sightseeing
rubber-necking | going about to look at places of interest |
| rubber stamp | routine authorization of an action without questions |
rubber boa
tow-headed snake
Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
arctic
galosh
golosh
rubber
gumshoe | a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow |
car tire
automobile tire
auto tire
rubber tire | a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel |
condom
rubber safety safe prophylactic | contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse |
handstamp
rubber stamp | a stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand |
latex paint
latex
rubber-base paint | a water-base paint that has a latex binder |
methadone
methadone hydrochloride
methadon
dolophine hydrochloride
fixer
synthetic heroin | synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming, used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction |
rubber band
elastic band
elastic | a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together |
rubber boot
gum boot | a high boot made of rubber |
| rubber bullet | a bullet made of hard rubber, designed for use in crowd control |
rubber eraser
rubber pencil eraser | an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber), commonly mounted at one end of a pencil |
synthesis
synthetic thinking | the combination of ideas into a complex whole |
| synthetic cubism | the late phase of cubism |
Indiaubber tree
Indiaubber plant
Indiaubber fig
rubber plant
Assam rubber
Ficus elastica | large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant, source of Assam rubber |
mistletoe fig
mistletoe rubber plant
Ficus diversifolia
Ficus deltoidea | shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe |
Hevea
rubber tree
genus Hevea | small genus of South American trees yielding latex, rubber trees are usually cultivated in plantations |
Para rubber tree
caoutchouc tree
Hevea brasiliensis | deciduous tree of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers having leathery leaves and fragrant yellow-white flowers, it yields a milky juice that is the chief source of commercial rubber |
| Rufous rubber cup | a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae |
| rubber cement | an adhesive made by dissolving unvulcanized rubber in a solvent like benzene or naphtha |
| foam rubber | spongy rubber, made by introducing air bubbles before vulcanization and used for cushioning or upholstery |
synthetic
synthetic substance | a compound made artificially by chemical reactions |
| synthetic resin | a resin having a polymeric structure, especially a resin in the raw state, used chiefly in plastics |
man-made fiber
synthetic fiber | fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes |
rubber
natural rubber
India rubber
gum elastic
caoutchouc | an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products |
| crepe rubber | crude natural rubber, used mainly for shoe soles |
| rubber synthetic rubber | any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber |
| silicone rubber | made from silicone elastomers, retains flexibility resilience and tensile strength over a wide temperature range |
| cold rubber | a rubber made at low temperatures ( degrees Centigrade) which is tougher than conventional rubber and is often used in car tires |
hard rubber
vulcanite
ebonite | a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber |
| Para rubber | a type of natural rubber obtained from tropical South American trees |
buna
buna rubber | made by polymerizing butadiene |
| butyl rubber | synthetic rubber made by polymerizing isobutylene |
rubberize
rubberise
rubber | coat or impregnate with rubber, rubberize fabric for rain coats |
| synthetic synthetical | of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts, `all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition |
| synthetic | systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words |
| synthetic synthetical | involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis, limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology- P.S.Welch |
| synthetic | not genuine or natural, counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic- George Will |
rubber
no-good | returned for lack of funds, a rubber check, a no-good check |
celluloid
synthetic | artificial as if portrayed in a film, a novel with flat celluloid characters |
man-made
semisynthetic
synthetic | not of natural origin, prepared or made artificially, man-made fibers, synthetic leather |