Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word RUBBER

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Definitions of RUBBER

1. The game of rubber bridge.
2. (uncountable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
3. (uncountable, countable) Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
4. (countable, Australia, India, Brunei, NZ, UK) An eraser.
5. (countable, North America, slang) A condom.
6. (countable) Someone or something which rubs.
7. (historical) The cushion of an electric machine.
8. (countable, baseball) The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
9. (North America, in the plural) Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
10. (uncountable, slang) Tires, particularly racing tires.
11. (slang, dated) A hardship or misfortune.
12. (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
13. (sports) 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:
14. (sports, North America) A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
15. (telephony) To eavesdrop on a telephone call
16. (slang) To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.

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Examples of Using RUBBER in a Sentence

• While part of the Soviet Union, the economy of Armenia was based largely on manufacturing industry—chemicals, electronic products, machinery, processed food, synthetic rubber and textiles; it was highly dependent on outside resources.
• Two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance, and shoot a vulcanized rubber hockey puck into the other team's net.
• Individual letterboxes contain a notebook and a rubber stamp, preferably hand carved or custom made.
• Manganese oxide is used as an oxidising agent; as a rubber additive; and in glass making, fertilisers, and ceramics.
• It is used in plumbing, electrical cable insulation, flooring, signage, phonograph records, inflatable products, and in rubber substitutes.
• Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru.
• It has an open conical shape formed by feathers or plastic (or a synthetic alternative) embedded into a rounded cork (or rubber) base.
• The classic form consists of a Y-shaped frame, with two tubes or strips made from either a natural rubber or synthetic elastic material.
• Each player uses a tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court.
• Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, caucho, or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds.
• Examples include silicone rubber via room temperature vulcanizing and chloroprene rubber (neoprene) using metal oxides.
• Racquetball is a racquet sport and a team sport played with a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court.
• Finally the last, called PeopleMover or WEDway PeopleMover, was an attraction that was originally presented by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and that opened at Disneyland in 1967.
• Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a racket-and-ball sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball.
• A closed disk hockey puck having the shape of a short cylinder made of vulcanized rubber is used in the sport of ice hockey.
• Hindustan Newsprint Limited and Rubber Board are two central government organizations located in the district.
• The outpost of Epsumb or Jeundo was founded between the Nyong and Sanaga rivers at the northern edge of the area's forests in 1887 by German explorers as a trading base for rubber and ivory.
• Avon Tyres, a UK car, motorcycle and racing-tyre manufacturer, owned by the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company.
• Objects made of electrical insulators like rubber tend to have very high resistance and low conductance, while objects made of electrical conductors like metals tend to have very low resistance and high conductance.
• Cabinda also produces hardwoods, coffee, cacao, rubber, and palm oil products; however, petroleum production accounts for most of Cabinda's domestic product.

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