RUBBER

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Traducere în limba română

rubber¹ I. substantiv

1. gumă, cauciuc; obiect de cauciuc.

2. radieră, gumă (de şters).

3. (pl.) galoşi.

4. masor;

to have a rubber a-şi face masaj.

5. piatră de ascuţit.

6. (tehn.) sabot de frână.

7. (poligr.) frecător.

8. (text.) frotor.

9. (fig.) impediment, greutate; nenorocire; nenoroc.

rubber¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

a cauciuca, a impregna (o ţesătură etc.) cu cauciuc.

rubber¹ II. verb B. intranzitiv

(amer. sl.) a lungi gâtul, a căsca gura (din curiozitate).

rubber² substantiv

(la bridge, whist) rober.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“My dear Tom,” cried his aunt soon afterwards, “as you are not dancing, I dare say you will have no objection to join us in a rubber; shall you?”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Amy was fretting because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn't find her rubbers.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

There he was, among the standers-by, where he ought not to be; he ought to be dancing,—not classing himself with the husbands, and fathers, and whist-players, who were pretending to feel an interest in the dance till their rubbers were made up,—so young as he looked!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Twice had Sir Thomas inquired into the enjoyment and success of his lady, but in vain; no pause was long enough for the time his measured manner needed; and very little of her state could be known till Mrs. Grant was able, at the end of the first rubber, to go to her and pay her compliments.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Down dropped the rubbers, and the tea was very near following, as Meg put out her hand, with a face so full of gratitude that Mr. Brooke would have felt repaid for a much greater sacrifice than the trifling one of time and comfort which he was about to take.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I was happier on the lawns because I had on shoes from England with rubber nobs on the soles that bit into the soft ground.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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