rubber

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This rubber is the only kind like it in the entire world.

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  1. noun A yellowish, amorphous, elastic material obtained from the milky sap or latex of various tropical plants, especially the rubber tree, and vulcanized, pigmented, finished, and modified into products such as electric insulation, elastic bands and belts, tires, and containers. Also called caoutchouc, India rubber.
  2. noun Any of numerous synthetic elastic materials of varying chemical composition with properties similar to those of natural rubber.
  3. noun A low overshoe made of rubber.
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  • True, the Portuguese gave us a provisional concession for our rubber area; but, when our cattle were dead, we had no capital to work it, or even to pay the cost of survey and title, and so, in the end, we lost that too. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • This rubber is the only kind like it in the entire world. —  Life Goggles
  • Using a rubber is a "sin", don't you know, just like masturbation is a sin because it interferes with God's "plan" for every new human life. —  CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
  • "We depend on the rubber, and the rubber is not productive again for the entire farm - it has broken down - and we can't survive." —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • An important tip to remember when carving a stamp from an eraser is to cut slightly at an angle downward so that the evacuated part of the rubber is a valley-shaped depression rather than a block-shaped cutout.
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  1. From rub.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. from rub + -er. Cf. Irish ruboir, Gaelic rubair, a rubber.
  2. Short for rubber-neck.
  3. rubber, n.
 

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