Rubber

(noun.) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products.

(noun.) any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber.

(adj.) returned for lack of funds; 'a rubber check'; 'a no-good check' .

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• The shoes are then covered with a coat of rubber varnish, and are put into cars and run into the vulcanizing ovens, where they remain from six to seven hours at a temperature of about 275°. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• But nothing that could be done would prevent the rubber from getting soft in summer and hard and brittle in the winter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There, within easy reach of the rubber trees, they set up their camp and the actual work of harvesting the rubber crop begins. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• How is Crude Rubber Received Here? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This proving a failure, he, in 1830, turned his attention to the improvement of rubber goods. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Here there were no white men, no soldiers, nor any rubber or ivory to be gathered for cruel and thankless taskmasters. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• At K this spring is clamped and insulated from the iron work by two pieces of hard rubber. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Attach a small toy bell to a glass rod (Fig. 166) by means of a rubber tube and pass the rod through one of two openings in a rubber cork. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Oh, I assure you, mother's very fond of a rubber,' said Mr. Wardle; 'ain't you, mother? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The wet sheets of rubber are cut in square pieces, placed on perforated tin pans and loaded into the dryer, which will hold about eight hundred pounds of rubber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Up to this time, all the rubber was called Para rubber, named from the town of Para in Brazil, from which all rubber was shipped. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The first embossed metal plates were linked together in the form of an endless chain, similar to the rubber type plates. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The greatest of all applications of rubber are to be found in the manufacture of boots and shoes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In 1770 Dr. Priestley published the fact that this rubber had become notable for rubbing out pencil marks, bits of it being sold for a high price for that purpose. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Goodyear discovers process of Vulcanizing Rubber. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Amy was fretting because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn't find her rubbers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They had solemn rubbers of whist, when they went upstairs after drinking, and their carriages were called at half past ten. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Get me my rubbers, and put these slippers with our things. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Sedate and solemn were the score of rubbers in which Mr. Pickwick and the old lady played together; uproarious was the mirth of the round table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He was winning, but there seemed to be no reason why the renewal of rubbers should end, and Lydgate at last took his leave. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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