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Rubble vs Detritus - What's the difference?

rubble | detritus |

As nouns the difference between rubble and detritus

is that rubble is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry while detritus is detritus.

rubble

English

Noun

  • The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
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  • (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
    • (Lyell)
  • (UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
    • (Simmonds)

    Derived terms

    * reduce to rubble * rubblestone * rubblework

    Related terms

    * rubbish

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    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