Debris vs Dregs - What's the difference?
debris | dregs | Synonyms |
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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, title= The ruins of a broken-down structure
(geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
(collectively ) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
(figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.
Dregs is a synonym of debris.
As nouns the difference between debris and dregs
is that debris is rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed while dregs is (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.debris
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(-)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, […].}}
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*dregs
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Noun
(en-plural noun)- the dregs of society