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Erosion vs Rot - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between erosion and rot

is that erosion is the result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face while rot is the process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

As a verb rot is

to suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

erosion

English

(wikipedia erosion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) The result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
  • * 2012 , (George Monbiot), (Guardian Weekly) , August 24, p.20
    • Even second-generation in the ground.
  • (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
  • (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
  • (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in (morphological image processing) from which all other morphological operations are derived.
  • (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
  • (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.

    • Derived terms

    * erosive * erosional * sheet erosion * splash erosion

    rot

    English

    Verb

    (rott)
  • To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
  • To decline in function or utility.
  • To deteriorate in any way.
    • I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
  • * Macaulay
    • Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
  • * Thackeray
    • Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
  • To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
    • to rot vegetable fiber
  • To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

    • Derived terms

    * potter's rot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
  • Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
  • * Milton
    • His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
  • Verbal nonsense.

    • Synonyms

    * (nonsense) See also

    Anagrams

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