| 释义 |
scrub
I. \ˈskrəb\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, alteration of schrobbe, shrobbe shrub — more at shrub
1.
a. : a stunted tree or shrub
< tundra vegetation … consists of moss, lichen, dwarf scrubs and peat moor — W.G.East >
b. : vegetation consisting chiefly of dwarf or stunted trees and shrubs that is often thick and impenetrable and grows in poor soil or in sand
< mallee scrub >
< pine scrub >
c. : a tract of country covered with such vegetation (as a palmetto barren of the southern United States)
2.
a. : a domestic animal of mixed or unknown parentage and usually without definite type or markings
b. : mongrel
3.
a. : a person of insignificant size or social standing : nobody, runt
< some pimpled dirty little scrub in sandals — Virginia Woolf >
b.
(1) : a person of secondary rank : subordinate
< represented in the Far East … by incompetents and scrubs — Richard Watts >
(2) : a hotel or restaurant worker who substitutes for or assumes part of the responsibility of his superior
4.
a. : a sports contest involving random individuals or teams having fewer than the regular number of players; specifically : a softball or baseball game in which players participate as individuals rather than as team members and rotate to new positions as each out is made
b.
(1) : a player not belonging to the first string
(2) : a team composed of such players
II. verb
(scrubbed ; scrubbed ; scrubbing ; scrubs)
Etymology: of Low German or Scandinavian origin; akin to Middle Low German & Middle Dutch schrobben, schrubben to scrub, Swedish skrubba, Danish skrubbe
transitive verb
1.
a. : to clean with abrasive action (as by using a washboard or a stiff brush) : scour
< scrub clothes >
< scrub a floor >
< we scrubbed her with lye and swabbed her down with seawater — Kenneth Roberts >
b. : to subject to friction : rub, scratch
< scrubbed his eyes in disbelief — Time >
< rubber tires scrubbed the runway — Horace Sutton >
c. : to cleanse and disinfect (the hands and forearms) before participating in surgery
2.
a. : to wash (a gas or vapor) with water, a light hydrocarbon oil, or other liquid to remove impurities or recover desired components
b. : to separate from a gas — often with out
< the light oil scrubbed from carbureted water gas >
< scrub out acetone from tank acetylene >
3. : to wipe out : cancel, eliminate
< under the tight moon-shooting timetable, a brief delay … can scrub the shoot — Newsweek >
< 200 housing units blueprinted for construction there had been scrubbed when the … budget was reduced — New York Times >
intransitive verb
1. : to do washing and scouring
< must scrub and clean for you the rest of my life — W.M.Gallichan >
2. : to get ready for surgery by scrubbing
< the surgeon was preparing to scrub — H.F. & Katharine Pringle >
III. noun
(-s)
1. : an act or instance of scrubbing; specifically : a surgical scrub-up
2.
a. : an implement used for scrubbing : brush
< churn brushes, deck scrubs … and sundry others — Country Life >
b. : something that resembles a scrub brush
< a square military scrub of a moustache — William Sansom >
3. : one that scrubs : drudge
< hotel scrubs and chambermaids > |