scrubber
IPA: skrˈʌbɝ
noun
- A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
- A device that removes impurities from gases.
- (historical) A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
- (Australia) Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.
- (Britain, slang) A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
- (Britain, slang) A dirty or unhygienic person.
- (graphical user interface, audio, video) A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.
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Examples of "scrubber" in Sentences
- A machine called a scrubber cleans gases of contaminants.
- Charbroil, but instead uses a nested scrubber, which is very much like a scouring pad or a
- General features include easy to use spreadsheeting, do not call scrubber, import and export call list.
- The scrubber is a vessel containing in its lower part water, W, supplied by a pipe, and having an overflow.
- Ants have armoured skin, which when added as fragments and shattered carapaces, imparts all the goodness of a skin scrubber.
- The scrubber, which is still in development now, it means that removing one ton of carbon a day is likely just the beginning because it ` s still in development.
- This case involves the installation of a wet flue gas desulphurization system (also known as a "scrubber") at Merrimack Station, an electricity generating facility in Bow owned by the appellee, Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH).
- That ... again, that project is on time and on budget and then we have a flue gas scrubber, which is going to be done about the same time, fall 2009. $34 million project, we have $13 million to date and will spend $6 million in the fourth quarter and $15 million in 2009.
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