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Meaning of scrub
noun
- One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. Example: What a scrub! Instead of washing the dishes she put the used food on her face!
- A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant Example: oak scrub
- (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 breeding.
- Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
adjective
- Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
noun
- An instance of scrubbing.
- A cancellation.
- A worn-out brush.
- One who scrubs.
- (in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
verb
- 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 Example: to scrub a floor
- To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- To be diligent and penurious Example: to scrub hard for a living
- To call off a scheduled event; to cancel. Example: Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.
- To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets Example: The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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