What's the difference between fridge and rub?

Fridge


Definition:

  • (n.) To rub; to fray.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
  • (2) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
  • (3) Just drink it straight away, rather than storing it in the fridge, and bear in mind "they're not as good at juicing leafy greens, so you'll need to juice more to get the same volume."
  • (4) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
  • (5) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
  • (6) As for after emergency treatment, volunteers will help patients return home safely and make sure there is food in the fridge – relieving pressure on social care.
  • (7) It's the television equivalent of asking your son to draw you a picture and then pinning it to the back of the fridge because, secretly, you hate him.
  • (8) But there will probably always be a rump that waves away terms like "human dignity" as so much leftwing blarney; who think foreigners are fundamentally different and are worth less, who think it's important to clean behind fridges, and furthermore, that women should be doing it; who think if they're ever caught out they can call it a joke, and that their joke will be hilarious.
  • (9) Inside, they are fitted with modern specifications such as air conditioning, orthopaedic seats and even CD players, fridges and televisions if customers request them.
  • (10) We actually bought it off Gumtree ourselves.” What drew the former prime minister to this particular fridge?
  • (11) He talks about the people he and his regular writer Paul Laverty met while doing their research: the young lad with nothing in his fridge who hadn’t eaten properly for three days; the woman ashamed of attending food banks; the man told to queue for a casual shift at 5.30am, then sent home an hour later because he wasn’t needed.
  • (12) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (13) Split or cracked door seals can allow warm air into your fridge and increase your electricity costs.
  • (14) A survey by Renaissance Capital found that nearly half of the country's middle class (defined as an average monthly income of $500-$600) were planning to buy fridges, freezers and other white goods, "suggesting a consumer boom is under way".
  • (15) Photograph: John Brunton The name of this quite magical locale is "osteria without a host", and it totally lives up to its name, with no one behind the bar, and customers trusted to serve themselves prosecco from the fridge, along with cheese, hams, boiled eggs and bread.
  • (16) Every fridge in the country has a bottle of milk in it,” says Nick Snelgar, a smallholder who has recently set up a micro-dairy in Salisbury.
  • (17) The indoor venue was a cross between a hamburger-smelling circus tent and a fridge.
  • (18) Fridges and freezers moved out of the flooded shop were now floating around, he added.
  • (19) As the months have passed, I've tailored my fridge with experimentation.
  • (20) Asked whether he would ever be prime minister,he said: "Of course not," adding: "The chance[s] of me being prime minister are about as big as the chances of me being locked in a disused fridge interred in a … what is it?"

Rub


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper.
  • (v. t.) To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.
  • (v. t.) To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body.
  • (v. t.) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
  • (v. t.) To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver.
  • (v. t.) To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
  • (v. i.) To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.
  • (v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.
  • (v. i.) To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.
  • (n.) The act of rubbing; friction.
  • (n.) That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.
  • (n.) Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness.
  • (n.) Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.
  • (n.) Imperfection; failing; fault.
  • (n.) A chance.
  • (n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither acetylcholine nor leukotriene D4 altered tone of arterial rings after the endothelium had been intentionally disrupted by rubbing with a cotton-tipped applicator.
  • (2) Rubbed rings, but not intact ones, contracted when Ca2+ was added to a previously Ca2+-free medium containing angiotensin II or adrenaline.
  • (3) Immediately after eye rubbing the conjunctival epithelium was histologically disrupted and 50% of the mast cells showed evidence of degranulation.
  • (4) But this morning's right-of-centre national papers were determined to rub his nose in the dirt.
  • (5) Long-term rubbing of a pressure stocking and splint was believed to be responsible for breakdown in the graft of the patient who had a hypertrophic scar.
  • (6) I think we all pine for the good old days when politicians actually wrote bills, and bills actually became laws and can I rub your arms a little?
  • (7) The specific endonuclease Bam HI from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (RUB 500) has been purified to apparent homogeneity.
  • (8) Ultz, who is also a well-known stage designer, is the only white person in the company - something the play rubs his nose in.
  • (9) Who was the asshole who threw the bottle?” Matt asked, rubbing his sore spot.
  • (10) The fibromas were transmitted by intradermal and subcutaneous inoculation and by rubbing the virus preparation into tattoo sites.
  • (11) With advancing age, the ATP-induced relaxation in the rubbed rings decreased and was abolished.
  • (12) In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association describes “frotteurism” as “recurrent, intense, or arousing sexual urges or fantasies, that involve touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person”.
  • (13) Rubbed (endothelium-denuded) ring preparations at the age of 4-6 weeks showed a dose-dependent relaxation similar to that of the unrubbed rings.
  • (14) We found positive reactions in the prick test and rubbing test to the scales of the lizard Egernia cunninghami and others, which the patient kept as house-pets at this time or earlier.
  • (15) On the contrary, not all country dwellers are Tories; and fat cats, often Tory, will be rubbing their hands at the thought of asset-stripping another national resource.
  • (16) Ten rubs occurred in patients with pericardial effusion, five of whom had tamponade.
  • (17) But this will only rub more salt into the wounds at home.
  • (18) During each scratch cycle, the monoarticular knee extensor muscle is active when the limb rubs against the stimulated site, and there is rhythmic alternation between hip protractor and hip retractor muscle activity (Robertson et al., 1985).
  • (19) Oscar Pistorius rubs his face as he sits in the dock during his ongoing murder trial at a packed high court in Pretoria on May 5.
  • (20) Did it actually happen, that run of singles so strange and yet so strong that they rose to the higher reaches of the hit parade, rubbing shoulders with Showaddywaddy and the Nolans on Top of the Pops?

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