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Debris vs Ruble - What's the difference?

debris | ruble |

As nouns the difference between debris and ruble

is that debris is rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed while ruble is the monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: копе́йка, Belarusian: капе́йка). The Russian ruble's new symbol is ₽.

debris

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

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  • 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 citation
  • , 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= 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, […].}}
  • The ruins of a broken-down structure
  • (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
  • Anagrams

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    ruble

    English

    (wikipedia ruble)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (via French)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria equal to 100 kopeks (Russian: ). The Russian ruble's new symbol is .
  • Alternative forms

    * rouble * rubl

    See also

    * BYR

    Anagrams

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