different between rub vs burnish

English

Etymology

From Middle English rubben, possibly from Low German rubben, rubbeling or Saterland Frisian rubben. Or, of North Germanic origin, such as Swedish rubba (“to move, scrub”), all from Proto-Germanic *reufan? (“to tear”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian rubje (“to rub, scrape”), German Low German rubben (“to rub”), Low German rubblig (“rough, uneven”), Dutch robben, rubben (“to rub smooth; scrape; scrub”), Danish rubbe (“to rub, scrub”), Icelandic and Norwegian rubba (“to scrape”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??b/, [??b], enPR: r?b
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b/, enPR: r?b
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

rub (plural rubs)

1. An act of rubbing.

2. A difficulty or problem.
3. (archaic) A quip or sarcastic remark.
4. In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
5. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
   1. A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
6. (Britain, naval slang) A loan.

Synonyms

• (a difficulty or problem): hitch, hiccup, catch, kink, glitch, snag

Translations

Verb

rub (third-person singular simple present rubs, present participle rubbing, simple past and past participle rubbed)

1. (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.

2. (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
   • 1536 (originally published, the quote if from a later edited version of unknown date), Thomas Elyot, The Castel of Helth

     It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.

3. (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.

4. (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
5. (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.

6. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
   • a. 1716, Robert South, Man Created in God's Image

     The whole business of our redemption is, in short, only to rub over the defaced copy of the creation

7. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
8. (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• rub in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rub in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rub at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rub”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

References

Anagrams

• bru, bur, bur-

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?b? (“something which was cut”), from *r?bati (“to cut, chop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rup/
• Rhymes: -up
• Homophone: rup

Noun

rub m

1. back (the reverse side)

2. the other (often negative) aspect of a situation

Declension

Antonyms

• líc

Derived terms

• naruby

See also

• vzh?ru nohama
• rubat
• rub on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^cs

References

Further reading

• rub in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• rub in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• rubaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rup]

Verb

rub

1. second-person singular imperative of ruba?

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English rub.

Noun

rub m (genitive singular rub, plural rubbyn)

1. rub

Verb

rub (verbal noun rubbey or rubbal)

1. to rub

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?b?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rû?b/

Noun

r?b m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. rim
2. edge, brink

Declension

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English ribbe, from Old English ribb, from Proto-West Germanic *ribi.

Noun

rub (pluarl rubbès)

1. a rib

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English burnysshen, burnischen, a borrowing from Old French burnir, from its stem burniss-, variant of brunir (“to polish, make brown”), from Old French brun (“brown”). More at English brown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??(?)n??/

Verb

burnish (third-person singular simple present burnishes, present participle burnishing, simple past and past participle burnished or (obsolete) burnisht)

1. (transitive) To make (something) smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish or shine (something)
   • a. 1773, John Cunningham, Pastorals

     Now the village windows blaze, / Burnished by the setting sun.

2. (intransitive) To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Prologue to Circe by Charles Davenant

     A slender poet must have time to grow, / And spread and burnish as his brothers do.

   • My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.

Synonyms

• (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing): wax, shine, polish, furbish, buff

Translations

Noun

burnish

1. Polish; lustre.