Debris vs Initialism - What's the difference?
debris | initialism |
Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=December 21, author=David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli and Sarah Maslin Nir, title=On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now, work=New York Times
, 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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The ruins of a broken-down structure
(geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
As nouns the difference between debris and initialism
is that debris is while initialism is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.debris
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*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
*initialism
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Noun
(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)- BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.