(v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
(v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
(n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
(n.) Something small and mean.
(n.) A worn-out brush.
(n.) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
(n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
(a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated a very good comparability between the dot-blot assay and IF-tests, and this dot-blot method was ascertained as a simple and useful method for the scrub typhus serodiagnosis.
(2) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
(3) The first assistant is part of a medical team that consists of the surgeon, the first assistant, the scrub nurse or technician, and the circulating nurse.
(4) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
(5) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(6) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
(7) UK prison population is biggest in western Europe Read more The final version of the inspection report remains highly critical of conditions in Wormwood Scrubs, where outcomes for the 1,258 men held there are still “unacceptably poor”.
(8) Comparison of the two quantitative techniques showed that the contact plate is a reliable and convenient alternative to the scrub technique for the quantification of Staphylococcus aureus, micrococci and coagulase negative staphylococci.
(9) This is going to be the biggest nomination fight since Clarence Thomas – and that’s if the nominee comes through the door scrubbed and clean as possible,” he said “Given the bad blood between the parties, the protests, the growing resistance to Trump, we’re going to see more activism, more money spent around this nomination.
(10) How often do scrub nurses hand surgeons swabs, and how often is thought given to their shape, size and composition and their suitability for use inside our patients?
(11) Since human endothelial cells are known to retain their in vivo structural and functional qualities when cultured in vitro, it is likely that these effects are similar to those which occur during the infectious process in human scrub typhus.
(12) Burr said that language in the bill would require companies to “remove all personal information before that data is transferred to the federal government”, and that the Department of Homeland Security would scrub any data not cleaned by companies.
(13) Current management of hand injuries includes debridement by abrasive scrubbing with anti-bacterial detergents, surgical excision, or pressure irrigation.
(14) The duration of the scrub had no significant effect on the numbers of bacteria when povidone-iodine was used.
(15) For the evaluation of normal skin flora, Williamson and Kligman's scrub method is the most commonly used.
(16) Moisture pickup was adversely affected by air scrubbing; control carcasses had a moisture pickup of 5.8%, whereas, air-scrubbed carcasses had a moisture pickup of 13.9%.
(17) By this time I am off the track and perilously close to slipping over a cliff, which sounds dramatic but there is lots of scrub below to break my fall and bones before I would end up in the water.
(18) The reference preparation was 7.5% povidone-iodine (Betadine Surgical Scrub); the test agent was 4% chlorhexidine gluconate combined with 4% isopropyl alcohol (Hibiclens).
(19) The detergent scrub technique was used for harvesting corneocytes from three body regions (forehead, palm, and sole) of normal persons (n = 20) under casual conditions and after thorough defattening of the skin with 70% isopropyl alcohol or petrol.
(20) The advantages are: diminished risk of infections, local anesthesia instead of general anesthesia, applicability by the cardiologist in the catheterization-laboratory or under a simple fluoroscopy-unit, short stay of patients in the hospital without transfers to other departments, few personnel (1 scrubbed doctor, 1 non-scrubbed nurse), recognition of venous anomalies (singular left superior caval vein) without useless incisions for the patient.
Scrubby
Definition:
(superl.) Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Built on a scrubby ridge of limestone pavement, the houses of Khirbet Susiya are closely overlooked by a neighbouring Israeli settlement built on land expropriated from the villagers – illegal under international law – and, unlike the Palestinian village, connected to public services.
(2) Photograph: Landmark Trust It’s supposed to be an easy, hour-and-a-half walk but on the boat we sit in summer dresses and sandals watching what seems to be an awful lot of scrubby, mountainous terrain float by.
(3) Only during the last few weeks of the conflict did the world begin to take notice of events in the rough, scrubby plains of northern Sri Lanka.
(4) A few suspiciously straight lines in a corner of a 1951 aerial photograph showing acres of featureless scrubby heath have led archaeologists to a lost first world war landscape.
(5) In a terrain that was recently farmland and is now a butchered waste, the most depressing detail is the featureless, scrubby horizon.
(6) And that is what he has done by turning an insignificant protest in a scrubby little park into a national emergency.
(7) About four minutes in, it switches to Bergdahl waiting for release in a battered pickup truck in scrubby wilderness just off a dirt road.
(8) Behind the campus of the Hebrew University a scrubby hill drops steeply to the East Jerusalem village of Isawiya.
(9) Where the scrubby fields of central Gaza meet the Israeli border fence, there is a locked gate.
(10) As you fly west over Texas, the lush pastureland and whitewashed farms gradually give way to scrubby hills dotted with trailer-homes - and then eventually to the desert, inhabited solely by clusters of oil wells.
(11) It was scrubby and nicotine-hued for months last year after thousands of occupying protesters erected tents, noodle stalls and pop-up hair salons during efforts to topple the elected government.
(12) I didn’t think they’d want to come out here.” For “here” is not the leafy London suburb of the same name but an isolated and scrubby corner of a British military base at Dhekelia, on Cyprus’s south-eastern coast.
(13) The returning refugees whose makeshift homes are scattered in the scrubby forest around the A9 exist on food rations and occasional days of paid labour.
(14) On Friday, at Central Islip’s vast federal courthouse, which rises like a white edifice in scrubby woodland five miles from where the murders took place, President Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, restated his commitment to helping the police battle street gangs.
(15) In an enormous clay pit set in scrubby woodland outside the hamlet of Tomasica, British, American and Bosnian forensic experts from the ICMP, along with counterparts from Bosnia's Missing Persons Institute, are digging up hundreds of muddy, grey-brown corpses.
(16) In the summer, Davies says, the flock ditches the scrubby shelter of the odd cluster of eucalypts to follow the turbine’s shade, stretching out along the shadow cast by the 80m pole like a woolly sundial.
(17) There's a group of people seen from far off in the scrubby brown landscape.
(18) It took them 10 days to reach Pathai, a scrubby village in remote central Jonglei.
(19) Boyce was narrowly the bookies' favourite for the prize, ahead of painter George Shaw, who chronicles the scrubby, dilapidated suburban streets of his native Midlands.
(20) In a terrain that was recently farmland, the most depressing detail is the featureless, scrubby horizon These dispirited infantrymen hardly even have the luxury of a trench; they huddle in what looks like a gash left behind by a shell, and may have been told – as were many of their colleagues – to use clods of earth as camouflage, burying themselves alive.