scrub的意思|scrub的解释-里氏词典

Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), v. i.
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour;
hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a
living.

Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), n.
1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. ``A
sorry scrub.'' --Bunyan.

We should go there in as proper a manner as
possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
--Goldsmith.

2. Something small and mean.

3. A worn-out brush. --Ainsworth.

4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the
prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.

5. (Stock Breeding) One of the common live stock of a region
of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when
inferior in size, etc. [U.S.]

6. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and
impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also,
brush; -- called also {scrub brush}. See {Brush}, above.
[Australia & South Africa]
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

7. (Forestry) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{Scrub bird} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian passerine bird of the
family {Atrichornithid[ae]}, as {Atrichia clamosa}; --
called also {brush bird}.

{Scrub oak} (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish
species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the
Middle States is {Quercus ilicifolia}, a scraggy shrub;
that of the Southern States is a small tree ({Q.
Catesb[ae]i}); that of the Rocky Mountain region is {Q.
undulata}, var. Gambelii.

{Scrub robin} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian singing bird of the
genus {Drymodes}.

Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), a.
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
--Walpole.

No little scrub joint shall come on my board. --Swift.

{Scrub game}, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players.

{Scrub race}, a race between scrubs, or between untrained
animals or contestants.

Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scrubbed}
(skr[u^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scrubbing}.] [OE. scrobben,
probably of Dutch or Scand. origin; cf. Dan. skrubbe, Sw.
skrubba, D. schrobben, LG. schrubben.]
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; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

Rent a video of "Three Men and a Baby" in Midland, Texas, these days, and you'll find a commercial for Raindance Car Wash, Midland's local scrub shop where you can get your car cleaned for $6.95.
The space agency on Saturday removed a faulty auxiliary power unit that forced a scrub of Discovery's launch last Tuesday.
"They had to scrub down with Wet Wipes." The customer would be charged a transaction fee by the banks while the merchants would incur only the cost of installing the terminals.
Vice President Dan Quayle alluded to NASA's problems a few hours before the scrub in a televised speech to NASA employees from the Johnson Space Center in Texas.
Projects in the works at Engelberger's Transitions Research Corp. of Danbury, Conn., include development of robots that will sweep or scrub floors in airports or supermarkets and fetch drugs for pharmacists in mail-order warehouses.
The official reason for the scrub was "lightning within five miles of the launch pad." The launch was rescheduled for no earlier than Friday.
Her valets, called "cowboys" by Borden, scrub her down with Ivory soap to keep her skin soft.
Detectives also found bloodied clothing, including a blue scrub suit, jeans and socks, in a garbage container at the shelter where Smith was arrested.
Six smaller gun barrels are strewn nearby, amid alder and scrub maple trees.
It is protected on the north by natural ramparts of white limestone which rise like mammoth's teeth from the rocky scrub, or garrigues. The Cistercians came here in 1138.
Minimize passing sharp instruments between the surgeon and scrub nurse.
The fire, which began Monday afternoon, had destroyed more than 750 acres of pine forest and scrub and two unoccupied cottages by noon Tuesday, a police official said.
"Each day we have a scrub we usually lose 50 percent of our attendance," Varnes said.
The insects can carry diseases such as malaria, scrub typhus, lyme disease, dengue fever, sand fly fever and Rift Valley Fever.
The furrows in the abandoned corn fields are blurring as the scrub takes over. Then there is the debris, contaminated beyond recovery.
After the scrub, the space agency tentatively set Monday as a new launch target.
The governor thanked the thousands of workers who helped scrub the oil-fouled shorelines, proclaiming Friday "Oil Spill Workers Appreciation Day" in Alaska.
Brushes are used to scrub off moss, insect nests and clinging vegetation, the latter sometimes requiring injections of weed killer in a syringe.
Smoke blooms from the Nazi's left engine, a piece of his wing snaps off and then the Messerschmidt spirals downward, out of control, and smashes in flames into the sandy scrub.
We had barely reached the bend in the track which led through thick mopane scrub when the wild dog doubled back and met us face to face.
Right now he takes people out to fish in the bays behind the barrier islands that curve for hundreds of miles along the eastern coast of Texas, enclosing milky green lagoons behind ridges of sand and grassy scrub that rim the deep blue of the Gulf beyond.
For the most part, this and other retirement communities in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas are homely clusters of campers, trailers, vans and mobile homes, popping up on the scrub land as capriciously as the cactus.
The countdown, blacked out publicly for security reasons, stood at nine minutes when the scrub was called, sources reported.
Elsewhere in Eastern Europe, Hungarians may soon scrub pots and pans with Scotch-Brite scouring pads cut and packaged in their own country.
Students scrub dogs in tubs, cut their hair and dry it with a blow dryer or a heated cage dryer.
Over the years, it has become covered by scrub, bushes and the detritus of modern life. The tip is iron ore, industrial despoil from when Merthyr was the undisputed iron town of the world.
Police said Smith was wearing a blue scrub suit, a lab coat and a stethoscope when he attacked Hinnant on Saturday afternoon.
She also uses it to brush her teeth and scrub the concrete floors of the three-room clay ranchito where she lives with another family.
When land was being handed out, the village's Haida Corp. received mostly scrub timber and is just now struggling out of bankruptcy court.
A nurse became suspicious of Battle when he entered a labor-delivery scrub room wearing gloves from a neighboring hospital.

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