Rot vs Roc - What's the difference?
rot | roc |
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
* Alexander Pope
To decline in function or utility.
To deteriorate in any way.
* Macaulay
* Thackeray
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
* Milton
Verbal nonsense.
An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
* The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.
As a noun rot
is meat roasted on a spit.As a proper noun roc is
, cognate of english rocco.rot
English
Verb
(rott)- Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
- I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
- Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
- Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
- to rot vegetable fiber
Derived terms
* potter's rotNoun
(en noun)- His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
Synonyms
* (nonsense) See alsoAnagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) English intransitive verbs ----roc
English
Alternative forms
* roche * rok * rukhNoun
(en noun)- "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc', and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the ' roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;