Stubble vs Rubble - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between stubble and rubble

is that stubble is short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face while rubble is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

(wikipedia stubble)

(en-noun)

short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.

the short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

* five o'clock shadow * stub * stump

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)

* reduce to rubble * rubblestone * rubblework

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