different between rub vs strip

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: str?p, IPA^(key): /st??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe

Noun

strip (chiefly countable, plural strips)

1. (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

   The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.

2. (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
3. A comic strip.
4. A landing strip.
5. A strip steak.
6. (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
7. (sport of fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
8. (Britain, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
9. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
10. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

11. (television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

Hyponyms

• (long, thin piece of bacon): rasher

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English str?epan (“plunder”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”)

Verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

1. (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.

   Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
3. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.

   In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

4. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

   The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.

   They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.

   • They stript Joseph out of his coat.

   • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI

     He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.

   • 2013, Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession (in The Guardian, 19 January 2013)[4]

     After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.

5. (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
6. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

   Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.

   The screw is stripped.

7. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
8. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
9. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
10. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
11. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
12. To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
13. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
14. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
15. (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
16. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
    • 1618, Georege Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo

      when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory

    • Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stript him.

17. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
18. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
19. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
20. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Conjugation

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:strip.

Synonyms

• deprive
• peel
• uncover

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

strip (plural strips)

1. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

   She stood up on the table and did a strip.

2. (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

   strip poker; strip Scrabble

   • 1980, Victor Miller, Friday the 13th (film)

     We're going to play Strip Monopoly.

   • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?

     What was going to happen to this cheeky boy, suddenly deprived of his fun-loving mother, and left with his cold father who barely touched him at her funeral? For a long time – a Nazi uniform here, a game of strip billiards there – it looked like the answer was: nothing good.

Derived terms

• strip poker

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989
• Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

Further reading

• strip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Strip in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips

Dutch

Etymology

From English strip.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

strip m (plural strips, diminutive stripje n)

1. strip (long thin piece)
2. comic (a cartoon story)

Synonyms

• (strip): strook
• (comic): beeldverhaal

Derived terms

• striptekenaar

Verb

strip

1. first-person singular present indicative of strippen
2. imperative of strippen

Portuguese

Noun

strip m (plural strips)

1. Abbreviation of striptease.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English strip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strîp/

Noun

str?p m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. comic (a cartoon story)

Declension