Futile vs Rutile - What's the difference?
futile | rutile |
Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
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As an adjective futile
is incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.As a noun rutile is
the most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO2.futile
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Adjective
(en adjective)Shamrock Rovers 0-4 Tottenham, passage=Goals from Steven Pienaar, Andros Townsend, Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane sealed the win, but Rubin Kazan's 1-1 draw against PAOK Salonika rendered Spurs' efforts futile .}}