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Definition of Rubbing

Rubbing

  1. of Rub
  2. a. & n. from Rub, v.

Rubbing Quotations

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

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

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
Barbara Kingsolver

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

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
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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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