English
scrub
Pronunciation Adjective

scrub

  1. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
    • 1743, Horace Walpole
      How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
    • , Jonathan Swift
      No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
Noun

scrub (plural scrubs)

  1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
    • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
      A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind.
    • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
      We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
    • 1999, TLC (band), "No Scrubs" (song)
      A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly
      And is also known as a buster
      Always talkin' about what he wants
      And just sits on his broke ass […]
  2. One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
    What a scrub! Instead of washing the dishes she put the used food on her face!
  3. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant
    oak scrub
  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. One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
Translations
  • Russian: ничто́жество
Translations
  • Russian: замо́рыш
Translations Verb

scrub (scrubs, present participle scrubbing; 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
    to scrub a floor
    to scrub your fingernails
  2. (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious
    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.
  6. (audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
  7. (audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
    Synonyms: seek
Translations Translations Noun

scrub (plural scrubs)

  1. An instance of scrubbing.
  2. A cancellation.
    • 1988, AIAA 26th Aerospace Sciences Meeting: January 11-14
      Unacceptable winds aloft caused four scrubs and one hold; adverse weather caused a scrub; […]
  3. A worn-out brush.
  4. One who scrubs.
  5. (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
  6. (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
    • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)
      A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
  7. An exfoliant for the body.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: blouse médicale
  • German: Kasack
  • Russian: костю́м хиру́рга


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