Definizione monolingua

scrub

scrub (third-person singular simple present scrubs, present participle scrubbing, simple past and past participle scrubbed)

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour;
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
4. (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.

   Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.

5. (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets

   The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.

scrub (plural scrubs)

1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

   We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.

2. One who is a freak or unable to complete easy tasks.

   You are such a scrub! Instead of washing the dishes you put the used food on your face!

3. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
4. (US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.
5. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
6. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (gaming) One who is no longer new to a game but still exhibits novice tendencies.

   ""What a scrub.""

7. One not on the first team of players, a substitute.

scrub (comparative more scrub, superlative most scrub)

1. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

   ""How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!"" -Walpole.

   ""No little scrub joint shall come on my board."" -Swift.

Definizione dizionario scrub

	strofinare
	to rub hard

	annullare
	to call off a scheduled event; to cancel

	disdire
	to call off a scheduled event; to cancel

	eseguire lo scrubbing
	To move the timeline playhead manually in order to preview an animation storyboard.

	sfregare
	to rub hard

arbusto

boscaglia

bosco

fregare

lavare

macchia

pezzente

pulire

pulitura

raschiare

vegetazione del chaparral

Altri significati:

(transitive) 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.

(intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

(to) rub in

(medicine, plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.

One who is a freak or unable to complete easy tasks.

(gaming) One who is no longer new to a game but still exhibits novice tendencies.

to rub anything hard

(transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.

An instance of scrubbing.

A cancellation.

(intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour;

A worn-out brush.

One who scrubs.

One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

One not on the first team of players, a substitute.

A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.

Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.

(US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.