RUB may stand for
- RUB, Russian ruble ISO 4217 currency code
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- Royal University of Bhutan
Rub may refer to:
- The Kuliak languages of Uganda
- Spice rub, consisting of spices blended together to season and flavor raw pork, beef, chicken, fish, and wild game before grilling
- Rub or liniment, a medicated topical preparation for application to the skin
- Massage
- Rubbing, an art technique
- Rub (syrup), a kind of syrup extracted from dates used widely in Libya
Famous quotes containing the word rub:
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)