different between rubber vs stole

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From rub +? -er.

The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not having to do with rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from the name of the substance.

Noun

rubber (usually uncountable, plural rubbers)

1. (uncountable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
2. (uncountable, countable) Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
3. (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An eraser.
   • 2006, Lisa Kervin, Research for Educators, page 148,

     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.

   • 2010, Anna Jacobs, Beyond the Sunset, unnumbered page,

     Drawing materials, he thought, I used to love drawing as a lad. I can afford some plain paper and pencils, surely? And a rubber, too. He smiled at the memory of an elderly uncle, also fond of drawing, who?d always called rubbers ‘lead eaters’.

   • 2011, Patrick Lindsay, The Spirit of the Digger, Revised edition, unnumbered page,

     Stan stole a diary and some pens, pencils, ink and rubbers during his early days as a POW working on the Singapore docks.

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom
5. (countable) Someone or something which rubs.
   • 1949, LIFE (11 July 1949, page 21)

     What perplexity plagues the chin-rubber in the foreground and what so discourages the man leaning on the lamp post? And to what doom is the large man at right moving? Photographer Cowherd has no answers.

   1. One who rubs down horses.
   2. One who practises massage.
      • 1601, John Marston, What You Will

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

   3. A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
   4. An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
6. (historical) The cushion of an electric machine.
7. (countable, baseball) The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.

   Synonyms: pitcher's plate, pitcher's rubber

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

9. (uncountable, slang) Tires, particularly racing tires.

10. (slang, dated) A hardship or misfortune.
    • 1814, The Weekly Register (volume 5, page 302)

      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.

    • 1843, John Castillo, Awd Isaac: The Steeple Chase, and Other Poems (page 101)

      'Twas a bit gone December, / As I well remember, / I met with a rubber, and got some advice; […]

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Sikaiana: lapa

Adjective

rubber

1. (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.

Synonyms

• (of a draft/check): hot, bad

  I wouldn't take a check from him. They're pure rubber.

Usage notes

Colloquially, a check that has insufficient funds to cover it is said to "bounce"; consequently, a check that will immediately bounce is referred to as "rubber" or a "rubber check."

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

rubber (plural rubbers)

1. (sports) In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:
   1. The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).
      • 1828 Robert Huish The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded on Fact p.83:

        They played, and Creed and his young partner won the first rubber, winning the two first games running.

      • 1907 May 25, in The Publishers' Weekly, number 1843, page 1608 [1]:

        […] an old lady's innocent rubber.

   2. An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
      • 2013 Cradley Heath Badminton League Rules as at 2013/2014

        Ladies matches shall consist of 6 rubbers. Each rubber shall consist of best of 3 games to 21 points.

      • 2015 February 7, in The Globe and Mail (Toronto), "Canada trails Czech Republic 2-0 in Fed Cup tie after singles losses"

        Montreal’s Francoise Abanda lost the first rubber of the tie 6-2, 6-4 to Karolina Pliskova on Saturday

2. (sports, Canada, US) A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
3. The game of rubber bridge.
   • 1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

     "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I have not had my rubber." "I think you will find that you will play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting."

Derived terms

• dead rubber
• rubber bridge
• rubber match

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

rubber (third-person singular simple present rubbers, present participle rubbering, simple past and past participle rubbered)

1. (telephony) To eavesdrop on a telephone call
   • 1999, Los Angeles Times, "Party's Over for Rural Phone Customers in Green Mountain State," (Jan. 31, 1999):

     "There's a lot of nostalgia about the phone and how it was the way to get the local news," said Jane Beck of the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. One way was "rubbering," or listening in on a neighbor's conversations ...

2. (slang) To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.
   • 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17:

     Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming.

References

• “natural rubber”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English rubber.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: rub?ber
• Rhymes: -?b?r

Noun

rubber n (plural rubbers, diminutive rubbertje n)

1. (uncountable) rubber (pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree)
2. piece of rubber used in machines
3. a condom

Derived terms

• rubberen (adjective)

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?røb?r/

Noun

rubber c or n (no plural)

1. rubber

Further reading

• “rubber (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adjective

rubber

1. rubber

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “rubber (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sto?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

stole

1. simple past tense of steal
2. (now colloquial or archaic) past participle of steal

Etymology 2

From Old English stole, from Latin stola, from Ancient Greek ????? (stol?, “stole, garment, equipment”); akin to stall.

Noun

stole (plural stoles)

1. A garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck with each end hanging over the chest, worn in ecclesiastical settings or sometimes as a part of graduation dress.
   • 1994-1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98, Multimedia Edition

     Certain robes indicate a position in the hierarchy; others correspond to function and may be worn by the same individual at different times. The most important vestment among the insignia [of the clergy] is the stole, the emblem of sacerdotal status, the origin of which is the ancient pallium. The stole originally was a draped garment, then a folded one with the appearance of a scarf, and, finally, in the 4th century, a scarf. As a symbol of jurisdictionin the Roman Empire, the supreme pontiff (the pope, or bishop of Rome) conferred it upon archbishops and, later, upon bishops, as emblematic of their sharing in the papal authority.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter X, p. 167, [3]

     With sou'-wester under arm, and oilskin open so that God might see the stole and know that there was no deception, he chanted from a prayer-book in a tone exactly like that of a blackfellow devil-dovvening: […]

2. A scarf-like garment, often made of fur.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin stol?.

Noun

stole (plural stoles)

1. (botany) A stolon.

References

• stole in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stole”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• TESOL, lotes, telos, toles

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stol?/
• Rhymes: -ol?
• Hyphenation: sto?le

Noun

stole

1. vocative singular of st?l
2. locative singular of st?l

Synonyms

• (locative): stolu

Anagrams

• letos
• Stelo
• Teslo

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?l?/, [?sd?o?l?]

Noun

stole c

1. indefinite plural of stol

Verb

stole (imperative stol, infinitive at stole, present tense stoler, past tense stolede, perfect tense har stolet)

1. Only used with på: see stole på.

Italian

Noun

stole f

1. plural of stola

Anagrams

• lesto, solte, stelo, tolse

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?l?/, [?st?l?]

Noun

stole

1. locative singular of sto?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun stol

Verb

stole (imperative stol, present tense stoler, passive stoles, simple past stolte, past participle stolt, present participle stolende)

1. to trust (på / in)
2. to rely (på / on, upon)

References

• “stole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From stol (“chair”).

Alternative forms

• stola (a infinitive)

Verb

stole (present tense stolar/stoler, past tense stola/stolte, past participle stola/stolt, passive infinitive stolast, present participle stolande, imperative stol)

1. to trust (på / in)
2. to rely (på / on, upon)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

stole

1. past participle of stela and stele

References

• “stole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.l?/
• Homophone: stol?

Noun

stole m

1. locative/vocative singular of stó?