What's the difference between robber and rubber?

Robber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe they have military training but only certain people would have the balls – the audacity – to pull off something like that.” Another former robber said the stolen goods would already be at their destination.
  • (2) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
  • (3) "The circumstances caused George to think he might be a robber or do something bad because of what had gone on," she said, referring to a recent series of burglaries in the development.
  • (4) The outcry over the incident – and over a police attempt to portray Becerra as a suspected armed robber – led to graffiti protests across the city as well as the arrest of two police officers.
  • (5) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
  • (6) Later still, the local police chief was removed as primary responder, but he still managed to muddy the waters (which the Brown family calls character assassination) by first releasing video of a black robber and then admitting it had nothing to do with Brown's shooting.
  • (7) At Christmas 1964, he was joined in Mexico by his fellow train robbers Buster Edwards, who had not yet been caught, and Charlie Wilson, who had escaped from Winson Green prison.
  • (8) The Sun reported that a blade was held to her throat during the ordeal, while one of the robbers shouted: "If you don't tell us where the safe is we'll cut off your kids' fingers."
  • (9) In 1966 he was assessor to Lord Mountbatten during his inquiry into prison security – but he harboured a sneaking regard for Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber who escaped from Wandsworth jail in 1965, saying that his flight "added a rare and welcome touch of humour to the history of crime".
  • (10) He's looks like a very rich man who doesn't want to open his books – and that fits the robber baron frame.
  • (11) Many of the robbers have already died: Charlie Wilson was shot dead in the Spain in 1990; Buster Edwards killed himself in 1994; Roy James died in 1997; Jimmy Hussey died last year after supposedly making a deathbed confession that he was the gang member who coshed the train driver, Jack Mills, who died of leukaemia seven years later.
  • (12) He is suspected of being the robber who, disguised as a police officer, was the first one to force his way into the depot on the night of the heist.
  • (13) Whereas taking bags full of cash into financial institutions in Thailand will manifest in being offered a comfortable seat and a cup of tea.” One former armed robber from south London has his own theory as to why the theft has attracted such attention and speculation.
  • (14) And it is through this work that she came across one former robber… Graham Godden's childhood was grim in comparison to Malton's.
  • (15) Electronic fraudsters will replace the stocking and shotgun robbers of the past.
  • (16) There were a lot of young men on the streets who were mainly out to play cops and robbers with the police.
  • (17) The prosecutor said that the struggle ensued after Wilson realised that Brown matched a description broadcast over police radio moments earlier for a grocery store robber.
  • (18) "But really what we're looking for is the fragments that the ancient tomb robbers left to us."
  • (19) But it was, perhaps, the 30-year sentences the robbers received that played a major part in creating the myths around them.
  • (20) Activists dressed up as highway robbers carried banners saying: "The Great British Royal Mail Robbery".

Rubber


Definition:

  • (n.) India rubber; caoutchouc.
  • (n.) An overshoe made of India rubber.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, rubs.
  • (n.) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.
  • (n.) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.
  • (n.) A whetstone; a rubstone.
  • (n.) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.
  • (n.) The cushion of an electrical machine.
  • (n.) One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath.
  • (n.) Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.
  • (n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It became fully operational in 1975, replacing its predecessor the rubber bullet.
  • (2) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
  • (3) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
  • (4) Dynamics in the changes was established among the workers from the production of "Synthetic rubber and latex", associated with the duration of occupational exposure to styrene and divinyl.
  • (5) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
  • (6) There were 45 deaths from lung cancer among curing workers compared to 24.6 expected based on the age- and calendar period-specific rates of other rubber workers.
  • (7) A preparation in a special triple bath was drawn through two rubber membranes dividing the strip into three segments.
  • (8) Porous polyethylene was thus better incorporated into the soft tissues than silicone rubber as long as the overlying soft tissues were not stressed by an oversized implant or inadequate soft tissue coverage.
  • (9) Neither pH nor composition of liner collection cone had an effect on postthaw acrosomal scores, but the time required for a 50% increase in severely damaged acrosomes was greater for spermatozoa collected in polyethylene than in rubber liner collection cones.
  • (10) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
  • (11) Two types are present, a crystalline (clear) form and a white, opaque form with pigmentation resulting from a diene rubber.
  • (12) Another man who is not moving fast enough is shot with a rubber bullet.
  • (13) "There is no debate over the conclusion that Abir was injured by a rubber bullet shot by border guards, which in turn leads to the conclusion that the shooting of Abir occurred out of negligence, or in violation of the rules of engagement," said Judge Orit Efal-Gabai.
  • (14) Mortality and morbidity from cancer among a cohort of 13,570 white male rubber workers were examined.
  • (15) An air chamber attached to a Hg-manometer has in an upper wall a round window 8 mm in diameter, closed by a 0.05 mm-thick rubber membrane.
  • (16) It consisted of a conventional precordial or esophageal probe connected to a microphone by a rubber adapter.
  • (17) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
  • (18) The angiomas of the skin may occur in 3 forms: large cavernous angiomas; blood sac looking like a blue rubber nipple, they can be emptied; irregular blue mark, sometimes with puncted blackish spots, they may not blanch on pressure.
  • (19) Linear distortion of the mercaptan (polysulfide) rubber base that takes place during setting is a cause of this problem.
  • (20) Herein we report a case occurring as pustulosis palmaris, that has been identified as an occupational allergic contact dermatitis to black rubber.