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rom | rot |

As a proper noun rom

is rome.

As a noun rot is

meat roasted on a spit.

rom

English

(wikipedia ROM)

Acronym

(Acronym) (head)
  • (electronics, computing) read-only memory.
  • (video games) A software image of read-only memory (as of a game cartridge) used in emulation.
  • (medical) range of motion
  • (finance) Return on Margin.
  • (estimating and purchasing) Rough order of magnitude. An informal cost or price estimate provided for planning and budgeting purposes only, typically expected to be only 75% accurate.

    • Derived terms

    * PROM * EPROM * EEPROM

    Related terms

    * RAM * flash memory

    See also

    * WORM

    Anagrams

    * * *

    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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