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/ˈɹʌbə/ · noun
(uncountable, countable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene..
For example, they may use paddle pop sticks, hand span, pencils, rubbers, mathematics equipment (i.e. base 10 material) or anything else the teacher can find to measure the lengths of nominated objects.
Drawing materials, he thought, I used to love drawing as a lad. I can afford some plain paper and pencils, surely? And a rubber, too. He smiled at the memory of an elderly uncle, also fond of drawing, who′d always called rubbers ‘lead eaters’.
Stan stole a diary and some pens, pencils, ink and rubbers during his early days as a POW working on the Singapore docks.
And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket
Don't have sex, because you will get pregnant and die! Don't have sex in the missionary position, don't have sex standing up, just don't do it, OK, promise? OK, now everybody take some rubbers.
My daddy said "Treat young girls like your mother" / My momma said "Trust no hoe, use a rubber"
What perplexity plagues the chin-rubber in the foreground and what so discourages the man leaning on the lamp post? And to what doom is the large man at right moving? Photographer Cowherd has no answers.
Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.
Use rubber when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rubber means (uncountable, countable) Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene..
Common synonyms include I wouldn't take a check from him. They're pure rubber., hot, bad, natural rubber.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For example, they may use paddle pop sticks, hand span, pencils, rubbers, mathematics equipment (i.e. base 10 material) or anything else the teacher can find to measure the lengths of nominated objects.
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