Debris vs Burr - What's the difference?
debris | burr |
Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
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, passage=His neighbors were still ripping out debris . But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding. }}
Litter and discarded refuse.
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(geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
* Tomlinson
A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
The earlobe.
The knot at the bottom of an antler.
(obsolete) A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
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As nouns the difference between debris and burr
is that debris is rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed while burr is a sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.As a verb burr is
to pronounce with a rolled "r".As a proper noun Burr is
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English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(-)citation
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
Anagrams
*burr
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) burre, perhaps from (etyl) , from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)- The graver, in ploughing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs .
Synonyms
* (kind of seed pod) sticker; burDerived terms
* deburrEtymology 2
Onomatopoeia, influenced by bur.Etymology 3
Origin uncertain.Noun
(en noun)- And there kyng Arthur smote syr mordred vnder the shelde wyth a foyne of his spere thorughoute the body more than a fadom / And whan syr Mordred felte that he had hys dethes wounde / He thryst hym self wyth the myght that he had vp to the bur of kynge Arthurs spere / And right so he smote his fader Arthur wyth his swerde holden in bothe his handes