Rob vs Rub - What's the difference?
rob | rub |
(lb) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
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(lb) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
To deprive (of).
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To burgle.
*2008 , National Public Radio, All Things Considered , Sept 4, 2008
*:Her house was robbed .
(lb) To commit robbery.
(lb) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 28, author=Tom Rostance, work=BBC Sport
, title= The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
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.
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, 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
In transitive terms the difference between rob and rub
is that rob is to deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud while rub is to spread a substance thinly over; to smear.In intransitive terms the difference between rob and rub
is that rob is to commit robbery while rub is to be rubbed against something.As a proper noun Rob
is a diminutive=Robert given name.rob
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) robben, from (etyl) (compare English reave). More at (l).Verb
(robb)Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos, passage=Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.}}
Derived terms
* on the rob * rob Peter to pay Paul * robber * robbery * rob somebody blind * rob the cradleEtymology 2
(etyl); compare (etyl) rob, (etyl) rob, robbo, (etyl) robe, arrobe, and similar (etyl) and (etyl) words.Alternative forms
* rhob, rohobNoun
(-)Anagrams
* bor * bro * orb 1000 English basic words ----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.