Rue vs Rub - What's the difference?
rue | rub |
(archaic, or, dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
(archaic, or, dialectal) Pity; compassion.
(obsolete) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
(obsolete) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place.
* (rfdate) Chapman
* (rfdate) Milton
(archaic) To feel compassion or pity.
* Late 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
* (rfdate) Ridley
(archaic) To feel sorrow or regret.
* (rfdate) Tennyson
Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta , especially the herb , formerly used in medicines.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* c. 1600 , (William Shakespeare), , (Ophelia):
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
As a noun rue
is .As a symbol rub is
russian rouble.rue
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rewe, reowe, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* rueful * ruthEtymology 2
(etyl) , from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch rouwen, German reuen.Verb
- I rued the day I crossed paths with her.
- I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.
- Thy will chose freely what it now so justly rues .
- Madame, reweth upon my peynes smerte
- which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them
- Old year, we'll dearly rue for you.
Usage notes
Most frequently used in the collocation “rue the day”.Etymology 3
(wikipedia rue) From (etyl) ruwe, (etyl) rue (> modern French rue), from (etyl) . Compare (rude).Noun
(en noun)- But th'aged Nourse, her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew , and Savine, and the flowre / Of Camphora, and Calamint, and Dill [...].
- There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s rue''' for you; and here’s some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your ' rue with a difference.
Synonyms
* garden rue * herb of graceDerived terms
* goat's rue * rue anemone * Syrian rue * wall rueReferences
Anagrams
* * ----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.
