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WendyWu Posted 21 years ago
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Rub off, rub out; grind off;grind away

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0No obvious differences within each of the two pairs except for the meanings of the adverbs, Wendy, without further context. 02br 02br 00'Rub off' is generally to remove a surface accretion by friction. 02br 00'Rub out' is to do so in order to obliterate, and also has the slang meaning of 'kill'.

— Mister Micawber

  • 0No obvious differences within each of the two pairs except for the meanings of the adverbs, Wendy, without further context.
  • 02br 02br 00'Rub off' is generally to remove a surface accretion by friction.
  • 02br 00'Rub out' is to do so in order to obliterate, and also has the slang meaning of 'kill'.
  • 02br 02br 00'Grind off' is to remove a surface accretion with some sort of an abrasive tool.
  • 02br 00'Grind away' means to continue to do so, and also has the slang meaning of 'continue with a chore'.
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0No obvious differences within each of the two pairs except for the meanings of the adverbs, Wendy, without further context. 02br
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00'Rub off' is generally to remove a surface accretion by friction. 02br
00'Rub out' is to do so in order to obliterate, and also has the slang meaning of 'kill'. 02br
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00'Grind off' is to remove a surface a
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0 Mister Micawber, I have no context. I wanna to know the differences just because I want to discribe something in my work, but i really don't know which word should I use. 02br
00I don't know whether you know something about shoemaking. Once we want to make a shoe, we need a last(something has the function like a foot for a shoe in some sense). 02br
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0 Hello Wendy, 02br
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00If you are wanting to make the last a little less pointed, then you might use "grind down" or "grind off" 02br
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00"Please grind down the point a little" 02br
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00"Please grind off the point a little" 02br
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0 Hi Abbie, 02br
00Maybe grind off is more suitable than grind down? 02br
00Yes, I see buff has the meaning of polish, as I just can search it in the PowerWord, I'm not sure whether it has such a meaning. you see, PowerWord is very limited. 02br
00Do you know something about shoemaking? If so, wish you can give me an explaination to the sentense. Maybe it wil
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0"Last is a little point, need to make a little more oblique". 02br
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00If this is the sentence that you wish to interpret, I think that Abbie gave a pretty good description. The customer is presumably saying that the angle of (the toe of?) the last is too pointed (acute), and wants you to grind it down so that it is more 'oblique' (obtuse?). The customer may have used
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0 The only thing I know about shoemaking is that you use a "last" as a form to make the shoe. 0-
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0Yes, my understanding for this sentence is as similar as Mr. Micawber's, but one thing need to be clarified is that it is oblique, not obtuse, because the customer also gave us a shoe for outsole reference, the angle of that shoe is very oblique.05002br
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00Mr. Micawber and Abbie, thank you so much! 02br
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