Auto vs Rot - What's the difference?
auto | rot |
automatic
An automobile.
A .
A setting for automatic operation.
A writ.
An automatic gearbox / transmission.
A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
* Alexander Pope
To decline in function or utility.
To deteriorate in any way.
* Macaulay
* Thackeray
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
* Milton
Verbal nonsense.
As nouns the difference between auto and rot
is that auto is car while rot is meat roasted on a spit.auto
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , metanalyzed from (auto-) in words such as (automatic), (autopilot), and (automobile).Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (sense) automobile, car, motorcar; motor * (setting for automatic operation) automaticAntonyms
* (setting for automatic operation) manualDerived terms
* autorackSee also
* auto-Etymology 2
.See also
* (l)Anagrams
* ----rot
English
Verb
(rott)- Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
- I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
- Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
- Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
- to rot vegetable fiber
Derived terms
* potter's rotNoun
(en noun)- His cattle must of rot and murrain die.