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Macadam vs Detritus - What's the difference?

macadam | detritus |

As a proper noun macadam

is .

As a noun detritus is

detritus.

macadam

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
  • (US, dated, countable) Any road or street

    • Related terms

    * (materials) asphalt, brick, cobbles, gravel, tar * (features and construction techniques) crown, crowning, dusting, paving, rolled, subgrade * (equipment and tools) bulldozer, dump truck, grader, pan, roller, sheepfooter, steamroller * (road surface types) cobblestone, dirt, gravel, hardtop, tarmac, tarmacadam * (vias) highway, road, street

    Verb

  • To cover or surface with macadam.

    • See also

    * asphalt * English eponyms

    detritus

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia detritus)
  • (countable, chiefly, geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
  • (biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
  • debris or fragments of disintegrated material
    • 2001'. "But of course: no clutter. No newspapers, no renegade scraps of domestic '''detritus , no rubber bands, paper clips, coupons, pens or pencils, notebooks, magazines. No knives. Where were the knives?" — Chip Kidd. ''The Cheese Monkeys

    Derived terms

    * detrital * detritivore