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| scrubbing | |
| 1. n. An act of cleaning in which something is scrubbed. |  |
| scrub | |
| 1. adj. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby. | |
| 2. n. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. | |
| 3. n. 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! | |
| 4. n. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant | |
| oak scrub | |
| 5. n. (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 breedi | |
| 6. n. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush. | |
| 7. n. One not on the first team of players; a substitute. | |
| 8. v. 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 | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious | |
| to scrub hard for a living | |
| 11. v. To call off a scheduled event; to cancel. | |
| Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather. | |
| 12. v. (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. | |
| 13. v. (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. | |
| 14. v. (audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface. | |
| Synonyms: seek | |
| 15. n. An instance of scrubbing. | |
| 16. n. A cancellation. | |
| 17. n. A worn-out brush. | |
| 18. n. One who scrubs. | |
| 19. n. (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery. | |
| 20. n. (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers). | |
| 21. n. An exfoliant for the body. | |
