Industrial vs Ratten - What's the difference?
industrial | ratten |
Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
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, title= Produced by such industry.
Used by such industry.
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, title=Internal Combustion, chapter=2 Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
Massive in scale or quantity.
Employed as manpower by such industry.
(of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.
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, title= (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
An employee in industry
(business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
(finance) A bond or stock issued by such company
industrial music
(obsolete, Northern England) To sabotage machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute, particularly the tools of a workman who went against the union.
* 1947 , Ivor John Carnegie Brown,
* 1867 , Report Presented to the Trades Unions Commissioners by the Examiners Appointed to Inquire Into Acts of Intimidation, Outrage, Or Wrong Alleged to Have Been Promoted, Encouraged, Or Connived at by Trades Unions in the Town of Sheffield, Great Britain. . G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1867.
As adjectives the difference between industrial and ratten
is that industrial is of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing while ratten is rotten.As a noun industrial
is an employee in industry.industrial
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Adjective
(en adjective)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
citation, passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
Antonyms
* nonindustrial * unindustrialDerived terms
* industrialism * industrialize * industrially * industrialness * industrial arts * industrial espionage * industrial production * industrial scale * industrial school * industrial strength * industrial tribunal * industrial unionNoun
(en noun)- I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.
Derived terms
* Dow Jones Industrial Averageratten
English
Verb
(en verb)Say The Word, p 100:
- ...derived from the sabot or shoe beneath railway lines. The saboteur was thus a remover of metal shoes, a train-wrecker. I must leave it at that. Meanwhile why not restore ratten to its old place in the Trade Union vocabulary, that is if, in these times of scant, we must endure any such wanton hindrance of the works?
p. 225:
- Did you also employ them to ratten people if they had broken any rules of your society, for instance, by having too many apprentices?
