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American Chinese restaurant pioneer
Ruby Foo Wong (1904 – 1950), better known as Ruby Foo, was a restaurateur who founded the historic Ruby Foo's Den in Boston in 1929. One of the earliest
Ruby_Foo
Topics referred to by the same term
surfer Parker Foo (born 1998), Chinese ice hockey player Ruby Foo (1904–1950), restaurateur Sharin Foo (born 1973), Danish musician Spencer Foo (born 1994)
Foo_(disambiguation)
General-purpose programming language
Ruby is a general-purpose programming language designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. In Ruby, everything is an object,
Ruby_(programming_language)
Fine-dining restaurants
branches of Dos Caminos, two Strip House steak joints, Blue Water Grill and Ruby Foo's. Opened in 1987, Steve Hanson signed a partnership deal with Barry Sternlicht
B.R._Guest
Neighborhood in Boston
(1853–1944), preservationist and co-founder of today's Acadia National Park Ruby Foo (1904–1950), restaurateur William Heath (1737–1814), farmer, political
Jamaica_Plain
Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York
million. Afterward, Fosterlane attempted to evict Ruby Foo's, which prompted the restaurant to sue. Ruby Foo's ultimately stayed until 2015 and was replaced
750_Seventh_Avenue
Micronation in Canada
Joliet, Illinois. In 2025, the Aerican Empire hosted MicroCon 2025 at Ruby Foo's hotel in Montreal, which was attended by 120 participants from 48 micronations
Aerican_Empire
Biennial conference of micronationalists
micronation show and tell. MicroCon 2025 occurred between June 27–29 at Ruby Foo's Hotel in Montreal, Canada. Hosted by the Aerican Empire, the event welcomed
MicroCon
Variable associated with a specific object, and accessible for all its methods
scope. Foo foo; } } public class Foo { /* This is a member variable - a new instance of this variable will be created for each new instance of Foo. The
Member_variable
Series of walking tours in Boston
Denison House Amelia Earhart, aviator and social worker at Denison House Ruby Foo, restaurateur Margaret Fuller, journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate
Boston_Women's_Heritage_Trail
Computer programming principle
public Foo CreateFoo(int size, string name) { var foo = new Foo(); foo.Size = size; // Property setter foo.Name = name; // Property setter return foo; } C++
Uniform_access_principle
American economist and university administrator
sector: an econometric analysis." Shapiro's parents owned the famous Ruby Foo's in Montreal. After his father's untimely death, the restaurant was passed
Harold_T._Shapiro
Ability of a process to examine and modify itself
const foo: Foo = new Foo(); foo.hello(); // With reflection const foo: Foo = Reflect.construct(Foo); const hello: (this: Foo) => void = Reflect.get(foo, 'hello')
Reflective_programming
Defunct restaurant in New York City, U.S.
Leventhal, Ben (January 14, 2009). "Blockbuster: Steve Hanson Closes Fiamma, Ruby Foo's Uptown, Blue Water Grill Chicago". Eater NY. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
Fiamma_Osteria
keyword); the CALL keyword is required for subroutines. ^d Instead of using "foo", a string variable may be used instead containing the same value. ^eIn Crystal
Comparison of programming languages (basic instructions)
Comparison_of_programming_languages_(basic_instructions)
American actor, screenwriter, and film director (born 1954)
Sunrise (1988), Men Don't Leave (1990), Ruby (1992), The Sandlot (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Arliss_Howard
Programming language which compiles to JavaScript
language that compiles to JavaScript. It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python, and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability
CoffeeScript
Technique for creating lexically scoped first class functions
languages, such as Ruby, enable the programmer to choose the way return is captured. An example in Ruby: # Ruby # Closure using a Proc def foo f = Proc.new
Closure (computer programming)
Closure_(computer_programming)
Programming language feature
an object does. For example: a: Foo = Foo(10) b: Bar = Bar(11) print(type(a)) # prints <type 'Foo'> isinstance(a, Foo) # prints True print(isinstance(a
Type_introspection
Radio comedy adventure series by the ZBS Foundation
Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe is a science fiction radio drama series by the ZBS Foundation, written by Thomas Lopez. The first series, Ruby: Adventures of
Ruby_the_Galactic_Gumshoe
Programming mechanism
foo() to be used as a function in its own right. In most languages, we can define a new function implemented by composition. Example in C: float foo(float
Function composition (computer science)
Function_composition_(computer_science)
American actress (born 1949)
(1988), Child's Play 2 (1990), Flatliners (1990), Speed (1994), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), A Time To Kill (1996), Sordid
Beth_Grant
Argentine-Canadian singer and dancer (1909–1959)
Astaire Studios. She entertained at Montreal's Mount Royal Hotel and Ruby Foo's. She was a guest performer for the International College of Surgeons'
Inga_Andersen
Canadian businessman
Directors of the University Club of Montreal, the Edmonton Art Gallery, Ruby Foo's Restaurant and Hotel, the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football
Stephen_Leopold
In programming languages, the object or class the currently running code belongs to
mut foo: Foo = Foo::new(); // must called as a type-specified function foo.refer(); // prints "0". Foo::refer() has read-only access to the foo instance
This_(computer_programming)
development. require "foo.php"; foo::get("/hello/{name}", function($name) { return "Hello $name!"; }); Bottle for Python Camping for Ruby Express.js for Node
Microframework
Notation for ranges or parent directory
character cannot be used. In some programming languages (including Ada, Perl, Ruby, Apache Groovy, Kotlin, Haskell, and Pascal), a shortened two-dot ellipsis
Ellipsis (computer programming)
Ellipsis_(computer_programming)
GNU replacement for the Bourne shell
enclosing a full command string in single parentheses. $ echo foo foo $ ( echo foo ) foo $ For this simple case, the preceding two commands are equivalent
Bash_(Unix_shell)
Programming language family
snue has the value (bar baz) then `(foo ,snue) evaluates to (foo (bar baz)), while `(foo ,@snue) evaluates to (foo bar baz). The backquote is most often
Lisp_(programming_language)
General-purpose programming language
without adding "mut". let mut foo = 10; println!("The value of foo is {foo}"); foo = 20; println!("The value of foo is {foo}"); } Multiple let expressions
Rust_(programming_language)
Section of a source code file that is treated as if it were a separate file
inspired by Unix shell) and languages influenced by Perl, such as PHP and Ruby. JavaScript also supports this functionality via template literals, a feature
Here_document
Escape characters making an expression unreadable
closing delimiter and the closing quote. Ruby uses single quote to indicate raw string: filePath = 'C:\Foo\Bar.txt' It also has regex percent literals
Leaning_toothpick_syndrome
Subroutine call performed as final action of a procedure
for instance by transforming procedure foo(x) if p(x) return bar(x) else return foo(baz(x)) into procedure foo(x) while true if p(x) return bar(x) else
Tail_call
Boolean operator
class Foo { var _bar: String as Bar } var foo: Foo = null // the below will evaluate to null and not return a NullPointerException var bar = foo.Bar Safe
Safe_navigation_operator
Delimited series of characters that represent a string in code
usually quote marks. In many languages, the text "foo" is a string literal that encodes the text foo but there are many other variations. A bracketed string
String_literal
Method for computer memory management
with tss_. In C23, thread_local itself becomes a keyword. thread_local int foo = 0; C++11 introduces the thread_local keyword which can be used in the following
Thread-local_storage
Method in computer language design
keyword foo in a separate keyword namespace. Thus using reserved words, the tokens for __foo and foo are (identifier, __foo) and (identifier, foo) – different
Stropping_(syntax)
Class member in object-oriented programming
Property<unsigned int> bravo; }; int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { Foo foo; foo.alpha = 5; foo.bravo = 5.132f; Bar bar; bar.alpha = true; bar.bravo = true;
Property_(programming)
syntax of Ruby, but with a few modifications to support static typing: Method parameters usually need to have their types declared: def foo(a:String,
Mirah_(programming_language)
Semisyllabary used to transcribe Chinese
Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao (/dʒuːˌjɪn fuːˈhaʊ/ joo-YIN foo-HOW; 注音符號; Zhùyīn fúhào; 'phonetic symbols'), or simply Zhuyin, is a transliteration
Bopomofo
Function in a programming language, which evaluates a string
expression evaluator: foo = 2; alert(eval('foo + 2')); Example as a statement executor: foo = 2; eval('foo = foo + 2;alert(foo);'); One use of JavaScript's
Eval
British comedian (1909–1956)
Frigidair TV Show, played a fourteen-week engagement at Montreal club Ruby Foos and hosted his own TV panel Show Make a Match. Wakefield died from a heart
Oliver_Wakefield
Symbol affixed to a variable name
name, showing the variable's datatype or scope, usually a prefix, as in $foo, where $ is the sigil. Sigil, from the Latin sigillum, meaning a "little
Sigil_(computer_programming)
Datatype in programming
objects: " same as 'foo' at: 2 " 'foo' perform: #at: with: 2 " => $o " Thomas, Dave; Fowler, Chad; Hunt, Andy (2001). Programming Ruby the pragmatic programmers'
Symbol_(programming)
Style of object-oriented programming in which inheritance is based on reusing objects
"foo". foo.name; // Resolves to "foo". For another example: const foo = { one: 1, two: 2 }; // bar.[[prototype]] = foo const bar = Object.create(foo);
Prototype-based_programming
Control flow statement that branches according to a Boolean expression
false-value. In the following code, r is assigned to "foo" if x > 10, and to "bar" if not. r = x > 10 ? "foo" : "bar"; To accomplish the same using an if-statement
Conditional (computer programming)
Conditional_(computer_programming)
Function with variable number of arguments
behaving as **@ Ruby does not care about types of variadic arguments. def foo(*args) print args end foo(1) # prints `[1]=> nil` foo(1, 2) # prints `[1
Variadic_function
Script file for Microsoft computer operating systems
three quote characters: C:\>set foo="this string is enclosed in quotes" C:\>set foo=%foo:"="""% C:\>echo "test 1 %foo%" "test 1 """this string is enclosed
Batch_file
Computer language security feature
checking is a feature in some computer programming languages, such as Perl, Ruby or Ballerina designed to increase security by preventing malicious users
Taint_checking
Music festival in England
Difford, Louise Marshall and Ruby Turner. ^C. Run the Jewels' set featured a guest appearance from DJ Shadow. The set by Foo Fighters was notable for the
Glastonbury_Festival_2017
Lexical token that names a programming language's entities
simplify lexing by avoiding confusing with integer literals) – so foo, foo1, foo_bar, _foo are allowed, but 1foo is not – this is the definition used in earlier
Identifier (computer languages)
Identifier_(computer_languages)
Programming idiom for efficiently sorting a list by a computed key
{ foo($a) cmp foo($b) } @unsorted; While it is shorter to code, the naive approach here could be much less efficient if the key function (called foo in
Schwartzian_transform
How software progresses through its implementation
to call function foo(). Then, after completing the function body (printing "Hi"), control returns to after the call, line 7. void foo() { printf("Hi");
Control_flow
Set of rules defining correctly structured programs
The syntax of the Ruby programming language is broadly similar to that of Perl and Python. Class and method definitions are signaled by keywords, whereas
Ruby_syntax
Lightweight programming language
if (luaL_dostring(L, "function foo (x,y) return x+y end")) { lua_close(L); return -1; } // push value of global "foo" (the function defined above) //
Lua
Type of object in Java programming language
features: "Plain old JavaScript object" in JavaScript "Plain old Ruby object" (PORO) in Ruby "Plain old Documentation" (pod) in Perl Plain old CLR object
Plain_old_Java_object
Typographical symbol (@)
including array slices @array[2..5,7,9] and hash slices @hash{'foo', 'bar', 'baz'} or @hash{qw(foo bar baz)}. This use is known as a sigil. In PHP, it is used
At_sign
Programming construct
method foo can be a function object, i.e. a Proc, via &:foo and used via takes_a_functor(&:foo). Symbol.to_proc was officially added to Ruby on June
Function_object
British bassist (born 1946)
Diamanda Galás, R.E.M., Jars of Clay, Heart, Ben E. King, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighters, Lenny Kravitz, Cinderella, The Mission, La Fura dels Baus, the
John_Paul_Jones_(musician)
General-purpose programming language
foo()—where foo is a value (singleton object or class instance)—is short for foo.apply(), and foo() = 42 is short for foo.update(42). Similarly, foo(42)
Scala_(programming_language)
Apple's general-purpose, open-source, compiled programming language
function's return value. func foo(closure bar: () -> Int) -> Int { return bar() } // Without trailing closure syntax: foo(closure: { return 1 }) // With
Swift_(programming_language)
Set of rules defining correctly structured programs
languages such as Ruby or Groovy, single quotes and double quotes function identically, i.e. there is no string interpolation of $foo expressions. However
Python_syntax_and_semantics
Concept in computer programming
so: struct A { int a{}, int b{} }; void foo(A bar) { std::println("A.a = {}, A.b = {}", bar.a, bar.b); } foo({ .a = 1, .b = 3 }); In languages that do
Named_parameter
Storage segment
World"; static int b = 2023; // Initialized static global variable void foo (void) { static int c = 2023; // Initialized static local variable } The
Data_segment
Individual component of an HTML document
numbering. In an HTML attribute: <ol type="foo">; or in a CSS declaration: ol { list-style-type: foo; } – replacing foo with one of the following: A, B, C .
HTML_element
Conversion process for computer data
functions "read" and "print". A variable foo containing, for example, a list of arrays would be printed by (print foo). Similarly an object can be read from
Serialization
American actress and singer (1922–1965)
entertainer Ruby (née Butler) and Cyril Dandridge. Her father was a cabinetmaker and Baptist minister. Her parents separated before her birth. Ruby created
Dorothy_Dandridge
Data interface description language
a fictitious Foo Protocol: FooProtocol DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN FooQuestion ::= SEQUENCE { trackingNumber INTEGER, question IA5String } FooAnswer ::= SEQUENCE
ASN.1
Open-source programming tool
in C or C++ with scripting languages such as Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl, and other language implementations like C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, D
SWIG
Set of rules defining correctly structured programs for the C# programming language
contain letters, digits and underscores (_), and is case sensitive (FOO is different from foo). The language imposes the following restrictions on identifier
C_Sharp_syntax
Typographic symbol (underline)
classes unless the classes have the same name (__bar in class Foo will be mangled to _Foo__bar). By convention, members starting with a single underscore
Underscore
English indie rock band
2004–2012 (2012) and numerous singles, including the number one hit song "Ruby" (2007). Their album Employment enjoyed critical and commercial success with
Kaiser_Chiefs
ASN.1 (XML Encoding Rules) <foo /> <foo>true</foo> <foo>false</foo> <foo>685230</foo> <foo>6.8523015e+5</foo> <foo>A to Z</foo> <SeqOfUnrelatedDatatypes>
Comparison of data-serialization formats
Comparison_of_data-serialization_formats
American actor (born 1943)
(Mikey Day). Walken also introduced the musical guest Foo Fighters instead of host Nate Bargatze. Foo Fighters were the musical guest during his 2003 episode
Christopher_Walken
American musician (born 1975)
random. The first, called the Peacocks, was all-female and consisted of Ruby Amanfu, Carla Azar, Lillie Mae Rische, Maggie Björklund, Brooke Waggoner
Jack_White
American songwriter, producer and musician
of a cult writing figure in the world of soulful music. "In My Life" by Ruby Turner as well as Steven Dante's "It's Only Love" are key examples of his
Monte_Moir
Point in a computer program where instruction-execution begins
irb(main):004:0> def foo irb(main):005:1> 42 irb(main):006:1> end => nil irb(main):007:0> foo => 42 irb(main):008:0> [].foo NoMethodError: private method `foo' called
Entry_point
1999 studio album by Ruby Joe
Hot Rod Deluxe is the second album released by Ruby Joe. This effort was produced by Billy Zoom (of X) and joined by the horn section of Royal Crown Revue
Hot_Rod_Deluxe
British music awards ceremony
Two-time winner Foo Fighters
Brit_Awards_2008
Free and open-source object relational database management system
unquoted identifiers should be folded to upper case. Thus, Foo should be equivalent to FOO not foo according to the standard. Other shortcomings concern the
PostgreSQL
Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt
the FOO[D] MAR[KE]T, the local grocery store, was destroyed in a fire. On 4 November 2016, the set that was used for both Corner Gas and the Ruby was
Corner_Gas
2001 Hong Kong film by Dante Lam
directed by Dante Lam and starring Nick Cheung, Anthony Wong, Samuel Pang, and Ruby Wong. It follows the antics of two inept triad bosses on the run following
Runaway_(2001_film)
General-purpose programming language
Example: // returns null if... // - foo() returns null, // - or if foo() is non-null, but bar() returns null, // - or if foo() and bar() are non-null, but baz()
Kotlin
"super" in Ruby, unlike in other languages, is actually a call to the method of the same name in the superclass. So super(args) in Ruby is equivalent
Comparison of programming languages (object-oriented programming)
Comparison_of_programming_languages_(object-oriented_programming)
Programming language feature
(funcall #'foo bar baz). Python Explicit partial application with functools.partial since version 2.5, and operator.methodcaller since version 2.6. Ruby The
First-class_function
2009 Chinese film
Chinese-Korean co-production starring Zhang Ziyi, So Ji-sub, Fan Bingbing, Ruby Lin, Peter Ho, and Yao Chen. This movie is a co-production between Perfect
Sophie's_Revenge
General-purpose, object-oriented programming language
(void)setMyValue:(id)foo; In the above statement, foo may be of any class. - (void)setMyValue:(id<NSCopying>)foo; In the above statement, foo may be an instance
Objective-C
code. Curl Curl supports block comments with user-defined tags as in |foo# ... #foo|. Lua Like raw strings, there can be any number of equals signs between
Comparison of programming languages (syntax)
Comparison_of_programming_languages_(syntax)
b.iv, application for .FLY, ICANN. Accessed on line 21 November 2014. ".foo". Icannwiki.org. Retrieved 21 October 2014. ".game Domain Delegation Data"
List of English-language generic Internet top-level domains
List_of_English-language_generic_Internet_top-level_domains
American punk rock band
Retrieved April 18, 2023. "First week album sales for AVENGED SEVENFOLD, FOO FIGHTERS, PUPIL SLICER, RANCID, SPY, and more". lambgoat.com. June 13, 2023
Rancid_(band)
Canadian voice actress (born 1973)
McLachlan, Madonna, The Tragically Hip, as well as alternative music bands Hole, Foo Fighters, No Doubt, and Radiohead. She enjoys singing but realized she wasn't
Katie_Griffin
Open-source software platform for remote configuring and managing computers
groups. An example inventory format (INI file): 192.168.6.1 [webservers] foo.example.com bar.example.com This configuration file specifies three nodes:
Ansible_(software)
Unambiguous name in computer code
referring to ./foo/bar/baz.sh in /home/user/quz, which uses a relative pathname, the fully qualified name would be /home/user/quz/foo/bar/baz.sh. In DOS
Fully_qualified_name
"All My Life" Foo Fighters 2007-11-08Nov. 8, 2007 Foo Fighters Pack 2007 "PretenderThe Pretender"m Foo Fighters 2007-11-08Nov. 8, 2007 Foo Fighters Pack
List of songs in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
List_of_songs_in_Guitar_Hero_III:_Legends_of_Rock
Text processor used with C and C++ and other programming tools
definition: #define XSTR(s) STR(s) #define STR(s) #s #define FOO 4 STR(FOO) expands to "FOO" and XSTR(FOO) expands to "4". A macro argument cannot be combined
C_preprocessor
Multi-paradigm system programming language
function that parses Foo source code // and returns equivalent D code import FooToD; void main() { mixin(fooToD(import("example.foo"))); } Memory is usually
D_(programming_language)
American annual music festival
"Lollapalooza confirma cancelamento de show do Foo Fighters neste domingo" [Lollapalooza confirms that this Sunday's Foo Fighters concert is cancelled] (in Portuguese)
Lollapalooza
applications built in Ruby and Flash. His best known open-source software creation is of RubyGems, a package manager for the Ruby programming language
Richard_Kilmer
Chinese actress
Ruby Yap (叶俞均; born 28 December 1991) is a Malaysian-born Chinese feature film, drama series, theatre drama and radio drama all-round actress and singer
Ruby_Yap
Relational database programming language
folded to upper case. Thus, according to the standard, Foo should be equivalent to FOO, not foo. Popular implementations of SQL commonly omit support for
SQL
RUBY FOO
RUBY FOO
Girl/Female
Tamil
Ruby, Pearl
Boy/Male
Tamil
Ruby
Male
English
Pet form of English Rudolph, RUDY means "famous wolf."
Male
Spanish
Spanish form of Hebrew Reuwben, RUBÉN means "behold, a son!"Â
Female
English
English name derived from the name of the precious stone, from Latin ruber, RUBY means "red." This is the birthstone for July. Compare with masculine Ruby.Â
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Red Jewel
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Bengali, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Gujarati, Indian, Jamaican, Kannada, Latin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Sikh, Swedish, Tamil
Reddish; Red Colored Precious Gemstone; Red; Ruby Jewel; Reborn; The Red Gemstone
Girl/Female
French American English Latin
Jewel.
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Ruby, RUBYE means "red" or "ruby."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Manikya | மாஂநீகà¯à®¯à®¾
Ruby
Manikya | மாஂநீகà¯à®¯à®¾
Girl/Female
Muslim
Ruby, Pearl
Male
English
Pet form of English Reuben, RUBY means "behold, a son." Compare with feminine Ruby.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Hebrew, Jamaican
The Red Gemstone; Behold; A Son; Red
Male
English
Pet form of English Reuben, RUBE means "behold, a son!"Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places so named in Merseyside (formerly in Cheshire) and County Durham or from Roby in Merseyside (formerly in Lancashire). The first is named from Old Scandinavian rá ‘pole’ + býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.French : variant of Rabin.German : habitational name from Raby in Bohemia or perhaps from Rabingen in Lower Saxony.Probably from the Saintonge region of France, a Raby or Rabis was documented in Quebec City in 1689, with the secondary surname Saintonge.
Girl/Female
Muslim American
Ruby. Precious stone.
Male
Spanish
Spanish pet form of Portuguese/Spanish Rodrigo, RUY means "famous power."
Boy/Male
Indian, Modern
Ruby
Girl/Female
Hindu
Ruby, Pearl
Girl/Female
Hindu
Red stone
RUBY FOO
RUBY FOO
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
To Worship
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Of Good Fortune; Fortunate
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
God
Surname or Lastname
Americanized spelling of German Kahle. Compare Kahley or Köhler (see Kohler).English and Manx
Americanized spelling of German Kahle. Compare Kahley or Köhler (see Kohler).English and Manx : variant spelling of Caley.
Boy/Male
Tamil
The Lord of the lords
Boy/Male
Tamil
Saumitra | ஸௌமிதà¯à®°à®¾
Lord Lakshman son of Sumitra)
Boy/Male
Hindu
Sunny, A bird
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Respected Voice
Boy/Male
Indian
Name of a mountain
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Son of Clouds
RUBY FOO
RUBY FOO
RUBY FOO
RUBY FOO
RUBY FOO
v. t.
To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body.
v. i.
To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.
n.
Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.
imp. & p. p.
of Ruby
n.
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
a.
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
pl.
of Ruby
v. t.
To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper.
n.
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
v. t.
To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver.
v. i.
To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.
n.
That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ruby
v. i.
To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.
n.
A little ruby.
n.
A ruby.
v. t.
To rub and cleanse without wetting.
v. t.
To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.
n.
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.