different between lube vs aube

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?ob, IPA^(key): /lu?b/
• Rhymes: -u?b

Etymology 1

Clipping of lubricant

Noun

lube (countable and uncountable, plural lubes)

1. (informal) lubricant

Derived terms

• lube job
• lubeless

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of lubricate

Verb

lube (third-person singular simple present lubes, present participle lubing, simple past and past participle lubed)

1. (transitive, informal) to lubricate

Translations

Anagrams

• Blue, Buel, blue

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lub?/, [?lub?]

Adjective

lube

1. inflection of luby:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu.b?/

Adjective

lube

1. inflection of luby:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b/

Noun

aube (plural aubes)

1. Obsolete form of alb.
   • 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest

     For washing eleven aubes and as many head-clothes , six

Anagrams

• Beau, beau

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ob/
• Homophone: aubes
• Hyphenation: aube
• Rhymes: -ob

Etymology 1

From Old French albe, from Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

1. dawn, sunrise, daybreak
2. beginning

Synonyms

• aurore f

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba.

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

1. (religion) alb

Etymology 3

Probably from Latin alapa (“blow, slap, smack”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

1. (technology) paddle, blade
2. vane (of windmill)
3. small plank

Synonyms

• (paddle): palette f
• (plank): planchette f

Anagrams

• beau

Further reading

• “aube” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).