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Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.
Sandra Lee

Meaning of "scrubbing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SCRUBBING

scrubbing  [ˈskrʌbɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCRUBBING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Scrubbing is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb scrubbing in English.

WHAT DOES SCRUBBING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Data scrubbing

Data scrubbing is an error correction technique which uses a background task that periodically inspects memory for errors, and then corrects the error using a copy of the data. It reduces the likelihood that single correctable errors will accumulate; thus, reducing the risk of uncorrectable errors.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SCRUBBING

PRESENT

Present
I scrub
you scrub
he/she/it scrubs
we scrub
you scrub
they scrub
Present continuous
I am scrubbing
you are scrubbing
he/she/it is scrubbing
we are scrubbing
you are scrubbing
they are scrubbing
Present perfect
I have scrubbed
you have scrubbed
he/she/it has scrubbed
we have scrubbed
you have scrubbed
they have scrubbed
Present perfect continuous
I have been scrubbing
you have been scrubbing
he/she/it has been scrubbing
we have been scrubbing
you have been scrubbing
they have been scrubbing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I scrubbed
you scrubbed
he/she/it scrubbed
we scrubbed
you scrubbed
they scrubbed
Past continuous
I was scrubbing
you were scrubbing
he/she/it was scrubbing
we were scrubbing
you were scrubbing
they were scrubbing
Past perfect
I had scrubbed
you had scrubbed
he/she/it had scrubbed
we had scrubbed
you had scrubbed
they had scrubbed
Past perfect continuous
I had been scrubbing
you had been scrubbing
he/she/it had been scrubbing
we had been scrubbing
you had been scrubbing
they had been scrubbing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will scrub
you will scrub
he/she/it will scrub
we will scrub
you will scrub
they will scrub
Future continuous
I will be scrubbing
you will be scrubbing
he/she/it will be scrubbing
we will be scrubbing
you will be scrubbing
they will be scrubbing
Future perfect
I will have scrubbed
you will have scrubbed
he/she/it will have scrubbed
we will have scrubbed
you will have scrubbed
they will have scrubbed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been scrubbing
you will have been scrubbing
he/she/it will have been scrubbing
we will have been scrubbing
you will have been scrubbing
they will have been scrubbing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would scrubbing
you would scrubbing
he/she/it would scrubbing
we would scrubbing
you would scrubbing
they would scrubbing
Conditional continuous
I would be scrubbing
you would be scrubbing
he/she/it would be scrubbing
we would be scrubbing
you would be scrubbing
they would be scrubbing
Conditional perfect
I would have scrubbing
you would have scrubbing
he/she/it would have scrubbing
we would have scrubbing
you would have scrubbing
they would have scrubbing
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been scrubbing
you would have been scrubbing
he/she/it would have been scrubbing
we would have been scrubbing
you would have been scrubbing
they would have been scrubbing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you scrub
we let´s scrub
you scrub
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to scrub
Past participle
scrubbed
Present Participle
scrubbing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SCRUBBING


blubbing
ˈblʌbɪŋ
clubbing
ˈklʌbɪŋ
drubbing
ˈdrʌbɪŋ
dubbing
ˈdʌbɪŋ
landlubbing
ˈlændˌlʌbɪŋ
nightclubbing
ˈnaɪtˌklʌbɪŋ
nubbing
ˈnʌbɪŋ
overdubbing
ˈəʊvəˌdʌbɪŋ
rubbing
ˈrʌbɪŋ
slubbing
ˈslʌbɪŋ
stubbing
ˈstʌbɪŋ
underclubbing
ˌʌndəˈklʌbɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCRUBBING

scrub bird
scrub brush
scrub fowl
scrub round
scrub turkey
scrub typhus
scrub-bash
scrubbable
scrubbed
scrubber
scrubbier
scrubbiest
scrubbily
scrubbiness
scrubbing brush
scrubby
scrubland
scrubs
scrubwoman
scrubwomen

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCRUBBING

attention-grabbing
back-stabbing
blabbing
bobbing
climbing
cribbing
grabbing
headline-grabbing
hobbing
mobbing
money-grubbing
nabbing
ribbing
robbing
sobbing
stabbing
subbing
swabbing
throbbing
tubbing
webbing

Synonyms and antonyms of scrubbing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SCRUBBING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «scrubbing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of scrubbing

Translation of «scrubbing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SCRUBBING

Find out the translation of scrubbing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of scrubbing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «scrubbing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

擦洗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fregar
570 millions of speakers

English

scrubbing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्क्रबिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تنقية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

очистка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esfregando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ক্রাবিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lavage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menggosok
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schrubben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スクラブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

세정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Scrubbing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chà
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்க்ரப்பிங்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घासणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ovma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lavaggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szorowanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

очистка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spălarea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τρίψιμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skrop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skrubb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skrubbing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of scrubbing

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCRUBBING»

The term «scrubbing» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.350 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SCRUBBING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «scrubbing» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «scrubbing» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about scrubbing

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5 QUOTES WITH «SCRUBBING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word scrubbing.
1
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!
2
Sandra Lee
Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.
3
Joanna Lumley
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
4
Britt Robertson
I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly because it comes out with those little white dots and then you can't get those out. And you have to rewash them.
5
Lucy Stone
If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCRUBBING»

Discover the use of scrubbing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to scrubbing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dry Scrubbing Technologies for Flue Gas Desulfurization
Dry Scrubbing Technologies for Flue Gas Desulfurization represents a body of research that was sponsored by the State of Ohio's Coal Development Office for the development of technologies that use coal in an economic, environmentally-sound ...
Barbara Toole-O'Neil, Ohio Coal Development Office, 1998
2
Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Scrubbing Machine
. This is another gem from that master storyteller/illustrator combo that is guaranteed to get toddlers giggling and begging for it to be read again!
Joy Cowley, 2006
3
Safety Standards and Infection Control for Dental Hygienists
Scrubbing contaminated instruments removes remaining visible bioburden, making sterilization more effective. There are two forms of instrument scrubbing: manually or using an ultrasonic cleaner, a mechanical scrubbing device. Although ...
Ellen Dietz-Bourguignon, Raula Badavinac, 2001
4
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
the bacteria present are water containing. In order to place them in this condition a thorough scrubbing of the skin with brush, warm water and soap is essential, and it is only after this preparation that the action of alcohol can come into play, ...
‎1909
5
Prevention and Control of Accidental Releases of Hazardous Gases
In addition to high surface area, foam scrubbing for control of emergency releases offers positive control of vapors through encapsulation. That is, the " shell" of aqueous liquid surrounding each bubble represents a barrier (albeit a fragile and ...
Vasilis M. Fthenakis, 1993
6
CIO
says Geoffrey Smith, a product manager at Platinum Technology Inc., a data scrubbing software vendor in Oak Brook Terrace, 111. "In those cases, data scrubbing tools offer the only practical way to quickly convert large amounts of data.
7
Semiconductor Industry: Wafer Fab Exhaust Management
3.1.2.1 Point-Of-Use Wet Scrubbing Systems Exhaust gas comes into contact with a liquid in which the contaminants transfer from the gas phase to the liquid phase and dissolve in the liquid. In some cases, the contaminant to be scrubbed will ...
J. Michael Sherer, 2005
8
Canadian Patent Office Record
In a scrubbing apparatus the combination comprising a casing, rollers adapted to support the casing, a plurality of water holding compartments In the casing having openings therein, valve casings connected with the openings and provided ...
Canada. Patent Office, 1906
9
The Scrubbing Machine
Mrs. Wishy-Washy buys a new scrubbing machine to clean her house and gets more than she bargains for.
Joy Cowley, 2002
10
Radiation Effects in Semiconductors
10.3.1 Scrubbing Memory scrubbing has been used for many years to increase the reliability of memory within radiation environments [8]. Memory scrubbing requires the ability to detect upsets within a memory and to use this information to  ...
Krzysztof Iniewski, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCRUBBING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term scrubbing is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Audacity gains scrubbing, seeking, effect presets
A new Ctrl+click "scrub play mode" enables playback -- both forwards and ... Hold down the left mouse button while scrubbing and Audacity switches to seek ... «BetaNews, Jul 15»
2
Cheeky orangutan copies humans by stealing bar of SOAP and …
A cheeky orangutan was caught red-handed scrubbing herself clean with a bar of soap – which she stole from a nearby boat. Photographer Kevin Su, 31, shot ... «Mirror.co.uk, Feb 15»
3
Former Columbus Superintendent Charged in Data Scrubbing
Harris is the third Columbus school official to face criminal charges linked to a data scrubbing scandal. A state audit last year showed thousands of student ... «StateImpact Ohio, Jan 15»
4
Scrubbing Bubbles® Survey Reveals Surprising Habits Behind …
The Scrubbing Bubbles® The Dirty Work Index1 asked consumers nationwide to admit to their unconventional bathroom habits to prove people are doing much ... «PR Newswire, Dec 14»
5
Revised state school report cards show data scrubbing had little …
Revised school report cards released by the state this morning for Toledo Public Schools show that data scrubbing had little effect on test scores in 2012 and ... «Toledo Blade, Aug 14»
6
20 Columbus schools see ratings drop after data fixed
That sleight of hand meant that the students' test scores and absences didn't count against the school, a process known as “scrubbing.” For the 2010-11 year, ... «Columbus Dispatch, Aug 14»
7
Horizontal scrubbing at a 45 degree angle with a pencil grip …
However, no large studies have been carried out to determine whether it is really more effective than other simpler methods – including the most basic scrub ... «The Independent, Aug 14»
8
More “scrubbing” found at CPS
The Ohio Department of Education has found yet more evidence of “data scrubbing” at Cincinnati Public Schools. It says the district improperly reported the ... «Cincinnati.com, Aug 14»
9
Photos: Tulip Festival
Albany High School seniors in traditional Dutch dress and members of Boy Scout Troop 2 of Albany observe the traditional Dutch scrubbing of the streets on ... «Albany Times Union, May 14»
10
2 Columbus School Principals Suing After Losing Jobs In Data …
2 Columbus School Principals Suing After Losing Jobs In Data Scrubbing ... Fourteen people tied to the data-scrubbing scheme have either resigned or been ... «10TV, Mar 14»

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