Rub vs Shrub - What's the difference?

As a symbol rub

is russian rouble.

As a noun shrub is

a woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base or shrub can be a liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.

As a verb shrub is

(obsolete) to lop; to prune.

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.

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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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Anagrams

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shrub

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; akin to Norwegian skrubba the dwarf cornel tree

Noun

(en noun)

A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

Synonyms

* bush (plant)

Derived terms

* semishrubby * shrubbery * shrubby * subshrub * undershrub

Verb

(obsolete) To lop; to prune.

(Kenya) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.

For example , ? sr?b)

Etymology 2

From (etyl) , akin to sirup, sherbet

Noun

(en noun)

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.

Anagrams

* brush