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Rub vs Itch - What's the difference?

rub | itch |

As a symbol rub

is russian rouble.

As a noun itch is

a sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.

As a verb itch is

to feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.

rub

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of rubbing.
    • Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
  • A difficulty or problem.
    • Therein lies the rub .
  • * III.i.71-75
    • 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
  • * , Episode 16
    • ...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 .
  • 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.

    • Verb

  • To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= 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.}}
  • To rub something against (a second thing).
  • * Sir T. Elyot
    • It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
  • To be rubbed against something.
  • To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
    • meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
  • * Milton
    • The smoothed plank, / New rubbed with balm.
  • (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
  • To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up'' or ''over .
    • to rub up silver
  • * South
    • The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.
  • To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
  • * Shakespeare
    • '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 on

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    itch

    English

    (wikipedia itch)

    Alternative forms

    * (noun) (l), (l), (l) (in Scotland)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
  • A desire or want.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * barber's itch * itchy * jock itch * seven-year itch

    Verb

    (es)
  • To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
  • *
    • Capulet: ... Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; / My fingers itch . Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much, / And that we have a curse in having her: / Out on her, hilding!
  • To want or desire.
    • He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.
  • To cause to feel an itch.
  • (colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
  • * 2002 , M D Huddleston, Missing Paige :
    • "What makes you suspect him?" Max asked as he itched his neck.
  • * 2002 January 4, "Cyd" (username), Itching'', in alt.support.mult-sclerosis, ''Usenet :
    • I have to take both shoes and socks off! If I go bare foot I'm ok! I also get itching on my r/palm of my hand. I itch it so much that it's raw!
  • * 2003 November 21, "Jim Patterson" (username), Behavior Therapy for Itchy Clothes?'', in alt.support.ocd, ''Usenet :
    • Basically I go through a half hour of trying to figure out of it is an fake OCD itch or a regular itch before I itch it (if I determine it's a "fake" itch, then I try not to itch it).
  • * 2003 , Ray Emerson, The Riddle of Cthulhu :
    • Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car.
  • * 2004 , Philip Smucker, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail :
    • But when we asked more about the famous man whose specter still commanded the heights, the guard just sneered at me, pointed his gun back toward the road with one hand, and itched his chin with the other.

    Derived terms

    * make one's teeth itch

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