See rub off on on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for rub off on meaning in All languages combined (2.3kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "rubs off on",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "rubbing off on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "rubbed off on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "rubbed off on",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*",
"head": "rub off on"
},
"expansion": "rub off on (third-person singular simple present rubs off on, present participle rubbing off on, simple past and past participle rubbed off on)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The hippie way of life seems to have rubbed off on him, as he's a flower power aficionado.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2023 October 11, David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno, “Caroline Ellison Says She and Sam Bankman-Fried Lied for Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "Over time, she explained, those beliefs started rubbing off on her.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be acquired by or transferred to (someone) as a result of regular exposure."
],
"id": "en-rub_off_on-en-verb-7OjmjOca",
"links": [
[
"behavior",
"behavior"
],
[
"belief",
"belief"
],
[
"acquire",
"acquire"
],
[
"transfer",
"transfer"
],
[
"exposure",
"exposure"
]
],
"qualifier": "beliefs",
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, transitive, of behavior, beliefs, etc.) To be acquired by or transferred to (someone) as a result of regular exposure."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of behavior"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"transitive",
"usually"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(of behavior, etc.) to be acquired by or transferred to (someone)",
"word": "abfärben"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-rub off on.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/En-au-rub_off_on.ogg/En-au-rub_off_on.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/En-au-rub_off_on.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "rub off on"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "rubs off on",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "rubbing off on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "rubbed off on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "rubbed off on",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*",
"head": "rub off on"
},
"expansion": "rub off on (third-person singular simple present rubs off on, present participle rubbing off on, simple past and past participle rubbed off on)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The hippie way of life seems to have rubbed off on him, as he's a flower power aficionado.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2023 October 11, David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno, “Caroline Ellison Says She and Sam Bankman-Fried Lied for Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "Over time, she explained, those beliefs started rubbing off on her.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be acquired by or transferred to (someone) as a result of regular exposure."
],
"links": [
[
"behavior",
"behavior"
],
[
"belief",
"belief"
],
[
"acquire",
"acquire"
],
[
"transfer",
"transfer"
],
[
"exposure",
"exposure"
]
],
"qualifier": "beliefs",
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, transitive, of behavior, beliefs, etc.) To be acquired by or transferred to (someone) as a result of regular exposure."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of behavior"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"transitive",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-rub off on.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/En-au-rub_off_on.ogg/En-au-rub_off_on.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/En-au-rub_off_on.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(of behavior, etc.) to be acquired by or transferred to (someone)",
"word": "abfärben"
}
],
"word": "rub off on"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.