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Rubbed vs Boxed - What's the difference?

rubbed | boxed |

As verbs the difference between rubbed and boxed

is that rubbed is (rub) while boxed is (box).

As an adjective boxed is

packed into a box or boxes.

rubbed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rub)

    • Anagrams

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    rub

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of rubbing.
    • Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
  • A difficulty or problem.
    • Therein lies the rub .
  • * III.i.71-75
    • To die, to sleep—/To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub !/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause
  • * , Episode 16
    • ...the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub .
  • In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
  • A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.

    • Verb

  • To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
  • To rub something against (a second thing).
  • * Sir T. Elyot
    • It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
  • To be rubbed against something.
  • To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
    • meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
  • * Milton
    • The smoothed plank, / New rubbed with balm.
  • (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
  • To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up'' or ''over .
    • to rub up silver
  • * South
    • The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.
  • To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.

    Derived terms

    * rubber * rubbing * rub elbows * rub in * rub it in * rub out * rub off * rub shoulders * rub up * rub up on

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    boxed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (box)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Packed into a box or boxes.
    • The books are boxed , ready for shipping.
  • In bridge and other card games if the cards in a pack are reversed face-up and face-down then the pack is said to be boxed.

    • Derived terms

    * boxed set * boxed shutters

    Synonyms

    * boxed up * packaged * packed