English Dictionary

scrub

/skɹʌb/

verb

(transitive) 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

She likes to scrub the floors until they shine.

意味（1）

(transitive) 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

to scrub a floor

意味（2）

(intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour

意味（3）

(intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious

to scrub hard for a living

意味（4）

(transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.

Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.

意味（5）

(databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets

The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.

意味（6）

(audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.

意味（7）

(audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.