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Eraser
An eraser, (also called a rubber outside the United States, from the material first used) is an article of stationery that is used for removing marks from paper or skin (e.g. parchment or vellum). Erasers have a rubbery consistency and come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours. Some pencils have an eraser on one end. Less expensive erasers are made from synthetic rubber and synthetic soy-based gum, but more expensive or specialized erasers are vinyl, plastic, or gum-like materials.
At first, erasers were made to erase mistakes made with a pencil; later, more abrasive ink erasers were introduced. The term is also used for things that remove marks from chalkboards and whiteboards.
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Eraser (noun)
One who erases.
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Eraser (noun)
A thing used to written or drawn by a pen or a pencil.
“I have worn out the eraser on this pencil.”
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Eraser (noun)
A thing used to erase something written by chalk on a chalkboard, by marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc.
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Eraser (noun)
An overwriter program used to prevent data recovery.
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Rubber (noun)
Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
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Rubber (noun)
Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
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Rubber (noun)
An eraser.
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Rubber (noun)
A condom.
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Rubber (noun)
Someone or something which rubs.
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Rubber (noun)
One who rubs down horses.
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Rubber (noun)
One who practises massage.
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Rubber (noun)
The rectangular pad on the pitcher’s mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
“Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.”
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Rubber (noun)
Water resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
“Johnny, don’t forget your rubbers today.”
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Rubber (noun)
Tires, particularly racing tires.
“Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.”
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Rubber (noun)
In relation to a series of games or matches between two competitors where the overall winner of the series is the competitor which wins a majority of the individual games or matches:
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Rubber (noun)
The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).
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Rubber (noun)
A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
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Rubber (noun)
The game of rubber bridge.
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Rubber (adjective)
Not covered by funds on account.
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Rubber (verb)
To eavesdrop on a telephone call
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Rubber (verb)
To rubberneck; to observe with unseemly curiosity.
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Rubber (noun)
a tough elastic polymeric substance made from the latex of a tropical plant or synthetically
“a rubber plantation”
“a rubber dinghy”
“heat and sunlight may cause rubber to deteriorate”
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Rubber (noun)
a piece of rubber used for erasing pencil or ink marks
“a pencil with a rubber at the end”
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Rubber (noun)
rubber boots; galoshes.
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Rubber (noun)
a condom.
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Rubber (noun)
a contest consisting of a series of successive matches (typically three or five) between the same sides or people in cricket, tennis, and other games
“the opening rubber of Britain’s Davis Cup tie against Argentina”
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Rubber (noun)
a deciding game in a rubber of cricket, tennis, etc.
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Rubber (noun)
a unit of play in which one side scores bonus points for winning the best of three games
“she supplemented her income with her winnings at rubber bridge”
“the total score, including 700 for the rubber, was 2,620”
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