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say it: RUHB-ur
rubber is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "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". It is pronounced /ˈɹʌbɚ/ — RUHB-ur. It carries 8 recorded senses.
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
any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber
a contest consisting of a series of successive matches between the same sides
“he won three out of five games to take the rubber”
an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil
contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rubber come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.