different between smeg vs rubidium

English

Etymology

Popularised by the British sitcom Red Dwarf, whose makers describe it as an arbitrary coinage unconnected to smegma; see the Wikipedia article for further discussion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm??/
• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

smeg

1. (slang) Used as a swear word.

Verb

smeg (third-person singular simple present smegs, present participle smegging, simple past and past participle smegged)

1. (slang) To mess up.

Derived terms

• smegger
• smegging
• smeghead

See also

• Appendix:Fictional English curse words

Anagrams

• EGMs, GEMs, Gems, MEGs, MGEs, Megs, gems, megs

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish smeic. Cognate with Irish smig.

Noun

smeg f

1. chin

English

Etymology

A New Latin word derived by German chemist R. W. Bunsen in 1861, from Latin rubidus (“red”) because its spectrum has two red lines.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ro?ob?d'??m, IPA^(key): /??u??b?d.i.?m/

Noun

rubidium (usually uncountable, plural rubidiums)

1. The chemical element (symbol Rb) with an atomic number of 37. It is a soft, highly reactive alkali metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

Related terms

• rubidic, rubidian

Translations

References

• Rubidium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

Afrikaans

Noun

rubidium (uncountable)

1. rubidium

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rub???um]
• Hyphenation: ru?bi?dium

Noun

rubidium n

1. rubidium

Declension

Danish

Noun

rubidium

1. rubidium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rubidium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ry?bi.di.?m/
• Hyphenation: ru?bi?di?um

Noun

rubidium n (uncountable)

1. rubidium (chemical element) [from 1862]

Finnish

Noun

rubidium

1. rubidium

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.bi.dj?m/

Noun

rubidium m (uncountable)

1. rubidium

Further reading

• “rubidium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ru?bi.di.um/, [r??b?d?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ru?bi.di.um/, [ru?bi?d?ium]

Noun

rubidium n (genitive rubidi?); second declension

1. rubidium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?y?bi????m]

Noun

rubidium n

1. (uncountable) rubidium
2. A part of rubidium

Inflection

Malay

Etymology

From English rubidium, from New Latin, from Latin rubidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rubidiom], [rubidi?m]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

rubidium

1. rubidium (element with atomic number 37)

Swedish

Noun

rubidium n (uncountable)

1. rubidium

Declension