rubber

Etymology 1
From.

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

Noun

 * 1)  Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
 * 2)  Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
 * 3)  An eraser.
 * 4)  A condom.
 * 5)  Someone or something which rubs.
 * 6) One who rubs down horses.
 * 7) One who practises massage.
 * 8) A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
 * 9) An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
 * 10)  The cushion of an electric machine.
 * 11)  The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
 * 12)  Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
 * 13)  Tires, particularly racing tires.
 * 14)  A hardship or misfortune.
 * 1) A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
 * 2) An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
 * 3)  The cushion of an electric machine.
 * 4)  The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
 * 5)  Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
 * 6)  Tires, particularly racing tires.
 * 7)  A hardship or misfortune.
 * 1)  Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
 * 2)  Tires, particularly racing tires.
 * 3)  A hardship or misfortune.
 * 1)  Tires, particularly racing tires.
 * 2)  A hardship or misfortune.
 * 1)  A hardship or misfortune.

Translations

 * Adyghe: хьашъо
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: مَطَّاط
 * Egyptian Arabic: كاوتش
 * Gulf Arabic: ربل
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: kauçuk,
 * Belarusian: гу́ма, каўчу́к
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: гу́ма, каучук
 * Burmese: ,
 * Cahuilla: 'uuli'
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro: kawcho
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏜ
 * Chichewa: mpira
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 橡奶
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: ōlli
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: gummi
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kaŭĉuko
 * Estonian: kummi
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: რეზინი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ελαστικό κόμμι,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: rubar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: buraxa
 * Kazakh: каучук
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຢາງ
 * Latin: gumma
 * Latvian: gumija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: гу́ма
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: റബ്ബർ
 * Maltese: gomma
 * Mongolian:, эрзээн ,
 * Nepali:, रबड
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: gummi
 * Nynorsk: gummi
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гума
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: goma
 * Tajik: резина
 * Taos: úliną
 * Tatar: каучук
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: འགྱིག
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: kauçuk, rezin
 * Ukrainian: гу́ма, каучу́к
 * Urdu: ربڑ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: rubber
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: גומע
 * Zhuang: gau


 * Bulgarian: гума
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Esperanto: gumo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: რეზინი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ;  合成ゴム
 * Latvian: gumija
 * Macedonian: гума
 * Malayalam: റബ്ബർ
 * Norwegian: kunstgummi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:, kumm
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian: gummi, kondom
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: hankaaja
 * Russian:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: syöttölaatta
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: галоши
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: галоши
 * Norwegian: kalosj
 * Russian: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian: dekk, bilgummi
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Afrikaans: (1),  (2),  (3),  (4)
 * Dutch: (1),  (2),  (3)
 * Italian:, (3)
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: (meeLmam)

Adjective

 * 1)  Not covered by funds on account.

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."

Synonyms

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

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: cheque sin fondos

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1)  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:
 * 2) 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).
 * 3) * 1907 May 25, in The Publishers' Weekly, number 1843, page 1608 :
 * an old lady's innocent rubber.
 * 1) An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
 * 2) The game of rubber bridge.
 * 1)  A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
 * 2) The game of rubber bridge.

Verb

 * 1)  To eavesdrop on a telephone call
 * 2) * 1999, Los Angeles Times, "|The 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 ...
 * 1)  To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  rubber (pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree)
 * 2) piece of rubber used in machines
 * a

Noun

 * 1) rubber

Adjective

 * 1) rubber