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Definition of Rubbing

1. Noun. The resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another.

2. Noun. Representation consisting of a copy (as of an engraving) made by laying paper over something and rubbing it with charcoal.

3. Noun. Effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure.

Definition of Rubbing

1. Noun. An impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with graphite, crayon or other coloring agent. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of rub) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rubbing

1. an image produced by rubbing [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubbing

rubbernecks rubberoid rubbers rubberstamp rubberstamped rubberstamping rubberstamps rubberwear rubberwood rubbery

rubbery figures rubbet rubbidge rubbidges rubbies rubbing (current term) rubbing alcohol rubbing out rubbing strip rubbingly

rubbings rubbish-bin rubbish bin rubbish bins rubbish dump rubbish heap rubbished rubbisher rubbishers

Literary usage of Rubbing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Electricity: A Laboratory and Lecture Course for First Year by William Edward Ayrton (1896)
"Object of rubbing Two Bodies Together to Produce Electrification.—The sole object of rubbing together the two bodies when one or both of them is more or ..."

2. Practical Electricity: A Laboratory and Lecture-course, for First Year by William Edward Ayrton (1891)
"Object of rubbing Two Bodies Together to Produce Electrification.—The sole object of rubbing together the two bodies when one or both of them is more or ..."

3. Practical Electricity: A Laboratory and Lecture Course, for First Year by William Edward Ayrton (1892)
"Object of rubbing Two Bodies Together to Produce Electrification. — The sole object of rubbing together the two bodies when one or both of them is more or ..."

4. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"He eli shadow-outline c rubbing eyes, was the spilt v cracks of th< house-wall bel 'Look! Is: Sahib. ' But it gan Sahil' minute. Ki Dekko! ..."

5. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1917)
"rubbing OFF THE CORNERS. of us turned our feet reluctantly New ... We are rapidly adapting ourselves to new conditions and rubbing off the corners that ..."

6. Spanish Ironwork by Arthur Byne, Mildred Stapley Byne (1915)
"rubbing OF UPPER PLATE OF TRACERY BAND. FIG. 38. THE TWO PLATES RIVETED TOGETHER. Middle XV Century. Hispanic Society of America. Length 16>i in., ..."

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