပံု။ take a brass rubbing (eg of a decoration on a TOMBSTONE). ❏ rub (sb/oneself/sth) down [ PHRV ] ေျခာက္ေအာင္၊ စင္ေအာင္ နာနာတိုက္သည္။ The players paused to rub (themselves) down between games. ❏ rub sth down [ PHRV ] ေခ်ာေအာင္တိုက္သည္၊ စားသည္။ Rub the wood down well with fine sandpaper before painting. ❏ rub it in [ PHRV ] အနာေဟာင္းကို ဆြဆြေပးသည္။ I know it was a silly thing to do, but there's no need to rub it in! ❏ rub sb's nose in it [ IDM ] ( infml ) အျပစ္ႏွင့္ မတန္ေအာင္ ပက္ပက္စက္စက္ျမည္တြန္ေတာက္တီးသည္။ ❏ rub (sth) off (sth) [ PHRV ] ပြတ္ထုတ္သည္။ ေခ်သည္။ ဖ်က္သည္။ Rub the mud off your trousers. ❍ Who's rubbed my figures off the blackboard? ❍ These stains won't rub off. ❏ rub off (on/onto sb) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ကူးသည္။ Let's hope some of his good luck rubs off on me! ❏ rub sb out [ PHRV ] ( US sl ) သတ္ပစ္သည္။ ရွင္း ပစ္သည္။ ❏ rub sth out [ PHRV ] မင္ဖ်က္ (သို႔) ခဲဖ်က္ႏွင့္ဖ်က္သည္။ rub out a mistake/word/drawing. ❏ rub salt into the wound/sb's wounds [ IDM ] အနာထဲဆားပက္သည္။ ❏ rub shoulders with sb [ IDM ] (ထင္ေပၚေက်ာ္ၾကား သူတို႔ႏွင့္) ဆက္ဆံရသည္၊ လက္ပြန္းတတီး ေနရသည္။ He's rubbing shoulders with film stars all the time. ❏ rub sth up [ PHRV ] (ေျပာင္လက္ေအာင္) တိုက္ခြၽတ္ သည္။ ❏ rub sb up the wrong way [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေျပာမတတ္ ၍ ဆဲသလိုျဖစ္ရသည္။ She tends to rub people up the wrong way.

Examples

1. The boy rubbed his eyes sleepily.
2. [rub something off something] : Rub the skins of the peppers off when they have softened.
3. Scott gently rubbed her back until the pain went away.
4. [rub something off something] : He rubbed the dirt off the number plate with his sleeve.
5. [rub something against something] : The cat rubbed its cheek against my leg.
6. [rub something together] : Rub your hands together
7. it will help you to stay warm.
8. The cow rubbed against the fence.
9. Cindy’s new shoes were rubbing and giving her blisters.
10. [rub something on something] : She rubbed some tanning oil on his back.
11. [rub something with something] : Rub the chicken with garlic before putting it in the oven.