Definition of Rubbing

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Definition of Rubbing
	Rubbing of Rub a. & n. from Rub, v. Related Definitions: From, Of, Rub

Rubbing Quotations

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.
Jean Piaget

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
James Herriot

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
Yakov Smirnoff

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.
Roger Bannister

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett

I go out into the woods at night, the secret thing happens and the guy is obviously standing there naked in the woods. So I just went on a diet immediately. I got all those creams and started rubbing!
Danny DeVito

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.
Jason Statham

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
Balthazar Getty

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
Peter Brook

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
J. Carter Brown

Rubbing Translations

rubbing in French is frottage, froissement, lessivage, frottant
rubbing in German is reibend, scheuern, Reiben
rubbing in Italian is strofinare, fregare
rubbing in Spanish is frotacion, friccionar

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