Rub vs Inflame - What's the difference?
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An act of rubbing.
A difficulty or problem.
* III.i.71-75
* , Episode 16
In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
* , chapter=7
, title= To rub something against (a second thing).
* Sir T. Elyot
To be rubbed against something.
To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
* Milton
(dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up'' or ''over .
* South
To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
* Shakespeare
To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
* Chapman
(figuratively) To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
* Milton
* Dryden
To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
* Shakespeare
*, chapter=12
, title= To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
* Addison
*1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),
*:As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.
To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
Rub is a related term of inflame.
As a symbol rub
is russian rouble.As a verb inflame is
.rub
English
Noun
(en noun)- Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
- Therein lies the rub .
- To die, to sleep—/To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub !/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause
- ...the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub .
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
- meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
- The smoothed plank, / New rubbed with balm.
- to rub up silver
- The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.
- 'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
Derived terms
* rubber * rubbing * rub elbows * rub in * rub it in * rub out * rub off * rub shoulders * rub up * rub up onExternal links
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English
Verb
(inflam)- We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.
- to inflame desire
- more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage
- But, O inflame and fire our hearts.
- It will inflame you; it will make you mad.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward
- to inflame the eyes by overwork
- A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.