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# rubbing

«rubbing» in Mova's school dictionary: **moving your hand or something against a surface again and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (present participle of rub: rub, rubs, rubbed, rubbing); noun (a rubbing, rubbings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Rubbing means moving your hand or something against a surface again and again, pressing on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#m1)

2) Rubbing out means removing pencil marks with a rubber or eraser. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#m2)

3) A rubbing is a picture made by putting paper on a rough surface and rubbing it with a crayon (a bark rubbing, a coin rubbing). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, rubbing creates friction, which makes heat (rub your hands to warm them) and can make static electricity (rub a balloon on your hair). In art lessons: leaf and bark rubbings. In health: rubbing your eyes can spread germs; rubbing on sun cream protects skin. Phrases: rubbing your hands, rubbing out, rubbing it in (reminding someone of a mistake).

### examples

- I am rubbing my hands to keep them warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#x1)
- She is rubbing out the wrong answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#x2)
- Rubbing a balloon on your hair makes it stick to the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#x3)
- We made bark rubbings with crayons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#x4)
- Stop rubbing your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#x5)
- Rubbing two sticks together can make fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#x6)
- The cat is rubbing against my legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#x7)
- I know I lost, don't keep rubbing it in! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#x8)
- Rubbing his hands together happily, he mumbled half to himself: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/#x9)

### note

Double b: rubbing. In British English a «rubber» is an eraser; in American English «rubber» can mean something else, so «eraser» is safer. Friction from rubbing always makes some heat.

### In the corpora

- [Skin even fights back against rubbing: a blister cushions a sore spot, and a guitarist's fingertips grow thick hard calluses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/4/)
- [Rubbing makes skin grow thicker into calluses, which protect it; barefoot runners grow thick soles that protect like shoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/16/)
- [Dock leaves on nettle stings help mostly because rubbing and coolness soothe; they are not a strong chemical cure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/15-acids-in-the-kitchen/17/)
- [Rubbing an eye with dirty hands can scratch it or carry germs into it, causing a painful infection.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet/20/)
- [Rubbing damages frostbitten skin; she should warm it slowly instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rubbing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubbing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.