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rubbing (root: rub)

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CIDE DICTIONARY

rubbinga. & n. 
     a. & n. from Rub, v.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rubbing, n.
1 in senses of RUB(1) v.
2 an impression or copy made by rubbing (see RUB(1) v. 10).

THESAURUS

rubbing

apograph, brushing, carbon, carbon copy, caressing, companion, confrication, contacting, contingent, copy, dead ringer, double, duplicate, duplication, effigy, exact likeness, feeling, fellow, fiche, fingering, frication, fricative, friction, frictional, frottage, glancing, grazing, handling, hectography, icon, idol, image, impingent, impinging, in contact, likeness, living image, living picture, manifold, manipulation, match, mate, meeting, microcopy, microfiche, microform, mimeography, miniature, mirroring, model, nudging, osculatory, palpation, perfrication, petting, photograph, picture, portrait, pressure, recording, reduplication, reflection, reproduction, reprography, resemblance, rub, semblance, shadow, similitude, simulacrum, spit and image, spitting image, stroking, tangent, tangential, tenor, touching, trace, tracing, transcript, transcription, transfer, twin, very image, very picture, xerography

ROGET THESAURUS

rubbing

Friction

N friction, attrition, rubbing, abrasion, scraping, confrication, detrition, contrition, affriction, abrasion, arrosion, limature, frication, rub, elbow grease, rosin, massage, roughness, rolling friction, sliding friction, starting friction, anatriptic, attrite.


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