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Definition of scrubber in English: scrubbernoun ˈskrʌbəˈskrəbər 1A brush or other object used to clean something. Example sentencesExamples - After you wood burn, use a nylon pot scrubber to get rid of the waxy residue and give the gourd a more professional look.
- Avery remained silent and I took it as a sign that our conversation was over with so I made my way out to the hall, where the bucket and scrubber waited for me in a closet.
- I grumbled as I made my way to where the scrubber and bucket was, I was well aware of its location after using it for so often.
- Pouring the entire, minute bottle of shampoo onto the floor of the shower, Mya took the scrubber, and scrubbed at the floor.
- She looked around, and saw a bottle of hotel shampoo, and a brush scrubber.
- ‘Spray your mat and rub it down with a sponge, terry cloth or plastic scrubber,’ she instructs.
- Then scrub that area with a stiff brush, electric scrubber or very fine steel wool pads to loosen old wax.
- Use it with a puffy body scrubber (those net-like ball things).
- Whatever that is, I don't have one, so I used a stainless steel scrubber.
- Apply products containing an antibacterial agent like tri-closan and/or salicylic acid with a scrubber daily to cleanse and exfoliate hard-to-reach areas.
- The spokesman said a street scrubber and vacuum cleaner washes St Patrick's Street and Emmet Place only.
- ‘I was cleaning,’ she fumbled, looking down at the scrubber lying near her feet.
- 1.1 A person who cleans something.
laundry women and scrubbers Example sentencesExamples - I had a scrubber wash me down for 20 minutes, using scouring pad mittens and a really abrasive paste that helped to remove most of my dead skin.
- 1.2 An apparatus using water or a solution for purifying gases or vapours.
Example sentencesExamples - There are logically three possibilities: a dirty surface of some kind, particle-laden air, as in a scrubber or an air purifier - or possibly, both.
- Within six months the plant had installed scrubbers in the plant's chimneys.
- The chimneys at these fertiliser plants are fitted with scrubbers to trap these toxins, and all of this noxious material is collected in a solution known as scrubbers liquor.
- Holding a gas torch in his gloved hand, he burns some excess solder off the machine's scrubber.
- Cleaner gas technologies and scrubbers to remove sulphur would reduce emissions to half the UK quality standards by 2005.
- If the air is dirty, there must be a missing scrubber on a smokestack or a drainpipe that needs a filter.
- However, key potential improvements, such a requirement for sulphur scrubbers, have not been properly considered.
2British derogatory, informal A vulgar or slovenly woman, or one who has many casual sexual relationships. Example sentencesExamples - Well, look at it this way, I mean, when you come right down to it, that girl, she's a bit of a scrubber, isn't she?
- She's a manky, self-indulgent scrubber who is certainly no role model for young people.
- To be honest, even an 18 year old would struggle to pull that look off without looking like a cheap scrubber.
3Australian NZ An animal which lives in the scrub. - 3.1informal A person of unkempt appearance.
Rhymes blubber, clubber, grubber, lubber, rubber, snubber Definition of scrubber in US English: scrubbernounˈskrəbərˈskrəbər 1A brush or other object used to clean something. Example sentencesExamples - After you wood burn, use a nylon pot scrubber to get rid of the waxy residue and give the gourd a more professional look.
- Whatever that is, I don't have one, so I used a stainless steel scrubber.
- Apply products containing an antibacterial agent like tri-closan and/or salicylic acid with a scrubber daily to cleanse and exfoliate hard-to-reach areas.
- The spokesman said a street scrubber and vacuum cleaner washes St Patrick's Street and Emmet Place only.
- I grumbled as I made my way to where the scrubber and bucket was, I was well aware of its location after using it for so often.
- She looked around, and saw a bottle of hotel shampoo, and a brush scrubber.
- Avery remained silent and I took it as a sign that our conversation was over with so I made my way out to the hall, where the bucket and scrubber waited for me in a closet.
- Then scrub that area with a stiff brush, electric scrubber or very fine steel wool pads to loosen old wax.
- Pouring the entire, minute bottle of shampoo onto the floor of the shower, Mya took the scrubber, and scrubbed at the floor.
- ‘Spray your mat and rub it down with a sponge, terry cloth or plastic scrubber,’ she instructs.
- Use it with a puffy body scrubber (those net-like ball things).
- ‘I was cleaning,’ she fumbled, looking down at the scrubber lying near her feet.
- 1.1 A person who cleans something.
Example sentencesExamples - I had a scrubber wash me down for 20 minutes, using scouring pad mittens and a really abrasive paste that helped to remove most of my dead skin.
- 1.2 An apparatus using water or a solution for purifying gases or vapors.
Example sentencesExamples - Holding a gas torch in his gloved hand, he burns some excess solder off the machine's scrubber.
- Cleaner gas technologies and scrubbers to remove sulphur would reduce emissions to half the UK quality standards by 2005.
- If the air is dirty, there must be a missing scrubber on a smokestack or a drainpipe that needs a filter.
- Within six months the plant had installed scrubbers in the plant's chimneys.
- However, key potential improvements, such a requirement for sulphur scrubbers, have not been properly considered.
- The chimneys at these fertiliser plants are fitted with scrubbers to trap these toxins, and all of this noxious material is collected in a solution known as scrubbers liquor.
- There are logically three possibilities: a dirty surface of some kind, particle-laden air, as in a scrubber or an air purifier - or possibly, both.
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