Rot vs Rubble - What's the difference?
rot | rubble |
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.
The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
As nouns the difference between rot and rubble
is that rot is meat roasted on a spit while rubble is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.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 ----rubble
English
Noun
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
- (Lyell)
- (Simmonds)